• Home
  • About
  • Contact

28

Apr

Now Get Realty Thoughts by Email!

Posted by admin  Published in Realty News, Saris Technologies, Technology

Feedburner, a company dedicated to creating way for bloggers to get their feeds out, has recently released a feature that allows blog readers to sign up for blog articles via email. So, if you’d rather not navigate your way to Realty Thoughts to see if there is a new posting, you can now be [...]

Continue reading...

no comment

27

Apr

Blog Search Engines

Posted by admin  Published in Real Estate Investors, Realty News, Technology

A lot of times you can find yourself looking for real estate information about a particular area online using traditional search engines like Yahoo and Google. However, sometimes you need to find pertinent information that is also recent – an area of search which traditional search engins lag in. This is where blog [...]

Continue reading...

no comment

26

Apr

Real Estate Commissions Under Pressure

Posted by admin  Published in Real Estate Agents, Realty News

(Via NPR)
Economist Steven Levitt (Freakonomics author – and also a great blogger) talks to Renee Montagne about the future of real estate agents. Levitt says their standard six-percent commission may become a thing of the past. The Internet is putting pressure on the fees that agents have become accustomed to.
Listen to it [...]

Continue reading...

no comment

26

Apr

Why Is the Web Like Real Estate?

Posted by admin  Published in Marketing, Real Estate Agents, Realty News, Technology

Answer: Location, Location, Location.
Greg Miller, President of MarketcomPR, outlines the following 5 things that those interested in marketing their business on the web should understand:

Know what you’re buying. Web marketing is a seller’s market right now, with lots of “trust me” promises.
Prices are going up. You can buy guaranteed first-page placement with sponsored [...]

Continue reading...

1 comment

25

Apr

Why We Need Two-Way Communication

Posted by admin  Published in Saris Technologies, Technology

At Saris we strive to keep an open line of communication up with those who use our products. Why is that important? For a number of reasons actually, reasons that benefit both us and our users.
First, because we’re so close to the building of our software, we sometimes can’t see what the the users see. [...]

Continue reading...

no comment

24

Apr

A National MLS

Posted by admin  Published in Real Estate Agents, Realty News, Technology

It’s bound to happen sometime. Brendan King, via Inman, talks about it. An excerpt:
Realtors clearly favor a national or some form of consolidated MLS, at least at a state level, according to the recent National Association of Realtors’ 2006 MLS Technology Survey. The survey also highlighted a few reasons why, including:

The expanding market [...]

Continue reading...

no comment

21

Apr

Real Estate and Vertical Search

Posted by admin  Published in Agent Tools, Marketing, Products, Realty News, Technology

The real estate industry has been a “late bloomer” in the vertical search arena. Unlike their general-purpose cousins, such as the ones run by Google and Yahoo, vertical search engines contain information in their indexes about a specific topic. Vertical search is characterized by companies like Kayak and Expedia in travel, Shopping.com and [...]

Continue reading...

no comment

12

Apr

Realty Thoughts: Really

Posted by admin  Published in Products, Random Thoughts, Realty News, Saris Technologies, Technology

We’re the Saris team. We have quietly been building web-based applications for the real estate market for almost 5 years, and felt it was time to share our thoughts and insights on the technology and knowledge that we’ve built up over those years. This is our blog, our opinions and thoughts on what’s [...]

Continue reading...

no comment

    Enter your email address:

    Delivered by FeedBurner


Realty Thoughts RSS Feed


eppraisal - your first step in real estate

Realty AppMap

Enter an address and zip code below to get a property eppraisal.

Street Address:

Zip:


powered by eppraisal.com

Search

Categories

  • Agent Tools (38)
  • Appraisal (1)
  • Blogging (23)
  • Carnival (2)
  • Conference (11)
  • ConnectNY (4)
  • connectsf (20)
  • Design (5)
  • eppraisal (18)
  • Ideas (3)
  • inman (25)
  • inspector (1)
  • Investment Tools (6)
  • Maps (12)
  • Marketing (33)
  • NAR (3)
  • NARdiGras (2)
  • Products (22)
  • Random Thoughts (22)
  • real estate (62)
  • Real Estate Agents (55)
  • Real Estate Investors (12)
  • Realty News (124)
  • Saris Technologies (10)
  • social media (1)
  • Technology (96)
  • tedglobal2007 (1)
  • Trends (3)
  • Video (5)

Archives

  • January 2009 (1)
  • December 2008 (2)
  • November 2008 (1)
  • October 2008 (2)
  • June 2008 (1)
  • May 2008 (1)
  • April 2008 (3)
  • February 2008 (1)
  • January 2008 (3)
  • December 2007 (1)
  • November 2007 (4)
  • October 2007 (2)
  • September 2007 (1)
  • August 2007 (12)
  • July 2007 (6)
  • June 2007 (7)
  • May 2007 (11)
  • April 2007 (7)
  • March 2007 (5)
  • February 2007 (5)
  • January 2007 (12)
  • December 2006 (6)
  • November 2006 (7)
  • October 2006 (8)
  • September 2006 (5)
  • August 2006 (7)
  • July 2006 (14)
  • June 2006 (3)
  • May 2006 (14)
  • April 2006 (8)

Blogroll

  • Mike’s Corner
  • 360 Digest
  • Alto Research Blog
  • Avalon Real Estate – Orlando
  • Bigger Pockets Blog
  • Bloodhound Blog
  • Central FL Real Estate Happenings
  • Condo Metropolis
  • Curbed
  • Easy Listings – Canada
  • eppraisal ZipAds
  • eppraisal.com
  • Estate of Things - consumer focused real estate blog (also by the eppraisal team)
  • Every Kid Deserves a Yard
  • Geek Estate Blog
  • House Blogs
  • Inman TV
  • Larry’s Take on Cocoa Beach
  • Matrix
  • MCT Realty (espanol)
  • Nubricks
  • Photography for Real Estate
  • Rain City Guide
  • Real Central VA
  • Real Estate 2.x
  • Real Estate Blog Pro
  • Real Estate Tomato
  • Realty Blogging
  • REBlogGirl
  • Redfin Blog
  • Roofable: Orlando’s Real Estate News
  • Sellsius Blog
  • Tech for Real Estate
  • The Future of Real Estate Marketing
  • The X Broker
  • Three Oceans
  • Tom’s Citrus County Real Estate Blog
  • Totally Florida
  • Transparent Real Estate
  • Triple Mint
  • Trulia Blog
  • US Condo Exchange (FL)
  • Voxury Populi
  • Zillow Blog

Meta

  • Main Entries Rss
  • Comments Rss
April 2006
M T W T F S S
    May »
 12
3456789
10111213141516
17181920212223
24252627282930

Recent Post

  • Bank of America to Modify $100 Billion in loans in 2009
  • The Carnival of Real Estate #120
  • Delicious for Real Estate: Dwellicious
  • Listings and Social Networks with iList
  • Why REALTORS® need to get iPhone equipped.
  • What to do when you’re out of business cards
  • New home listing site launches (with rebates)
  • [I'll] BeatYouThere.com
  • More StreetViews
  • It’s all about the view.

Recent Comments

  • Carnival of Real Estate #120 | Zill… in The Carnival of Real Estate #120
  • Patrick Duffy in The Carnival of Real Estate #120
  • CoRE #120 - | Carnival of Real Esta… in The Carnival of Real Estate #120
  • Michael Anderson in The Carnival of Real Estate #120
  • Michael Anderson in The Carnival of Real Estate #120
  • Kevin Sandridge in The Carnival of Real Estate #120
  • Dustin in The Carnival of Real Estate #120
  • ARDELL in The Carnival of Real Estate #120
  • davewoolsey.com » Blog Archiv… in Delicious for Real Estate: Dwellicious
  • Realty Thoughts » Post Topic » De… in Delicious for Real Estate: Dwellicious
© 2007 Realty Thoughts
Valid XHTML | Valid CSS 3.0