ActiveRain is a social network and blogging platform for real estate professionals. They started up last summer, and have cranked their way up to almost 45,000 registered users. That’s A LOT of traction… and fast!
Well, Matt Heaton and Jonathan Washburn have rolled out an advertising platform for their system. For a minimum [...]

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Just out through our eppraisal.com Labs, eppraisal Mobile is an easy way to access property valuations while on the road. Simply text an address to 972-413-9622 or to values@eppraisal.com (in the subject line), and eppraisal.com will respond with an estimated value range of the property.
By texting the street address, city and state, eppraisal.com [...]

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I’ve never been a big proponent of property specific domains for selling a piece of property. In most markets it doesn’t seem to make sense. However, after thinking about it for a while I came up with a few reasons why I think selling a piece of real estate using a property-specific URL [...]

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Welcome to the 54th Carnival of Real Estate. There were a number of really good entries this week, so thanks for submitting. I decided to pare the number down to the 6 that I found the most interesting and entertaining.

Jonathan Dalton reflects on the state of the industry. In What Have We Taught Our Clients?, [...]

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[Preface: All the normal disclaimers about using sites like compete.com, Alexa or Quantcast to get trending data…]
Regardless, it’s still enjoyable to watch the trending continue upwards for eppraisal.com. We’ve had a lot more room to grow than the others, true, but we’re starting to catch up. The great part is that our burn [...]

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Most real estate markets are soft right now, some are down, and a few are up. Of course, this means that it’s a perfect time to be a buyer. With that thought in mind, here are some tools that real estate investors can use to determine whether or not to buy a property, [...]

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I tend to take a lot of pictures at conferences, and this one has proved no different. If you find any pictures that you’d like to print, use in blog posts, whatever – please feel free. I take these pictures for everyone, not just myself.

Again, you can use any of these images for [...]

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Dale Stinton, National Association of Realtors (NAR) CEO, spoke here at Inman Connect about their recent 900 person board meeting. In that meeting they came away with 13 “exciting initiatives” (time will tell if that’s a prophetic number…) that they were going to do.

Interesting tidbits:

NAR wants to play directly with the consumer
Raising [...]

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Incredibly cool video from Trulia showing how and where people search for homes.

Real Estate Video by – Real Estate Blogger

Every dot on the map is a search on Trulia.com across the US and each line denotes the likelihood that consumers who search here are also likely to search there. It’s sort of like [...]

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Matt Heaton and Caleb Mardini handed out the Project Blogger awards, put together by Active Rain and Inman. It’s where prominent real estate bloggers took a real estate agent new to the blogosphere under their wings for 4 months.
Congrats to Mary Pope-Handy of Live in Los Gatos and her mentor, Frances Flynn [...]

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