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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This nugget from Pat Kitano of Transparent Real Estate:
“Facebook is the white pages,
Your blog is the yellow pages.”

There were more thoughts on why it’s important to be a part of the online conversation. With those of us who blog, that tends to be the central node of our informal social network. We do [...]

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Interesting tidbits and quotes are starting to come out of the real estate bloggers talking at Inman’s Bloggers Connect.
Finding Your Voice Panel

(more images on Flickr)

“It takes a while to find your voice, you have to write a little bit first before it really clicks.”
– Philip Ferrato, Editor, Curbed SF
“When someone asks a [...]

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It’s to easy for us technologists to get caught up in our technology, our blogs or our social networks. When we do, we often fail to remember that these are tools that are there to facilitate communication and build towards offline interaction, business and partnerships.
A bunch of us are converging on San Francisco in [...]

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I was able to get an advanced copy of Inman’s State of Real Estate Marketing 2007 report, which just became available on their website. It’s 50 page document on real estate marketing, based on a survey of 770 real estate professionals via their website. This means that it has a bent towards technology-focused [...]

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New York Times writer Robert Frank recently wrote a book about America’s wealthy class, Richistan: A Journey Through the American Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich. Two new websites have sprung up to service just that crowd, specifically catering to individuals looking for second homes.
Like many real estate web [...]

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