Last week LotandHome.com launched a new listing site focused on new homes and lots, but with a twist. Anyone can register with the site and get a “Rebate Voucher.” Bring the voucher to the builder and get a “cash back equaling 1% of the purchase price”. Doesn’t sound like a bad idea (who doesn’t like [...]

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A new real estate listing site called BeatYouThere.com launched yesterday (inman) and it’s adding a social twist. BeatYouThere users can search for other users (buyers, sellers, investors, etc), rate other users, comment on properties (and users), and connect with friends. It’s a novel idea, however while navigating the site I found some of [...]

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Another StreetView Launch:
Today, RealEstate.com launches property searches with integrated StreetView (from Inman).

Choices:
If you are developing a Real Estate 2.0 site then you have a hard choice ahead. Do you integrate Google’s StreetView or Microsoft’s Birds EyeView? Hey, at least we have choices.

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Product Launches:
Last week, Trulia was the first to announced the integration of Google’s Street View (FOREM). Today, DotHomes also announces the integration of Google’s Street View (see below).
“DotHomes.com (DotHomes), the real estate search engine, today announced that it has implemented Google’s Street View to its US listings. This application adds to the already extensive [...]

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Question: What are you guys doing? We haven’t heard much from eppraisal/realtythoughts in a while.
Answer: Other than visiting real estate Agents across the U.S., we have been working on tweaking our technology and getting ready for the launch of hoodeo (www.hoodeo.com).
Question: Hold up, what’s hoodeo?
Answer: Right now, I can’t say much other than it [...]

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This past weekend Quicken launched Quizzle.com as “a place that gives you simple understanding of your home and money.” Basically, they have incorporated your credit score from Experian, a custom home value estimate, mortgage info, and other tools into a web 2.0 style interface.
However, Quizzle goes a bit further and calculates an overall [...]

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There are quite a few new real estate listing sites popping up; it seems like this year is becoming the year of the listings. And it’s an all out race to get the most listings and the most visitors.
There are sites that:
-get listings from broker feeds
-use spiders to crawl listing sites
-invite consumers/realtors to [...]

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I have been swamped the last few weeks and haven’t had the time to look into new Real Estate companies. However, I wanted to take a moment to congratulate Erik Hersman on his efforts for Africa and feature a product that is not in the real estate space.
Last week, Erik launched a new map based [...]

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I maybe late on this, but have you seen the new Reply.com? The site is gearing up for a complete rebrand and dropping their custom valuation model. The new site pulls data from cyberhomes and zillow for home values and oodle for property listings.

“ConnectWithLife.com, a division of Reply! Inc., is the portal for consumers who [...]

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Today, new real estate social networking site iwantanoffer.com officially launches to the public. The site launches complete with the ability to add friends, create a public profile, upload a walkthrough video, schedule a visit, showcase testimonials, and make an offer! The site surprisingly has a lot of features and I am sure that I am [...]

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