Toronto Real Estate Musing:
Episode 151 of the daily Toronto Real Estate Musing video blog. George O’Neill already proudly announced the Inaugural Social Media Marketing Summit for Real Estate to be held in Toronto on November 30, 2009. Today he outlines the seventh reason to attend. For additional information and to register see www.SocialMediaMark (Read More)
The Notorious R.O.B.:
Your SEM Dollars At Work!From the Search Engine Land site comes news (h/t: Duke Long, @dukelong) that Google has built out what amounts to the start of a national real estate search website:The real estate listing place pages include property information, photos, map placement, Street View imagery and functionality, nearby (Read More)
Zillow® Blog:
In looking at our blog posts from October, the top 5 most-viewed celebrity home blog posts on Zillow ranged from a multi-millionaire’s mansion to Whitney Houston’s circular pad.1. “Ira Rennert’s mansion is largest home in U.S.”See Ira Rennert’s home (photo below)See more Sagaponack, NY real estate.2. “Haunted Houses in Holl (Read More)
Future of Real Estate Marketing:
I was getting on a plane this morning so I was only able to tweet this news. Brian Boero at 1000Watt Consulting sums it up best.Now, today, search engine land reports that Google has taken this one step further to include a unique page for every listing that includes photos, a map (including Street View) property details, d (Read More)
Toronto Real Estate and Neighbourhoods Blog | Move Smartly:
Media Roundup Real Estate NewsThree views on a housing bubble (Globe and Mail) Why the housing market is on fire even in a recession (Globe and Mail) Canada's housing rebound sparks fear of bubble (Globe and Mail) New home buyers take risks with low mortgage rate (Globe and Mail) Why soaring home prices fail to budge inflat (Read More)
Property Portal Watch:
Google Maps’ Australian team have just announced another round of upgrades to the Google Maps real estate search, this time focusing on keyword use and listing information.The Google Maps blog explains that the introduction of new search technology will bring up listing results for searches that use phrases such as “real es (Read More)
Zillow® Blog:
We’re pleased to announce that Boston.com, the website of the Boston Globe, is now part of the Zillow API program and is using it to power their recent home sales functionality on their real estate landing page.Though our recent sales data is part of the Local Market Explorer WP Plug-in, Boston.com is the first member of th (Read More)
Toronto Real Estate Musing:
Episode 150 of the daily Toronto Real Estate Musing video blog. George O’Neill already proudly announced the Inaugural Social Media Marketing Summit for Real Estate to be held in Toronto on November 30, 2009. Today he outlines the sixth reason to attend. For additional information and to register see www.SocialMediaMarket (Read More)
The Notorious R.O.B.:
Earlier this week, Reggie Nicolay (@ReggieRPR), the Director of Social Media for the REALTORS Property Resource, LLC, wrote:I happen to agree 100%. Also, a commenter on one of my earlier posts by the name of Kris Goodfellow wrote:Rob,I’ve got to say, that there is much in the way of speculation and little in the way of “fa (Read More)
Property Portal Watch:
There are only 2 days left to enter the draw for one of 15 free tickets to the Inman News’ Real Estate Connect conference in New York from the 13th – 15th January 2010. To be in the draw for these free tickets, all you have to do is register to attend the Property Portal Watch Workshop on Tuesday 12th January – the day be (Read More)
Toronto Real Estate Musing:
Episode 149 of the daily Toronto Real Estate Musing video blog. George O’Neill already proudly announced the Inaugural Social Media Marketing Summit for Real Estate to be held in Toronto on November 30, 2009. Today he outlines the fifth reason to attend. For additional information and to register see www.SocialMediaMarket (Read More)
Toronto Real Estate and Neighbourhoods Blog | Move Smartly:
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate NewsFrom the Toronto Real Estaet Board:In the first two weeks of November, Greater Toronto REALTORS® reported 3,666 sales – up 84 per cent compared to the first two weeks of November 2008. The average price for these transactions was up 10 per cent year-over-year to $415,066.Increased int (Read More)
Future of Real Estate Marketing:
Altos Research has released four new WordPress Plugins that make it dead simple to go deep in to the numbers and create data rich local market blogs.Altos is among many real estate data providers out there, but is unique in that many of its core products cater to individual Realtors rather than large institutional or corpor (Read More)