By: Jeff Tomlin Builder/Architect Vol.18, No.8 Download PDF
lore Magazine Series of Live Broadcasts Discusses Major Issues in the Real Estate Industry lore Magazine, a magazine devoted to profiling fascinating individuals in the residential real estate industry, has launched a new and compelling series of interviews called “lore Live.” lore Magazine, currently distributed to top agents and leading brokers, is thrilled about the [...]
By Glenn Roberts Jr.Inman News Part 3: Future of MLS: Full speed ahead There is more to a multiple listing service than warehousing data. MLSs are marketplaces for showcasing information about properties, including pricing and property amenities. They are cooperatives that provide neutral ground for industry competitors to work together, make offers of compensation and share [...]
By Jessica SweseyInman News Part 2: Future of MLS: Full speed ahead Consumer-facing multiple listing service Web sites — once taboo and controversial in some markets — are gaining interest again as MLSs scramble to define their value and role in future real estate markets. About 300 MLSs throughout the country currently have consumer-facing Web sites [...]
Jay Thompson Interview – Part 3 Is 95% of a real estate sales professionals business attributed to online social media significant? From his overall web presence (blog, a website or referral from an online associate,) Jay gets 10-12 contacts or a each day from his online presence. Of course they may be unqualified at that [...]
Jay Thompson Interview – Part 2 In this segment, Jay continues talking about his use of social media tools from the early days of ActiveRain and how he spends his day; from the first cup of coffee throughout the business day. He is either blogging, using email, checking his social network tuning his web presence [...]
Jay Thompson Interview – Part 1 Jay Thompson / PhoenixRealEstateGuy.com is a blogging icon in the Arizona real estate social media world. His investment in using blogging and social media as virtually his only form of marketing is very much the model of the agent of the future – what I call the Agent2.0™. I've [...]
Inman News Mortgage Fraud Blog, vFlyer among other category winners SAN FRANCISCO — The craigslist online community in a slight twist from past years received a special Inman Innovator Award for "Innovator of the Year" during Inman News' Real Estate Connect conference in San Francisco this week. The Innovator Awards honor forward-thinking technologies, Web services, [...]
by Michael WurzerInman Blog Inman Blog writes today that the Realogy deal with Yahoo! Real Estate doesn’t knock Prudential out of the picture, instead Yahoo! has created (and Realogy apparently agreed t0) a separate “classifieds” section of their search and Prudential still gets the “Homes for Sale” section. The upshot: you can’t search both Prudential [...]