Technology
Redfin took its latest stab at the hyperlocal landscape late last week with the unveiling of “Offer Insights,” a new feature on its website that highlights the observations and experiences of Redfin agents on specific real estate
Zillow has taken a major step away from its core business model with the new “Zillow Digs,” a platform that, as AGBeat put it, is like a lovechild between Pinterest, Houzz and Tumblr, but with a fine splash of house porn
By Peter Ricci Well, it’s finally happening – after years of users grappling with Facebook’s inferior search function, the mighty social media giant is finally launching a new search apparatus: the Graph
By Peter Ricci Android, or iOS? Along with Bears or Packers, Duke or North Carolina, or Yankees or Red Sox, the Android v iOS rivalry is shaping up to be one of the more contentious in the modern era.
By Peter Ricci As we’re reported on numerous occasions, the Internet is one widely-used resource, with 90 percent of homebuyers beginning their home search online. However, all homebuyers behave differently when home shopping, and how they response to that
By Tiffany Kjellander Let me set the scene: my husband, Jeff, and I are at our annual convention, where he is an iconic member of the executive team, officially titled VP of Technology and
By Peter Ricci The Internet has produced an interesting evolution in modern shopping behaviors. Because shopping on the Web is so exceedingly easy, it’s become quite common for consumers to find something they want to buy, and then sleep
By Peter Ricci The Internet is a broad, multifaceted medium, one with many uses; however, its most impressive feature, arguably, is that of Internet video, and the way that Web users can stream video free-of-charge to millions upon millions
By Peter Ricci The first two parts to our continuing series on “Google Real Estate” dealt with Internet search behaviors from consumers, and all the data we cited in those articles dealt with an increasingly antiquated assumption – that
By Peter Ricci We’ll start the second part of our “Google real estate” series with an uncontroversial claim – the Internet and real estate are highly intertwined entities. Nine out of 10 home searches today start on the Web,
By Peter Ricci Last week, we reported on a rather startling statistic – that real estate-related searches on Google had increased by 253 percent from 2008 to the present
By Peter Ricci Things have been looking up for the housing market heading into 2013, and we’re not just saying that because shadow inventory is falling, home sales at their highest mark in years and consumer confidence in the housing
By Peter Ricci Real estate-related searches on Google have catapulted 253 percent since 2008, according to a joint study by Google and the National Association of Realtors (NAR). In addition, the report, titled The Digital House Hunt: Consumer and Market
By Peter Ricci In our second story in our series on YouTube marketing, we looked at how real estate agents could harness the fabulously popular medium and successfully tailor it to their real estate business, highlighting the core requirements
By Peter Ricci We all dream about appearing prominently in Google searches, about being present on that first page and generating thousands upon thousands of clicks for our site; the sad reality is, that’s probably never going to happen.
By Peter Ricci As we highlighted in our first story on YouTube marketing, both YouTube and Internet video offer huge potential for real estate agents and the marketing of their businesses. Internet video traffic is estimated to make up
