Howard Hanna invests $1M-plus to enhance real estate listings

Howard Hanna invests $1M-plus to enhance real estate listings

The nation's fourth-largest real estate brokerage, family-owned Howard Hanna Real Estate Services, says it will promote its listings on Realtor.com and Zillow because extensive... Read story »
Google, Facebook, privacy and digital identities

Google, Facebook, privacy and digital identities

As you are no doubt aware, Google is consolidating its privacy policies across all services in its platform. This means instead of 60 disparate privacy policies there will be... Read story »
NAR's Realtor.org gets 'responsive'

NAR's Realtor.org gets 'responsive'

I hosted a conversation with Mark Lesswing and Chad Curry from the National Association of Realtors during a session at the Real Estate Connect event last month in New York... Read story »
Your very own 'Magic Kingdom' ... for a price

Your very own 'Magic Kingdom' ... for a price

ORLANDO, Fla. -- You say you're thoroughly smitten with all things Disney? You say you've been known to joke that you'd practically live at Walt Disney World if you could? Got... Read story »
(VIDEO) The future of tablets

(VIDEO) The future of tablets

(Flickr/Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com) Jason Baptiste, co-founder and CEO of OnSwipe, sees a bright future in touch-screen computing. At Real Estate Connect NYC ’12 he talked... Read story »
(VIDEO) The nail in the QR code coffin

(VIDEO) The nail in the QR code coffin

QR codes are ugly. Forget arguing about if they are cool or useful or if they work, above all else they are ugly. I spoke with Claire Boonstra, founder of Layar, about why QR... Read story »
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Top 10 real estate websites in December

For the sixth month in a row, Yahoo Real Estate was the most popular real estate-related website in December, according to the latest rankings from Web metrics firm Experian Hitwise.

Zillow once again took the No. 2 spot on the list, after dropping to third place in November, and Realtor.com dipped to the No. 3 spot. Yahoo Real Estate gained considerable ground in December, capturing 8.27 percent of visits to the real estate category, compared to 7.02 percent the month before.

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The residences of U.S. presidents

By SUSAN GALLEYMORE

Forty-three men have served a total of 56 terms in the Oval Office. With Presidents Day around the corner -- on Monday, Feb. 20 this year -- and an election ahead, let's take a look at what this nation's top commanders in chief over the past 40 years have called home.

President Barack Obama

The Obamas purchased a 6,199-square-foot, two-story single-family home at 5046 S. Greenwood Ave., in Chicago's Kenwood neighborhood, in June 2005 for $1.65 million --...  more...



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Stop Wasting Time On Facebook and Twitter Thanks To Nutshell Mail

Could you be more efficient with your time on Facebook and Twitter?

As our social connections have grown to be borderline impossible to manage, new solutions are emerging to help us clean up the mess.

Nutshell, a free tool offered by Constant Contact for anyone to use, will email you a daily summary of your social media streams at the time of your choosing.

 

Think about the way Google Alerts works. Instead of constantly Googling yourself, Google delivers anything that...  more...



Rise above the noise with Facebook Groups

Facebook is noisy.

Since the recent changes to Facebook’s news feed, many businesses have reported a significant decline in the impressions and engagement they are getting from their posts.

The chart below represents the findings from a one-month study by EdgeRank Checker. The study concluded that the average page reported a decline in impressions, likes and comments.

In addition, every business’s customers are connecting with more and more people everyday, AND to make matters worse...  more...



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A new solution for syndicating real estate listings

So a lot has happened over the past couple weeks.

Below I lay out a few things I believe to be true. They are all debatable, of course, and may, in the end, prove to be completely wrong. Be that as it may, my overall approach inclines toward practicality.

There's a problem between brokers and online publishers, and both parties stand to get hurt if it's not solved.

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More at stake than money in foreclosure

I agree with this article 100 percent. You can add Charlotte, N.C., and the banks we have here to the list of useless banks to work with.

There's nothing worse than having multiple offers at or above what the bank representatives have previously agreed to and then having them foreclose because the departments weren't communicating -- or when they decide, for no apparent reason, that they will not accept an offer they had previously agreed to and are just going to raise the price, despite confirming in...  more...



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Updated Realtor.com app: search for REOs, price-reduced homes

Realtor.com has updated its app for Apple mobile devices to allow users in some markets to search for recently sold homes and listings with price reductions, and to identify listings that have been through the foreclosure process.

Realtor.com operator Move Inc. said it plans to launch a new "HyperSocial" agent search tool to connect consumers with participating agents based on shared connections during the second...  more...



ZipRealty signs 6th brokerage to referral program  Premium Content

ZipRealty Inc. says it's now providing leads and customer relationship management tools to Jacksonville, Fla.-based Coldwell Banker Vanguard Realty, bringing the number of brokerages participating in the "Powered by Zip" program to six.

The Powered by Zip program has allowed the Emeryville, Calif.-based brokerage to continue to display Internet Data Exchange (IDX)...  more...



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$8.5M affords mountain views at Jackson Hole, Wyo., estate

Encompassed by both National Park and National Forest, the aptly-named Paintbrush Ranch displays perfectly framed mountain vistas through broad picture windows. This five-acre property sits at just the right distance from the famous Teton Range, capturing the jagged peaks in their entirety, from nearly every room in the house.

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