Google's acquisition of Panoramio, a location based photo service, adds yet another dimension to its Maps product that neatly dovetails into the new street level views it just released (see Google Maps Hits the Streets). Rain City Guide reminds us... more...
PHILADELPHIA -- A handful of real estate reporters had the chance to test drive a mobile real estate toy while walking around Philadelphia today. It was Smarter Agent's GPS mobile real estate application, which enables you to stand on the... more...
So what kind of jobs are available at Countrywide Financial Corp. as it hires 2,000 new sales people in mortgage, and fills thousands of other openings company wide (see Inman News story)? CountrywideCareers.com lists 9,648 openings (although a spokesman told... more...
Minutes from the May 9 meeting of the Federal Reserve's Open Market Committee, released today: Energy and commodity prices keep going up, along with wages, so we are still worried enough about inflation that we're not going to cut interest... more...
Trulia Hindsight is the latest web mashup launched by the real estate search engine Trulia, which allows you to see how cities or towns grow over time. Other mashups from the Trulia team have included Truliaholic and plotornot.com. The map... more...
Today at the Where 2.0 conference, Google announced it has rolled out city level street view in several metropolitan areas, including San Francisco (e.g., a search for "94111"). Unlike Microsoft Virtual Earth's Birds Eye photos, which are shot from low... more...
Can you really sell ultra-luxury property for-sale-by-owner? Ask any full-service luxury agent this question and the answer will probably be a resounding, "No." Yesterday, however, USA Today reported that Ron Baron, founder of the Baron Funds investment company, paid a... more...
Writing about mortgage lending, the stuff that comes into my e-mail inbox never ceases to amaze me. I used to LOVE this cartoon when I was a kid (but no, I am not planning to see the forthcoming Disney movie).... more...
Remember during the dot-com boom, when good news about unemployment could torpedo stock prices? Investors would panic when unemployment data showed fewer people were out of work, because they were worried that the Fed would hike interest rates to keep... more...
Despite a cooling housing market, the market for real estate television shows seems to be getting hotter and hotter, or so says USATODAY.com anyway. Bought & Sold, Designed to Sell, Secrets That Sell, My First Home, Get It Sold are... more...
Zillow founder Rich Barton reports in the company's blog that there is a pending sale on his Seattle home. "I'm sure thousands of you have been following the saga of my attempts to sell my house in Seattle (OK, maybe... more...
"The standoff between buyers and sellers seems to have broadened into a standoff between the real estate industry and the media," writes fellow colleague Ron Roel, who worked as a reporter and editor at New York Newsday for 20+ years.... more...
Alan Yassky, a National Association of Realtors representative to Move Inc.'s board of directors (Move operates Realtor.com through a contract with NAR), put a new twist on the infamous and oft-cited speech delivered by Bill Chee in 1993 that has... more...
Add to the list of "unZillowables" that seem to complicate the task of automated valuations -- a past listing that, instead of a sale, produced a string of indictments and mortgage fraud convictions. The Zestimate for this 3,308 square foot,... more...
