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Most Home bets on mobile MLS service Premium Content

By Matt Carter, Monday, March 9, 2009.

Most Home Corp. has reached an agreement to sell the loan origination software platform and client base of its subsidiary, Netupdate Inc., to Mortgagebot LLC, as part of a plan to raise money and grow its mobile listings service, Kurio.

Mequon, Wis.-based Mortgagebot will pay $600,000, and allow Most Home to keep $107,000 in Netupdate receivables it has billed or collected before closing, the companies said in a press release.  more...

Mobilizing the real estate office Premium Content

By Gilbert Mohtes-Chan, Monday, March 9, 2009.

It's no easy task shuttering 11 real estate offices in a year and a half. But RE/MAX Dolphin Real Estate did it -- and without shedding a single agent.

Instead, its brokers and agents grabbed their laptops, portable printers, BlackBerrys and even GPS devices and hit the road, often rendezvousing with clients in coffee shops, restaurants, homes and workplaces.  more...

Price index falls hardest in Phoenix, S.F.

By Inman News, Monday, March 9, 2009.

The price per square foot of homes fell in all of the 25 U.S. metro areas tracked in December compared to the same month last year, with the most extreme declines in Phoenix and San Francisco.

The metro areas included in the RPX Monthly Housing Market Report index, prepared by real estate data and analytics company Radar Logic Inc., dropped a collective 22 percent in December 2008 compared to December 2007.  more...