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Move, MSN renew content-sharing agreement
Move, MSN renew content-sharing agreement
Realtor.com operator Move Inc. has renewed a content-sharing agreement with MSN that allows consumers to access Move’s property listings and related information from MSN Real Estate, the sixth-most popular real estate site in the U.S. Under th...
Coldwell Banker expands in Connecticut
Coldwell Banker expands in Connecticut
Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage has acquired the assets of Century 21 Greengarden Realty Inc., a 63-agent brokerage in Bridgeport, Conn. Century 21 Greengarden Realty’s Bridgeport office will merge into the Coldwell Banker Residential Bro...
Properties Online will build websites for all Century 21 listings
Properties Online will build websites for all Century 21 listings
Realogy Holdings Corp. franchisor Century 21 Real Estate LLC has hired Santa Rosa, Calif.-based Properties Online Inc. to build custom property websites for every listing that appears on the company’s website. The unique property websites will ...
Zillow launches collaborative home search tool
Zillow launches collaborative home search tool
Zillow Inc. has launched a mobile-enabled collaborative home search and shopping tool, Agentfolio, that’s aimed at buy-side agents and their clients, allowing them to search, comment on, review and share homes they are interested in. The tool &...
Real estate tech startup gathering to be held in NYC tomorrow
Real estate tech startup gathering to be held in NYC tomorrow
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story stated that the Meetup would take place tonight. In fact, it will take place tomorrow. In an effort to foster cross-pollination between real estate tech entrepreneurs, monthly Meetups are being held in ven...
‘Disparate impact’ doctrine troubling property owners, mortgage lenders
‘Disparate impact’ doctrine troubling property owners, mortgage lenders
Two federal lawsuits brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission last week spotlights an issue that is getting increasing attention from home mortgage lenders, rental property owners, local governments, and now the U.S. Supreme Court: R...
Carrington Real Estate expands into Colorado, Michigan
Carrington Real Estate expands into Colorado, Michigan
Carrington Real Estate Services LLC has added brokerage offices in Colorado and Michigan, bringing the number of states where it has agents on the ground to ......
Be the go-to luxury specialist in your market
Be the go-to luxury specialist in your market
Do you have what it takes to be the agent who represents the most luxurious properties in your marketplace? While taking classes can help you be better prepared to represent luxury clients, the real key to your success results from ......
Don’t be led astray by ‘turntable metrics’
Don’t be led astray by ‘turntable metrics’
I was listening to Alec Baldwin’s “Here’s the Thing” podcast the other day. It’s a great podcast in a conversational interview style. Baldwin was interviewing Billy Joel. Aside from Baldwin’s generally good-natured interview style, this o...
9 more companies announced for Start-Up Alley
9 more companies announced for Start-Up Alley
Inman News has announced nine more innovative companies that will be exhibiting in Start-Up Alley at Real Estate Connect San Francisco July 10-12. For 17 years, Real Estate Connect has brought together the most innovative minds in the industry for ....
Realtor.com to display sold listings data in Chicago, Boston, SF
Realtor.com to display sold listings data in Chicago, Boston, SF
Realtor.com operator Move Inc. announced today it will be able to show consumers in the Chicago, Boston and San Francisco markets sold listings data — including who represented the buyer and seller — thanks to agreements with three multip...
Zillow launches national TV ad campaign
Zillow launches national TV ad campaign
Zillow announced its first national TV campaign, “Find Your Way Home,” with two spots in 30- and 60-second versions that will air, beginning today, on cable channels HGTV, CNN, USA, A&E and Lifetime. The Seattle-based company said it ...
Apartable pulls back curtain on landlords’ management histories
Apartable pulls back curtain on landlords’ management histories
Purportedly marking a step forward for data aggregation in the public interest, New York rental listing site Apartable has launched a feature that offers records-based profiles of apartment buildings across the city, pulling the curtain back on landl...
‘Feast and Feeds,’ framed keys, cartoons and other #madREskillz
‘Feast and Feeds,’ framed keys, cartoons and other #madREskillz
Though Gahlord Dewald and Matthew Shadbolt may not be thrilled about it, branded urinal cakes resurfaced in the latest stream of #madREskillz entries. And this time the contributor wasn’t joking: Real estate agent Missy Bentley said she deploys...