nestio Nestio unveils listing management platform for landlords

Nestio unveils listing management platform for landlords

Like many landlords, Copperwood Real Estate used to struggle to efficiently manage and distribute its listings. To populate its public-facing site, it would have to convert listing information that it maintained in a spreadsheet into code and insert ...
By Teke Wiggin | 13 hours ago
Aerial view of Vacaville, Calif., by Dcoetzee via Wikimedia Commons. Merger creates new Coldwell Banker franchise in Northern California

Merger creates new Coldwell Banker franchise in Northern California

Two leading Solano County, Calif., brokerages have merged and affiliated with franchisor Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC. The merger of Vacaville-based Kappel & Kappel Realty Inc. with Solano Gateway Realty Inc. in Fairfield beefs up Coldwell Ban...
By Inman News | Tuesday, June 18, 2013
For-sale listing image via Shutterstock. Imagining the real estate industry, 5 years out

Imagining the real estate industry, 5 years out

What will the real estate industry look like five years from now, and how can brokers and agents prepare for it? Leaders of four companies that have been at the forefront of change — Redfin, Trulia, Zillow and Move Inc. ......
By Inman News | Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Screen shot of 3-D interactive tour by Floored. Floored voted best real estate tech startup at Realogy summit

Floored voted best real estate tech startup at Realogy summit

Floored, which creates interactive 3-D floor plans that allow users to walk through a virtual recreation of an actual space, was voted the best real estate tech startup today at the Realogy FWD Innovation Summit, hosted at the real estate ......
By Teke Wiggin | Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Screen shot of MSN Real Estate's homepage showing Move-powered listing search. 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...
By Paul Hagey | Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Connecticut image via Shutterstock. 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...
By Inman News | Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Sample of custom property websites provided by Properties Online Inc. 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 ...
By Inman News | Tuesday, June 18, 2013
zillow_2_1 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 &...
By Paul Hagey | Tuesday, June 18, 2013
real estate tech startups meetup 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...
By Teke Wiggin | Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Minefield image via Shutterstock. ‘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...
By Ken Harney | Tuesday, June 18, 2013
carrington 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 ......
By Paul Hagey | Monday, June 17, 2013
Casual dress image via Shutterstock. 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 ......
By Bernice Ross | Monday, June 17, 2013
Turntable image via Shutterstock. 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...
By Gahlord Dewald | Monday, June 17, 2013
San Francisco image via Shutterstock. 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 ....
By Inman News | Monday, June 17, 2013