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Real Estately on Rails

By Robbie

Looks like our friend Galen has been busy…. In case you haven’t heard, ShackPrices has been rebranded Estately. With a new name, a new logo and a more publicized business model, it appears this old Shack has been retired. Here’s what the ole RE.net blog-o-rama has posted thus far… Bloodhound Blog The Real Estate Bloggers John Cook’s Venture... »

Homepages.com – Now less bad

By Robbie

I was reading an article on HouseValues on the Motely Fool. I discovered they relaunched their site recently. Anyway, here’s a quick rundown of the things I noticed… They are now using MS Virtual Earth instead of their old flash map I like how they integrated “Home Buying”, “Home Selling”, “Loans” into tabs onto one site Home... »

Where’s Dogbert when you need him?

By Robbie

Before Reba posted her article on the upcoming House Values layoffs, I recently ran across an interesting article about HouseValues on MSN Investor. It was basically a press release from Zacks Investment Research that stated HouseValues (SOLD) made their list of the top 5 stocks to sell now. Needless to say, this is not a glowing recommendation. Also during... »

HouseValues lays off 60 employees locally

By Reba Haas

Hmmmm, the Seattle Times article in today’s business section talks about HouseValues reducing staff because they’re moving out of selling leads to mortgage brokers and they had also overestimated where they’d be financially at this time on top of the fact that sites like Zillow.com have taken over part of their target site user.... »

Is HouseValues really gaining traction or are they just churning agents?

By Reba Haas

I don’t know how many of you on this site have dealt with HouseValues as one of their subscribers but I saw some recent postings on the RE/MAX International message board (RE/MAX agents only) where they were getting hammered by agents for what they saw as predatory practices, lies, and now combative collections processes.... »

10 Great Conversations

By Dustin

Just for fun, I started recording notes on real estate conversations I enjoy following and I decided that when the list hit ten, I’d hit publish: David Smith has a great (no wining allowed) article about the housing bubble. I only wish David interacted with the real estate blogging community a little more... »

Corporate Blogs – Yes please!

By Robbie

Dustin’s comments in his last blog post got me thinking (which is never a good thing). Dustin said “You just set my blogging efforts at Move back by a year or so”. To which I reply, “I hope not! You don’t have that much time!” One of the cool good things that has happened recently is... »

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