You like Turkey and Christmas more than real estate November 19, 2007
Seriously. Real estate agents have known this forever: people aren’t very interested in buying or selling a home during the holidays. Do you really want to put in an offer and then manage it from your in-laws house in Florida?
Search volumes for Real Estate, Christmas Day, and Thanksgiving Day. Christmas and Thanksgiving alone (without “day”) [...]
Estately True Areas: Search Beyond the Box July 25, 2007
We just released Estately True Areas which lets people search “beyond the box” and inside the neighborhood, city, or zip code they’re interested in. The area outline and listings in the area are the only results displayed on the map. You can also use it to search for homes within a mile or two from [...]
More updates from Google real estate May 29, 2007
Maplets now let you search for real estate via the traditional Google maps interface. More from Google on the subject. (Get your listings into Google Base to be included). Joel has wondered aloud about Google Real Estate in the past.
If you’re a developer, you can build your own maplet on Google maps, but you’re giving [...]
A look behind the Shack, Part 1: Speed Kills March 19, 2007
Really, in the world of the web, slow speed kills. And most people only think about the length of time it takes a website to load when it is taking eons to show up. For static sites, meeting the magic four second page load time isn’t too hard, but for sites with lots of “dynamic [...]
Start searching on ShackPrices.com December 13, 2006
As of midnight last night, ShackPrices.com is live. We have a post up on the ShackBlog about what you’ll find on our new site, but I’ll summarize it for our readers here:
What is ShackPrices?
ShackPrices.com is a snappy Google maps-based real estate search site that makes finding a home better by augmenting each real estate listing [...]
Our Home is Now Listed! June 17, 2006
Our Home on Zearch
Our Home on Redfin
Our Home on Zillow
And despite the fact that we may not have Ardell’s magic open house touch, we are showing it on Sunday between 12 and 3PM as described in the open house listing on Trumba.
Update:
Our Home on Craigslist
Our Home on Google Base
More Info on RCG
I also [...]
Duvall - Single Family Home - $350,000 April 26, 2006
WOW! Robbie’s new super duper Zearch site is very, very COOL! But let’s put it to the test. I checked my listing in Duvall and I didn’t have a light blue dot. Seems to me a single family home for $350,000 should have a light blue dot, no? Now I’ll do a post on it [...]
RCG’s Zearch is Released! April 25, 2006
Robbie has just released what may be the most addictive home search tool I have every used!
Search Tool Codename: Zearch!
Some obvious highlights include:
Dynamic map of color-coed listings
Geocoded Rain City Posts
I know the search is addictive because earlier today I showed this to a friend who is in the market to buy a [...]
The YES, NO, MAYBE tour for relocating buyers April 14, 2006
I invented this back when I was doing a lot of relocation work for Coldwell Banker on the East Coast. I thought Dustin and Anna might like to try it when looking at homes in California. It comes in very handy when you are touring a lot of homes the first day in a new [...]
Why Google Base Matters March 22, 2006
If you are building a real estate search site and you didn’t hear the warning shot fired by Google today, then you don’t really deserve to be in business much longer. While just about anyone building a real estate search tool should be concerned, I’m going to focus this article on my friends over at [...]
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