Rain City Guide

I noticed that Robbie has been playing around with the back-end of the home search tool he has developed for Rain City Guide, and it reminded me that I’ve been wanting to highlight one of the cool feature. The search tool allows you to sort your listings based on the price per square foot…
And [...]

The ShackPrices’ blog (run by RCG contributor Galen) just announced some slick new features for their site:

Permalinks. Makes it possible to email/link to specific results
Address Search. Easier to zoom into a specific property
Condo Information. Not just homes anymore…

So what is ShackPrices? ShackPrices is a King County specific Home Price Evaluation site. [...]

It was wonderful to have some quality time with the Trulia last night and I had a blast chatting about real estate search with them.
Sami and Kelly were great sports and the group ended up spending about an hour and a half discussing Trulia’s business plan and how others (like RCG!) might plug into [...]

I just spoke with Sami Inkinen and Kelly Roark of Trulia. They are currently making the rounds in Seattle, and we all agreed that it would be fun to spend some time talking “real estate technology” while they are in town! (Why aren’t they in Seattle yet???)
However, knowing that I’m not the only person [...]

In case you haven’t dropped by our home search tool recently, we’ve made some improvements. Changes include…
Market Analysis Tool Improvements
We thought it would be helpful, if you could get a second opinion when you get an estimate. So, we’ve made arrangements with Zillow to use their Zestimate web services on our Market Analysis page. That [...]

In a recent post, Galen said “And no, it’s not what Windermere or ZipRealty already do: their sites s-u-c-k compared to true consumer-oriented sites like Amazon.com and Google.”.
Now, comparing nearly any web site to Amazon or Google isn’t a fair comparission. Google & Amazon have 1) many of the best software engineers on the planet [...]

I have recently been enlightened on how grossly inadequate many of the home viewing sites are and how misleading they can be.
Maybe I should have known this before, but frankly, those sites rarely come into play in my everyday life. I use the mls and clients use me. I truly haven’t considered until recently how [...]

There have been some interesting conversation around the web on Zillow’s business model…

Will it really just be ad-supported?
Will they list homes at some point (or at least their own subset of homes)?

But I’d argue that it is way too early to know their business model. In an interesting interview with Inman News (The [...]

OK…Got that off my ample chest.
I know you guys just love the technological advances, but some days I just want to kick it all back to the 80’s. If you “kids” can say “I Want MY MTV!”. then why can’t I say “I Want My MLS BOOK!!!”
You guessed it. The mls is DOWN! [...]

About a week ago I noted that the Zillow Blog added Rain City Guide to its sidepanel and that I hadn’t found out about both the Redfin Blog or the HouseValues blog because they hadn’t spread any link love. As Rain City Guide hasn’t done much to deserve traffic from either site, I didn’t really [...]