Rain City Guide

… at Real Estate Connect!
A huge congratulation goes out ot long-time rain city guide contributor Galen Ward for continuing to innovate with the real estate search site Estately!

A huge congratulations goes out to Robbie! He has been an extremely valuable member of the RCG community and I only hope we can keep him interested in real estate (especially since he runs the backend of my wife’s MLS search site!).

After a Wacky Wednesday, I thought it might be time to return to real estate technology…
ShackPrices adds mass transit to their listing search and Greg continues to be impressed… (so am I)
USA Today provides an idea for a potential update to ShackPrices… What if Galen included the emotional map of each area?
Speaking of [...]

to announce that Sellsius has launched!
Check it out at: Sellsius Real Estate
Congrats to both Rudy and Joe!

Galen of Shackprices (and a frequent RCG contributor!) just announced some new features on Shackprices, including feeds for your saved homes and/or saved searches…

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 [...]

I was recently inspired by Joel Burslem’s, House Hunting On the Go blog posting. A lot of folks have voiced their desire for having MLS search tools designed for their mobile devices. Since I had some spare time last weekend, I went ahead and designed a mobile version of Real Property Associates’ web site. If [...]

Recently, the Center for Realtor Technology and Jim Duncan’s Real Central VA had blog posts on the desire to have MLSs’ add another column to their schema that indicated the broadband access status of a property. I think this is an idea whose time has been a long time coming. When I moved from my [...]

Nathan of nPost just did a great interview with Galen on Shackprices… Lots of gold including some indication of Galen’s vision for the future for Shackprices!

What is your long-term plan for ShackPrices?
I would really like ShackPrices to be a national real-estate search website. Our goal is to make it for anyone in America to [...]

I will start with a caveat. I am a owner in a real estate development company and I am not primarily shopping homes for clients, but instead buying properties to develop and build. That being said, you may think I have nothing but critiques for any other real estate company… not true! Dustin and I [...]