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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 Blog
The [...]

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 [...]

First Zillow releases a new version of their web site.
Then Microsoft releases a new Virtual Earth (VE 3D in Firefox).
Then the a new Beta of Realtor.com is released.
Galen releases new ShackPrices features.
Ardell is using her Verizon EVDO card in Vegas, probably while playing the slots and sipping drinks with umbrellas in them.
Then I discover, Redfin [...]

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 [...]

ShackPrices - now with 100% more hearts. Limited time only. See site for details.

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 [...]

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. [...]

Search Engine Watch has a real estate search tool write up. It’s mostly links, but some of them haven’t been mentioned here. I like to think that our write ups are a little more coherent.
Not mentioned is the much improved (aesthetically) Redfin (even in the last week or two - take a look!) [...]

And with a title like that, I might just eat my words. There was an interesting story in New York Times story about FSBO yesterday. It describes a (ugly!) FSBO online service in Madison Wisconsin that has grown immensely over the past few years. I feel a little like a curmudgeon [...]