Posts Tagged ‘Google’
Posted by tblefko on November 23, 2009
Within the last two weeks, the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) unveiled its vision of a national property database called the REALTORS® Property Resource (RPR) that would be available to its membership starting in the second quarter of next year. After I watched NAR’s online presentation of the RPR the first thing I concluded (read my post here) was that they were going to build a national Multiple Listing Service (MLS) even though they stated numerous times during the presentation, “This is not a national MLS.” I didn’t buy their statement two weeks ago and I’m not buying it today. I wish they would just call a spade a spade and get on with it.
While the NAR and the oodles of MLS’s serving their membership haggle over how they’re going to tweak or preserve the status quo, Google is busy blowing up the old model and rewriting the rules of the game.
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Posted in Agents, Buyers, Consumers, Lancaster, Technology | Tagged: Google, Google Map, Google Streetview, Move, Multiple Listing Service (MLS), National Association of REALTORS, Realtors Property Resource (RPR), Search Engines, Trulia, Zillow | Leave a Comment »
Posted by tblefko on October 31, 2009
Google unveiled its latest innovation for real estate this past week and they crushed a 3-2 pitch in the bottom of the ninth into the upper deck! Every time Google tinkers around with its website, real estate people get a shiver of anxiety and this latest innovation is likely to give many within the industry a full-blown case of hives.
Since Google announced the ability to see lots of real estate listings directly on Google Maps back in July of this year, they’ve been working hard to make it even easier to use. They’ve added things like brand new high-resolution Street View imagery and detailed map data. Now they’re making Google Maps an even more useful tool for online real estate searching. Here are a couple of things you can look out for next time you visit their website:
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Posted in Agents, Buyers, Consumers, Sellers, Technology | Tagged: Agents, Buyers, Google, Google Map, Google Streetview, Moving, Real estate, Search Engines, Web Sites | Leave a Comment »
Posted by tblefko on August 15, 2009
more about “Social Media Revolution“, posted with vodpod
A couple of weeks ago I posted a video to this blog which showed the impact that social media is having on our society, and in particular, on the real estate business. Still aren’t buying into this phenomenon? Wake up and smell the coffee!
Posted in Agents, Technology | Tagged: Advertising, Flat World Knowledge, Google, Media, Newspapers, Real estate, Social media, Social Networks, Society and Culture, Statistics, Twitter, Video | Leave a Comment »
Posted by tblefko on July 13, 2009
Finding it hard to keep up in today’s fast-paced world? Are you waiting for this inconvenient ‘Recession’ thingy to pass so you can get back to normal? Think again.
(WARNING: This video will make you rethink everything.)
Now go out there and make things happen. Happy Monday!
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Posted by tblefko on July 7, 2009
Image via CrunchBase
Google just upped the ante in the competitive field of real estate listing search engines. In a move that certainly had a few established players (i.e. REALTOR.com, Zillow, Tulia, et.al.) do a double take, Google Maps incorporated a new tool into its site that links buyers and renters to available properties. The feature was only launched in Australia and New Zealand yesterday, but I understand that selected metropolitan areas in the United States are already able to utilize the service.
The following is an instructional video on how to utilize the service:
So what’s the big deal?
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Posted by tblefko on June 2, 2009
Image courtesy of Flickr
When I first got into the real estate business year’s ago, occasionally I would run into a seller that told me to sell their home quickly at the highest price but with some of the following caveats:
My response was always the same; “Are you out of your mind?” Actually, I conveyed my message a little differently but the point was always the same; “Mr. & Mrs. Seller, in order for me to get your home sold in the shortest period of time at the highest price, I need all the tools available to me. That includes . . . . “ At the end of the day, I would get the listing, use all the tools and eventually sell the home.
I can understand this line of reasoning from a seller (hmmm – not really) but from the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR), I’m floored!
Posted in Agents, Legislation, Sellers | Tagged: Advertising, Agents, Google, IDX Feed, National Association of REALTORS, Sellers, Web Sites | 2 Comments »
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