Real Estate Blogs

Casey Serin’s Site Iamfacingforeclosure.com Shutdown

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The site that will symbolize the excesses of the last housing boom and the excesses it can breed, iamfacingforeclosure.com, has shut it’s doors.

I have not written much about the travail of Casey Serin and his very public entry […]

31May2007 | Tom Royce | 1 comment | Continued

Why The Heck Do You Want To Blog?

I get that question fairly often. Mainly I am an information junkie and this allows me to feed my habit while making a little bit of money. Hopefully I can share the information I find in such a way that you enjoy it, find it useful, and come back on occasion.
I did see an […]

30Apr2007 | Tom Royce | 2 comments | Continued

Redfin CEO and CTO Interviewed By Robert Scoble on “Shaking Up Real Estate Markets”

There is an interesting interview by Robert Scoble of Podtech with Glenn Kelman and Micheal Young of RedFin. They topic of the conversation is using technology to shake up the real estate industry.

20Mar2007 | Tom Royce | 1 comment | Continued

Designing Websites To Sell A Home - Clean It Up To Be Effective

Using the internet to sell a home has been a great advantage for those who got on the boat early. The often sited statistic that 80 percent of home purchases originate online is very telling and often told. But now is the time to get a step ahead of the competition if you are a […]

14Mar2007 | Tom Royce | 6 comments | Continued

NaturallySpeaking software to post online — an experiment

So tonight I am using NaturallySpeaking software to create this post.
I just installed the software, had tried it many years ago with mixed set success, but wanted to give it another try. I went to…

12Feb2007 | Tom Royce | 4 comments | Continued

International Real Estate Blogs Taking Off

The phenonmemon that we are participating in blogging about real estate in the United States is taking off internationally. The Herald Tribune has an article out talking about the rise in internet content sites such as blogs, forums, and podcasts becoming more of a mainstay in the real estate community.
If you think about it, […]

19Jan2007 | Tom Royce | 0 comments | Continued

Heads Up To Bloggers: Wordpress Exploit Hitting Blogs - Update is Now Out

If you are using Wordpress as you blogging engine, and not wordpress.com but self hosting your site, there is an update that needs to be applied ASAP.
There is a exploit running around where your site could be redirected to anothers site, and since most of you are realtors, this could be damaging to your […]

15Jan2007 | Tom Royce | 2 comments | Continued

Flipper Nation - A Flippin’ Fight

Must See TV for us real estate geeks.

There’s more where this came from at: FlipperNation.com If you cannot view this video, you can check it out at YouTube instead.

10Jan2007 | Tom Royce | 1 comment | Continued

Inside Baseball: Yahoo! Buys MyBlogLog

This is a post for the other bloggers, it looks like our newest toy, mybloglog that you see on nearly everyones page these days has been bought by Yahoo. Just wanted you to know.

There once was a time when bloggers basically lived in silos of independent existence. Hunched over your keyboard, you checked your […]

9Jan2007 | Tom Royce | 0 comments | Continued