Real Estate Internet

Libel Lawsuits and Real Estate Bloggers

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Before I started Real Estate Blogging I had a political weblog. The battles there were epic compared to those on the real estate side as Conservatives and Liberals fought for the hearts and minds of the nations public. There [...]

23May2008 | Tom Royce | 7 comments | Continued

Failure and Success - Michael Jordon Commercial

This advertisement from Nike is so dead on. For agents and non agents, to be the best you have to be willing to fail publicly. As Michael Jordon said, “26 times I have been trusted to take the game winning shot and I have missed.”
Are you willing to step up and take the game winning [...]

14May2008 | Tom Royce | 1 comment | Continued

Congratulations To Zillow and Trulia - Webby 2008 Award Winners

Congratulations Zillow and Trulia for their victories in the Webby Awards For 2008. Both companies are leaders not just in the online real estate space but also showing other industries how to harness the web to change the playing field.
Press Release:
Hailed as the “Internet’s highest honor” by the New York Times, The Webby Awards is [...]

6May2008 | Tom Royce | 1 comment | Continued

Theres An Alligator In My Kitchen, What Am I Gonna Do?

My apologies to UB40 for the title, but this is not something you would want to see when you are hearing noises downstairs in the middle of the night.
An 8 foot alligator sitting in your kitchen who chased your cat into the house after pushing in the screen porch door. Florida living can be [...]

29Apr2008 | Tom Royce | 0 comments | Continued

Web Sites Triple in Size in Last 5 Years - Realtors Use That Bandwidth!

In the past if you developed websites you aimed not to alienate the dial up user and those with smaller monitors. Well with the new information out that websites have tripled in size since 2003 and the number of objects on a page doubling, don’t get hung up on those metrics anymore.

The size of [...]

28Apr2008 | Tom Royce | 0 comments | Continued

Google Calendar Target of Spammers?

If you are like me, Google Calendar has become a major part of your life. Our family all uses it and it has made scheduling issues much easier to deal with as my wife has her calendar, I have mine, and then we have the massive one with the boys schedules on it.
We really [...]

24Mar2008 | Tom Royce | 0 comments | Continued

Connecticut MLS Launches Public Portal - CTreal.com

The statewide MLS system for Connecticut has launched a new portal for the general public to search their listings. While it is not the most glamorous site, it is groundbreaking none the less. Instead of watching their franchise erode as almost all of the other MLS systems across the country are doing, they are proactively [...]

20Mar2008 | Tom Royce | 2 comments | Continued

Using Google Adwords to Drive Traffic? Slim Down and Save Money

If you are using Google Adwords to drive traffic to your real estate site it would make a great deal of sense to sit down with your web designer and slim down your page (send them this post as it will help them).
Google Adwords uses a quality score to determine how much you are [...]

17Mar2008 | Tom Royce | 2 comments | Continued

Internet Explorer 8 Coming To A Computer Near You

Microsoft has announced the Internet Explorer 8 Readiness Toolkit has been released.
Some of the new features include:

ActivitiesWebSlicesFavorites BarAutomatic Crash RecoveryImproved Phishing Filter

With real estate sales being so online dependent I would expect those forward thinking real estate agents and brokers to start working on innovations that will capitalize on these tools.

5Mar2008 | Tom Royce | 0 comments | Continued

The Age Gap Between Buyers and Real Estate Agents

The Wall Street Journal Development Blog has an interesting post on the age gap that is occurring between buyers and agents. The average age of real estate agents in the United States is 51 while the average buyer was 39.
Mostly this is a non issue and I was glossing over the post until I [...]

5Mar2008 | Tom Royce | 9 comments | Continued