Real Estate Technology

HouseValues Lays Off 45, Was Active Rain The Big Bet To Save The Company?

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!When HouseValues invested 2.75 Million in Active Rain my first reaction is that they were buying eyeballs for their product.
The announcement 2 days later that HomeValues is laying off 45 and ditched their CFO makes me worried that there is [...]

24Jan2008 | Tom Royce | 0 comments | Continued

How The High Tech Home May Have Helped Create The Housing Boom

If you are wondering why so many new homes were built recently, it may be a by-product of the technology boom. Wired has an article that places the blame on the housing boom on techno-lust, but I just attribute that to the prism that they see the world through.
However, this paragraph is telling. According to [...]

26Dec2007 | Tom Royce | 1 comment | Continued

Internet Causes GMAC Real Estate To Close 15 Offices in Massachusetts and New Hampshire

GMAC Real Estate is on to something. They are closing 15 offices in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
Why you ask? Well, they announced that buyers are starting their searches on the internet and do not need to visit offices as often. By using the internet, buyers do not need to have an office nearby to [...]

15Dec2007 | Tom Royce | 3 comments | Continued

Newspaper Advertising Down, Online Advertising Growing, You Make The Call

Hey Real Estate agents and brokers, are you still having trouble kicking the newspaper advertising habit. Well, don’t be the last one throwing money into dark, grainy pictures and smudged type. It looks from the new numbers released that many are fleeing the newsprint to online.
So if your boss thinks that putting ads in [...]

28Nov2007 | Tom Royce | 6 comments | Continued

Great Primer for Real Estate Professional on Data Back Ups

Face it, we all could improve our data backup procedures. Fortunately, Brian Davis at Appraisal Scoop has done an amazing post on data backups for appraisers. The focus may be on appraisers and their needs, but the primer could be used for anyone in the real estate business.
Brian goes through the different online backup [...]

7Aug2007 | Tom Royce | 3 comments | Continued

Apartments.com and Yahoo Real Estate Join Forces

Apartments.com and Yahoo Real Estate signed an agreement to have Apartments.com as their featured apartment listing provider for the online service. The agreement brings over 3 million apartments into Yahoo Real Estate’s portfolio.
One thing I do like about Apartments.com approach is they do not have registration process to view the apartments. Many of the [...]

31Jul2007 | Tom Royce | 0 comments | Continued

Dubai Real Estate Institute To Develop Programs With USC

One thing about real estate in Dubai is they do not do things halfway. When they build their buildings the results are world class. Now to increase the level of real estate education, the Dubai Real Estate Institute has joined forces with the noted School of Planning and Development at the University of Southern California. [...]

31Jul2007 | Tom Royce | 1 comment | Continued

Burj Dubai Becomes World’s Tallest Building

Burj Dubai has officially become the world’s tallest building after passing the Taipei 101 at 1,680 feet. What once was a small trading town, Dubai is now the center of the universe for new and exotic construction.

Burj Dubai, a tower rising in the booming Gulf emirate, has become the tallest building in the world at [...]

21Jul2007 | Tom Royce | 2 comments | Continued

Terabitz Creates Digital Dashboard For Real Estate Transactions

Terabitz, new player in the online real estate world, is taking a new tact with it’s 10 million dollar financing package. The company has created a digital dashboard application to help manage all of the facets included in moving to a new home or apartment. Instead of being a one way data source, Terabitz is looking [...]

17Jul2007 | Tom Royce | 1 comment | Continued

Top 10 Tips For Photographing a Home For Sale

Selling a home these days means that it has to be marketed through the internet. And for the home to be sticky on the internet, photography is very important. The Los Angeles Times had a great post on photographing homes for the web. I have culled some of the best advice and added some of [...]

29May2007 | Tom Royce | 5 comments | Continued