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Zillow now producing local market reports
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Zillow will now release city-level market “snapshots” — one focused on homeownership and another on rentals — in 30 large metros the firm tracks, the company announced today. The reports, based on the Zillow Home Value Index and the Zillow Rent Index ...

Nimble: 'Relationship' management for the social media age
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Jon Ferrara, a co-founder of GoldMine, one of the first customer relationship management (CRM) platforms for small- and medium-sized businesses, is back with a new platform for the social media age. Ferrara launched Nimble in 2011 as a way for people ...

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Google ups the ante with new products, updates
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Executives with search engine giant Google recently rolled out a plethora of product updates at the company's annual I/O conference in San Francisco. If you've got four hours to kill, check out the recorded keynote. If not, here's the breakdown and ...

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Make your website welcoming to foreign buyers
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When it comes to reaching international buyers, you already have an advantage. That's because, as an Inman reader, you are probably more digitally savvy than the average agent. This is important because international property buyers tend to rely ...

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Corcoran: Tumblr an 'incredibly effective' marketing tool
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With more than 115,000 subscribers, Corcoran's “10 a.m. Special” Tumblr page won out among last week's #madREskillz entries. To learn more about the blogging platform, we asked Corcoran's director of interactive product and marketing, Matthew Shadbolt ...

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Long Realty bakes VOW capability into new mobile app
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Tucson, Ariz.-based Long Realty has a sleek new consumer-facing mobile app for Android, iPhone and iPad that surfaces data from multiple listing services (MLS) including information typically reserved for agents like details about recently sold homes.

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Years of slow recovery, low rates lie ahead
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During the Inquisition, the first step in extracting a confession or recantation of heresy was to show the accused the instruments to be used in the next stage. A glance at tongs, or the rack, and many would sing on the spot. So it was this week. The ...

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Calculated Risk blogger agrees: 'We're in Nirvana for housing' [VIDEO]
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One of the first people to warn about homes becoming overvalued during the boom, finance and economics blogger Bill McBride, says housing's future is “so bright, (he's) gotta wear shades.” With household formation expected to pick up, and trends in ...

Survey reveals communities with low levels of tax compliance
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Are taxpayers in some parts of the country more honest than those in others? If you said yes, you'd be right. A recent nationwide survey of more than 3,300 self-employed taxpayers by the IRS National Taxpayer Advocate found few communities with high ...

Revestor emerges from 'Shark Tank' with fresh ideas
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It sounds like every entrepreneur's dream: You're invited to pitch your idea for a real estate tech startup on a nationally televised reality show, to a panel of judges that includes business luminaries like Barbara Corcoran and Mark Cuban. But then it ...

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More transparency and debate would only strengthen NAR
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Social media has changed everything — even the National Association of Realtors. And there isn't any way for NAR to take it back. I wasn't at NAR's midyear meeting in Washington, D.C., an annual event where the association's board of directors weighs ...

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Zoocasa moving to referral model
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Canadian property search portal Zoocasa is obtaining brokerage licenses in order to secure listings data, but instead of hiring its own agents the company will provide referrals to other brokers. Zoocasa relaunched today with listings in the Greater ...

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Taking a cue from Apple, brokerage builds real estate 'store'
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In a time when some brokers question the value of brick-and-mortar offices as technology allows their agents to work in the “cloud,” one brokerage has decided to go big, and build a real estate retail space at its office. Zilbert International Realty ...

Realogy picks 15 companies as finalists for innovation summit
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Real estate brokerage and franchise giant Realogy Holdings Corp. has selected 15 emerging technology companies from about 100 that applied to compete for a $25,000 cash prize at the Realogy FWD Innovation Summit. The companies selected to present ...

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Most @properties listings will feature interactive floor plans
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Real estate brokerage @properties will use interactive floor plans and high-resolution photos to market listings online at no additional charge to sellers on all homes listed at $500,000 or more. The Chicago-based brokerage said it plans to extend the ...

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Seller financing: an untapped resource for real estate agents
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While the residential real estate market is generally believed to be improving nationwide, some of the residual effects of the Great Recession still affect the ability of real estate agents to facilitate home sales. Emerging employment opportunities in ...

Tumblr acquisition may validate blogging site for business pros
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The posts are bursting with a colorful mixture of new media that includes clickable photos and graphics, embedded videos and invitations to follow Corcoran on Pinterest, YouTube and Foursquare. Highlighting the full range of content and social ...

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Are maps obliterating your visual branding efforts?
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Everyone wants to know where the house is, what the neighborhood is like, how far it is from stuff, and so on. A map is one of those crucial bits of information display that gives a wide variety of context about one of the things we assume people are ...

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NAR to help members meet 'Obamacare' health care mandate
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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — “Obamacare” — mandates that all Americans have health insurance or pay a penalty starting next year. Recognizing that many Realtors, as independent contractors and small-business owners, do not have ...

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Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate gains foothold in Idaho
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Realogy Holdings Corp. franchisor Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate is expanding into Idaho with the addition of brokerage 43° North Real Estate to its franchise network. The Boise-based brokerage company is now doing business as Better Homes ...

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