Congratulations to the team at Trulia for their exceptional accomplishments in 2009 62.3 million unique visitors year-to-date Visits up 45% year-over-year Page views per visit up 105% year-over-year Property views up 130% year-over-year Trulia Voices activity doubled year-over-year Nearly 1 million consumer inquiries sent to real estate professionals Ranked Top 5 Real Estate site in Hitwise (November 2009)
As a business consultant, we are rarely found in the conference sessions - but we did have 41 meetings and we caught up with many industry friends. Word of Mouth in the hallway indicates that agents found the conference very informative and engaging, brokers and MLSs were pretty disappointed. NYC is strange - every time I come to New York I find it odd that real estate is conducted so uniquely in the city. It challenges me to think about the implications of widespread disorder in accessing listing information. There are 11,000 agents in NYC that spend a tremendous amount [...]
The CARETS Southern California data sharing program has been deemed a resounding success according to several brokers and agents WAV Group has interviewed recently. The feedback we have received from brokers and agents participating in the program has been very positive. They tell us it has helped them save money because they do not need to belong to multiple MLSs now. They believe they can now better serve the needs of their Southern California customers. While CARETS recently announced that is not taking any new members for the short-term, they are definitely committed to continued growth and expansion with interested [...]
Today, Lisa Jackson, head of the Environmental Protection Agency(EPA) laid out the agency’s 7 goals for 2010 and beyond. Taking Action on Climate Change Improving Air Quality Assuring the Safety of Chemicals Cleaning Up Our Communities Protecting Americas Waters Expanding the Conversation on Environmentalism and Working for Environmental Justice Building Strong State and Tribal Partnerships It is interesting to think about how the real estate industry can contribute to the improvement of our environment in our daily works. […]
Press Release: Kurt von Wasmuth Named President and CEO of RMLS™ Kurt von Wasmuth FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 8, 2010 Kurt von Wasmuth Named President and CEO of RMLS™ RMLS™ Board of Directors promotes companys Senior Vice President PORTLAND, Ore. RMLS™ (Regional Multiple Listing Service), the largest Realtor®-owned multiple listing service in the Northwest, announced the promotion of Kurt von Wasmuth to President and CEO today. Von Wasmuth joined RMLS™ in 1998 as a Help Desk Technician and most recently served as Senior Vice President. He has also held management positions in training, communications and information services within the company. [...]
MARKETLINX LAUNCHES MOBILE MLS AUDIO SEARCH –VoicePad Technology Lets Agents “Search Any Home from Any Phone™"– SANTA ANA, Calif., Jan. 11, 2010 MarketLinx, Inc., a leading provider of information technology to the residential real estate industry and a member of The First American Corporation (NYSE: FAF) family of companies, announced today that it has partnered with VoicePad® to offer a mobile audio search tool to its MLXchange™, TEMPO™ and InnoVia™ multiple listing service (MLS) customers. Called VoiceLinx, the solution allows MarketLinx MLS users to hear spoken listing information from any mobile phone simply by calling a local phone number and [...]
Every now and then, you experience a product that stops you in your tracks. As a technology consultant who works with companies to create these experiences, I am usually not very surprised, very often. But yesterday I was delighted by a simple, easy to use product that is free, and very helpful – its called Tungle. I spend a lot of my time arranging meetings – in person or by phone. Tungle made scheduling meetings for the upcoming Inman conference really simple and easy. I just tell people on the phone to visit http://tungle.me/victorlund. My availability is open for anyone [...]
WAV Group learned today that Mike De Leon, the current Chair of CARETS for 2010 announced they will not be accepting any new members for the next six to nine months to get their house in order and to develop the necessary infrastructure to insure new members are brought onto CARETS without issue! Mike explains they want to insure that future growth is done in the right way with appropriate documentation as well as operations and procedure manuals. With over 100,000 current subscribers he points out that they still want to “…work with all potential new members toward a timely [...]
There was a small article in Ad Age today, titled Needs, Wants, and Everything in Between. The article was more of a book review, but there were two engaging concepts that inspired this post. Why do people want these goods instead of those goods? When will we know that the recession is over? The answers are almost as simple as the questions We buy goods because something inside of us drives us to buy them. The recession will be over as soon as we stop asking the question “is the recession over” Elegant, eh? Well, here are [...]
I saw an article yesterday that relayed a story about how a certain person gets news. She reported something like, I do not read the news, I scan my twitter feed. Articles that are often cited or, linked to on twitter, are the ones I read. The buzz word for this was something like ‘human sourcing’ of news. ReCoach - “kiss your rss goodbye” Today, I read two different articles. The first talked about the value of a 500 word freelance article - which turns out to be about $15 dollars on the low end and maybe $100 on the high [...]
