Jul
31
The New Wave of Real Estate innovation
July 31, 2006 | 6 Comments
Glenn Cohen, CEO of Expert Realty, gave a very interesting presentation last week at Inman Connect. He reviewed the history of the evolving brokerage business model over the last 30 years. Afterwards, he joined Brad Inman on stage and offered commentary on the elevator pitches of a half-dozen entrepeneurs. And it was at that point […]
Jul
31
Carnival of Real Estate #3
July 31, 2006 | Leave a Comment
It was a big week, largely due to the Real Estate Connect conference in San Francisco. The 3rd Edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is now posted on The Future of Real Estate Marketing. Be sure to check it out for the best of last week’s real estate blog posts!
The Carnival of Real Estate’s […]
Jul
28
Real Estate Connect - Day 3
July 28, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Brad again kicked off the morning by briefly addressing the audience and
introducing the day’s panels. After the numerous TurnHere productions shown at the
conference, he didn’t shock any of us when he proclaimed that "Video is
for everything!"
Radical Marketing - Customer Acquisition from the Edge:
This panel consisted of Dany Levy, Founder of Daily Candy, David Gensler, […]
Jul
28
San Francisco - The Buzz is Back
July 28, 2006 | 3 Comments
I’m in San Francisco for the Inman Conference, and it feels very good to be back in town. I lived here from 1999-2003 – it was the best of times, and it was the worst of times. I’ve been back to SF on many occasions over the last few years, but I must say […]
Jul
27
Real Estate Connect - Day 2
July 27, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Another day down at Real Estate Connect. Several interesting presentations and panels took place this morning including a fascinating talk about virtual Real Estate by David Fleck, VP Marketing at Second Life/Linden Lab. Also, Brad Inman admits he would rather have dinner with Realtors than UC Berkeley faculty; "Realtors are more interesting."
Happiness: What’s it worth?
Daniel […]
Jul
27
Wizard Behind the Curtain
July 27, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Yesterday, during Rich and Lloyd’s speech at Real Estate Connect, they asked conference attendees to test our new Zillow Mobile feature by e-mailing a search request to z@labs.zillow.com. Arjun Banker, the engineer behind the Zillow Mobile idea, came across one particularly interesting search query during that test, and decided to share with the company:
"Is this […]
Jul
27
Zillow Mobile: Zestimates to Go!
July 27, 2006 | 14 Comments
I was strolling around Capitol Hill a while back and saw a pretty sweet house I was interested in. How much was it worth? How big was it? The information was out there, but I had to wait until I got home before I could look it up. That’s when it occurred to me… […]
Jul
26
Real Estate Connect - Day 1
July 26, 2006 | 6 Comments
Day 1 at Real Estate Connect in San Francisco is in the books! Here are some of the highlights:
Opening Speakers:
Brad Inman, Founder of Inman News (also the conference hosts), kicked off by speaking about transparency in the real estate industry. More information is being posted online by more people — the industry must accept […]
Jul
26
Zillow’s Open API
July 26, 2006 | 38 Comments
It’s rare that Zillow parts the curtain and shines a light on our product roadmap, but today at the Inman Real Estate Connect Conference in San Francisco, Rich and Lloyd are sharing the news that Zillow has begun to develop an Open API to share data on nearly 67 million homes in America.
We figured there […]
Jul
25
Blogging at Real Estate Connect
July 25, 2006 | 2 Comments
We will be logging a few blog posts at Inman’s San Francisco Real Estate Connect conference starting tomorrow. If you are going to be there and are interested in advertising with us, applying for a job or just want to chat, we hope to bump into you. Zillow will be manning a "demopod" (D3 in […]

