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Last week’s RE Bar Camp in San Francisco was a roaring success; a perfect storm of talented people in the right place at the right time. This video will hopefully give you a taste of what went down and who showed up to the first RE Bar Camp. And if you can overlook my amateur […]

Last week, a few of us attended the Inman Connect Conference in San Francisco. It was a fantastic conference with great networking opportunities. RE Bar Camp helped set the stage for a great week — a group of about 100 or 150 bloggers and techies gathered to chat about the latest and greatest products and […]

A big thanks to everyone who attended Beer with Bloggers last night at Cafe du Nord in gorgeous San Francisco. We had a blast and hope you did too. If you liked the venue, you should thank Andy Kaufman and Brad Coy for the idea. Cafe du Nord, I have come to learn, has […]

It’s hard to believe Inman’s “Real Estate Connect” conference is only a week away. I’m looking forward to seeing many familiar (and new) faces next week, kicking off with our sponsorship of the 3rd Beer with Bloggers event. We’ve been asked several times about the details for this year’s Beer with Bloggers, so here’s the […]

The 99th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is posted at Homethinking Blog. There are 5 posts highlighted, with Dan Green’s “12 Bullet Points That Matter to Every Home Buyer in America” easily taking top honors. For example, his intro paragraph, “If you plan to buy a new home in 2008 or 2009, […]

In this crazy market, how are you supposed to keep up with — and help others keep up with — the latest mortgage rates? Well, now you don’t have to worry about it. We did the work for you — Zillow has created new mortgage rate widgets you can add to your own Web site […]

If so, you’re in luck.
We’ve extended the opportunity to win free admission (valued at $779) into July for those who are still interesting in winning one of the three prepaid (meaning FREE to you) passes Inman has given us to give away. All you need to do to stand a chance of winning one of […]

Now you can add Zillow’s Quarterly Home Value Reports to a blog post just as easily as you can add a YouTube video. All you have to do is cut and paste. We used the Editgrid service to create this portable spreadsheet which includes median home value data, year-over-year changes and market peak info for […]

Last Thursday was a busy day in the world of online training for real estate professionals.
I was down at the 4RealzEd internet marketing seminar in Orange County put on by Dustin Luther and Jim Marks (Zillow was one of the sponsors). Jim mentioned a couple interesting stats worth repeating; 80% of buyers start their search […]

Hello from Inman Connect in New York! I am staying at the conference hotel, the Marriott Marquis, where they must have had Al Gore himself come and wire the building for Internet, as it costs $16.95/day for Internet access. I begrudgingly paid it so that I could get this recap of the Beer For Bloggers […]