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January 28, 2015

Co-founder offers Reddit credit in the spirit of his Connect talk

NEW YORK — Alexis Ohanian, co-founder and executive chairman of social media behemoth Reddit, offered a $50 advertising credit to Real Estate Connect attendees in the spirit of the advice he had for them today: make something people want and help them use it. Ohanian told Connect attendees how to…
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January 28, 2015

Research engine publishing real estate agent performance statistics

FindTheBest, a data aggregator that helps people research everything from smartphones and cars to colleges and nursing homes, often helps consumers gauge quality by serving up ratings. But the research engine, which recently migrated its real estate search tools off findthebest.com and onto a standalone website, findthehome.com, has decided not…
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January 28, 2015

3 ways to prove you’re a local expert

The year is 2015, and many agents are still wondering how to leverage technology to grow their business. Brokerages everywhere are hosting weekend seminars about how to use social media, but I sincerely hope no one thinks that social media requires you to create content. Your business is content. As…
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January 28, 2015

Diane Szoke: ‘You need to embrace losing if you want to learn’

Diane Szoke is the CEO of Relocality. Describe what you do in one sentence: As a woman, I’m accustomed to balancing the needs of complex social, professional and personal networks on a daily basis — as an entrepreneur, my passion, vision and “intuitive muscle” serve me well in building startups that innovate,…
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January 28, 2015

Turn down the portal-attack noise to hear the truth

Every time I read an article or a comment criticizing one of the evil media portals, I can’t help but think of an age-old issue we have as an industry. All too often we seem to suffer from memory loss about the not-so-long-ago past. I can vividly remember when the…
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January 28, 2015

Back office system helps brokers gauge customer satisfaction

Lone Wolf Real Estate Technologies Inc. has completed an integration with agent review platform RealSatisfied, enabling brokers to automatically invite their agents’ clients to fill out a RealSatisfied customer satisfaction survey whenever a transaction closes. The integration with Lone Wolf’s back office broker management system, brokerWOLF, “reduces data entry, saving…
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January 28, 2015

125 MLSs now sending listings directly to Trulia

Trulia, the nation’s second most popular real estate listing portal, has signed direct feed agreements with 125 multiple listing services, 69 of them in 2014. The agreements are a sign that MLSs are increasingly comfortable sending listings directly to third-party portals rather than through listing syndicator ListHub. Zillow, the nation’s…
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January 28, 2015

Why News Corp bought realtor.com instead of Zillow or Trulia

NEW YORK CITY — The new owner of realtor.com operator Move Inc. kicked the tires of its two chief competitors, Zillow and Trulia, before  acquiring Move for $950 million in November, News Corp. CEO Robert Thomson revealed today. In a one-on-one conversation with Inman Publisher Brad Inman at Real Estate Connect…
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January 27, 2015

Listing agents may have provided condo keys to Craigslist rental scammers

Real estate agents may have unwittingly aided a Craigslist rental scam that swindled hundreds of thousands of dollars from would-be renters, by providing fraudsters who posed as buyer’s agents with keys to vacant condos that legitimate brokers had listed for sale. The scammers would use photos and other information from…
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January 27, 2015

Here come the ‘boomerang buyers’

More than 7 million homeowners who lost their properties to foreclosures or short sales during the housing bust will return to the housing market over the next eight years, according to a RealtyTrac report. It can take seven years to undo the damage that a foreclosure or short sale does…
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