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February 24, 2015

Judge keeps listings flowing to Trulia — for now

Trulia Inc., the nation’s second-most popular real estate listing site, has been granted a temporary restraining order to keep receiving listings from rival-owned ListHub. ListHub — which is owned by realtor.com operator Move Inc., a News Corp. subsidiary — announced Thursday that it had terminated its syndication agreement with Trulia…
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February 24, 2015

Partnership integrates forms, transaction management apps

Users of BackAgent’s paperless transaction management platform can now use the form-filling software zipForm Plus from within the BackAgent interface, thanks to “deep integration” of the applications. Now that an integration of the platforms announced last summer is complete, BackAgent users who also have zipForm Plus accounts don’t have to…
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February 24, 2015

Maverick broker touts ‘legal way to get drone-like views’

Some real estate agents may be tempting fate if they use drones to capture aerial images of homes without obtaining authorization from the Federal Aviation Administration. But Surefield, a broker that uses a proprietary camera to produce virtual 3-D tours, says it’s cooked up a way to capture drone-like aerial imagery without running that risk.…
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February 24, 2015

Realogy’s revenue increases on rising home prices

Buoyed by rising home prices, real estate giant Realogy posted $5.3 billion in net revenue in 2014, up 1 percent from a year ago. “Realogy was involved in approximately 27 percent of U.S. existing homesale transaction volume involving a real estate brokerage firm — a full percentage point gain in market…
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February 24, 2015

Go figure: all-cash sales and institutional investors, highest median home prices, the average Irish-American and more

Showing the money <a href=’#’><img alt=’Housing Markets in Demand ‘ src=’https://public.tableau.com/static/images/Ca/CashandInstitutionalInvestorHotZipsQ42014/Dashboard1/1_rss.png’ style=’border: none’ /></a>   How many paper pushers are there? Luck of the Irish-American Taking care of business Where the middle is higher   Have data you’d like to see featured here? Email contributors@inman.com. The post Go figure: all-cash…
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February 24, 2015

Could a portal merger change the face of real estate? A lesson from PayPal

In October 2002, eBay, the giant online auction site, purchased the fast-growing payments company, PayPal, for $1.5 billion. Founded at the end of 1998, PayPal had become the de facto way to pay for goods on eBay, powering 70 percent of auction payments. The purchase was the exclamation mark on…
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February 24, 2015

Stephanie Crawford: ‘My WordPress website accounts for half our business’

Inman is interviewing real estate professionals in every area of the field to talk about technology use. Here’s Stephanie Crawford, a Realtor/broker at Keller Williams Realty. What kind of phone do you use and why? I have an iPhone 5s. I’ve tried Android in the past, but Apple just works better.…
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February 24, 2015

Why the best advice on how to choose a real estate agent is all wrong

As an industry, most of the advice we give consumers about how to choose a real estate agent doesn’t make sense. No wonder some clients are unhappy with our services. For example, I recently read that home sellers should choose an agent who has an assistant or maybe several of…
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February 24, 2015

New tool measures traffic, leads generated by agent and MLS websites

The big third-party listing portals seem to get the bulk of the attention in the industry, but listing websites are everywhere. Most of them are agent and broker Internet data exchange (IDX) websites, powered by local multiple listing services. Minneapolis-based WolfNet has become the first national IDX website provider to…
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February 24, 2015

Opportunity and legal risks come with buying and selling leads

Three years ago, Ben Kinney made a proposal to a local real estate agent: He would pay the agent $18,000 if the agent gave Kinney the contact information of the 18,000 leads the agent had stored in his database. The agent agreed. Kinney and his team at Keller Williams Realty…
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