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Zillow secures direct feeds from 25 MLSs in February

In the month of February, 25 multiple listing services signed up to send listings in direct feeds to Zillow, the listing portal said in an announcement. The disclosure sheds more light on the headway that the listing portal has made in securing direct feeds from MLSs ahead of the April 7 expiration date of its agreement…
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Agent-only app sifts MLS data to show agents how they’re connected

Homesnap’s agent-only mobile app, Homesnap Pro, just learned a cool new trick: Sifting transactional data from participating MLSs, the app can show agents how they’re connected to each other — whether they or someone in their office has done a deal with a particular agent, for example, or if they…
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Ginger Wilcox: ‘Technology can enable service rather than replace it’

Ginger Wilcox of Sindeo talks about helping consumers select the right mortgage and managing a transparent marketplace containing private information. The post Ginger Wilcox: ‘Technology can enable service rather than replace it’ appeared first on WFG National Title Insurance Company.
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3 ‘Ms’ of building an indie real estate brokerage

My husband and I founded Lanier Property Group three years ago with the (admittedly audacious) vision of changing the real estate industry for both our agents and our clients. We wanted to build a place to work that was so awesome that it would make Mondays our favorite day of…
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Think inside the Box

Editor’s note: This week, Inman is launching a brand-new daily series of articles focused specifically on evaluating the technology you use in your real estate business. Have suggestions for products that you’d like to see reviewed by our expert? Email him at craig@inman.com. The pitch By the end of this quarter, Apple will…
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Eli King on big phone screens, WordPress and why Exchange is her favorite email host

Inman is interviewing real estate professionals in every area of the field to talk about technology use. Here’s Eli King, an online specialist at Roohan Realty. Is your phone an iPhone, Android, Windows Phone? What model? Why? Android Samsung Galaxy Note 2 (I’m not due for my upgrade until July). I…
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March 4, 2015

Why portal changes will never affect top agents

There is a storm of confusion surrounding the Zillow-Trulia merger, especially when it comes to how the alliance will affect agents. You have to wonder how brokerages, MLSs (multiple listing services) and individual agents who feed listings into the two big portals are feeling about the idea that the leads…
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March 3, 2015

New document management system launches with big client

Real Estate Digital has signed HER Realtors as the first user of its new “agent-centric” paperless document management system, rDocs. RED says rDocs allows brokers to pick and choose the features they need, including electronic forms, documents and eSignature, within a single platform. “Companion products” offered by RED include rDesk…
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Placester powering real estate search for Cox newspapers

Real estate website provider Placester has partnered with Cox Media Group to power the digital real estate sections for eight of its properties, including the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Austin American-Statesman and the Palm Beach Post. Placester says its listing search platform adds new features to the publications’ online real estate sections while increasing local advertising…
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Trulia launches collaborative search feature

A new collaborative home search feature from Trulia allows homebuyers and renters to create Pinterest-like “boards” of homes they find on the portal that they can keep track of and share with friends, family and their agent. When consumers who are logged into their Trulia account save homes (by selecting the heart icon that lives next to…
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