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January 30, 2015

10 smoking-hot real estate web design trends

Web design is a faced-paced industry, and we often see big trends come and go. But many of the web design trends we’ve seen rising in the last few years are still around, and more new trends are emerging in 2015. Here are 10 trends that will likely dominate the…
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January 30, 2015

Love it or hate it, Zillow is here to stay

Love it or hate it, Zillow is not going anywhere. Even with ListHub cutting off its feed, Zillow’s business will not suffer. In fact, it could probably make the portal even more trustworthy in the consumer’s eyes. I posted a simple question to my Facebook wall the other day, and…
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January 30, 2015

Scott Strevell: ‘Local content produces our best results’

Age: 53 Years in real estate: 32 Job title: Broker associate at KC Homes 365 Team with Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Kansas City Realty Location: Kansas City, specializing in Johnson County Hours per week spent on social media: Less than one hour per day, but working on increasing our presence on the…
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January 29, 2015

Notorious real estate coach basks in ‘bad guy’ image

Mike Ferry doesn’t want to be your friend. Not if you’re his coaching client at least. The industry bigwig, widely regarded as the granddaddy of real estate coaching, believes coaches who socialize with their clients are less likely to be effective at teaching tactics for drumming up business and closing more…
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January 29, 2015

Ability to customize and integrate helps vendor keep big client

Keller Williams Realty has renewed an agreement with its custom intranet provider, BackAgent, which touted its ability to build new features suggested by the franchisor and improve integration with Keller Williams’ existing systems for the extension of a relationship dating to 2011. The BackAgent platform integrates directly with “myKW,” Keller…
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January 29, 2015

Keller Williams re-ups with dotloop for 5 more years

Dotloop will continue to power the transaction management component of Keller Williams Realty all-in-one tech platform for five more years, extending the firm’s partnership into 2021. Dotloop has been a Keller Williams partner since 2009, and was on board in 2011 as the franchisor rolled out its “eEdge” platform, which…
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January 29, 2015

Rupert Murdoch: ‘What the hell does Zillow mean?’

NEW YORK — Some real estate tech watchers have suggested that realtor.com is due for a name change, arguing that the label doesn’t deliver enough marketing oomph. But Rupert Murdoch, executive chairman of News Corp., the media conglomerate that now owns realtor.com operator Move Inc., made it clear that he…
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January 29, 2015

2 devices that’ll reinvent home tours

Dave Eisenberg Two devices currently under development will reinvent the way buyers tour listings, according to Dave Eisenberg, CEO of 3-D provider Floored. The first is Oculus Rift, a virtual-reality headset. The device will let users explore homes remotely by making the virtual 3-D models that have stoked buzz in the industry dramatically more…
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January 29, 2015

Darren Bailey: ‘Tech needs to catch up quickly to provide brokers and agents the modern experience they deserve’

Director of application management services at Metropolitan Regional Information Services Inc., a multiple listing service supporting 40,000 real estate pros in the Mid-Atlantic region. Time at MRIS: Two years What he does: I am responsible for leading a team of architects, developers, support engineers and data and business analysts at MRIS. Age:…
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January 29, 2015

Tech companies sound off on frustrations with MLSs

NEW YORK — There’s a lot of talk in the industry about building tools to improve the efficiency of real estate transactions. But what happens when a tool designed to do that confronts the inefficiency of the industry itself? Frustration, according to tech company execs speaking at Real Estate Connect…
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