Silicon Valley Real Estate Info

Many real estate agents and their buyers use Google Street Views to preview real estate prior to visiting it.  For you “off street” enthusiasts, Google has mounted a tricycle with it’s Street View camera and is looking for off road sites worthy of showcasing.  So far they have collected imagery of Legoland in Southern California, San [...]

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Joe Brown, a 28-year real estate veteran and President of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage’s Silicon Valley, Monterey Bay and East Bay regions has started a real estate blog called Weekly Market Watch.   It’s good to see Coldwell Banker’s leadership adopting some of the technologies that have proven effective for their agents as well as in other industries. 
Joe [...]

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Promotional flyers have been used by agents in marketing homes in Los Altos and the surrounding cities for many years.  With technology getting better and more sophisticated, one would think that the number of agents who use promotional flyers targeted at real estate agents as part of their marketing efforts would be zero (or close [...]

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Back in the late 90’s, I thought it was cool to be one of the few Los Altos Realtors to use software that “stitched” photos together to create “virtual tours” of my real estate listings.  Flash forward to today and I now can use Photosynth. 
Photosynth creates a futuristic 3-d experience with user submitted photos.  Could this service replace [...]

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After attending REBarCamp 2008, Zillow hosted an evening of networking aptly named Beer with Bloggers.  The event was held at Café Du Nord in the city from 6:00pm – 8:00pm.  I haven’t set up my Flickr account yet, so I have just included a photo from last night’s festivities. 

This morning I head to Bloggers Connect, a workshop that brings [...]

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I consider myself fairly technologically adept, especially considering that I’m a Realtor and I’m over 40.  Most Realtors over 40 don’t understand technology and don’t necessarily like learning new technologies in order to sell real estate.  I figure that I either learn and adapt or retire.  Since I have a wife, two kids, a dog, and [...]

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MLSListings Inc. has released its latest version of its real estate Multiple Listing Service software called Pro MLSListings 3.8 this morning.  With it comes some interesting enhancements aimed at making it easier for real estate professionals to efficiently assist their home sellers and buyers.  All in all there aren’t too many changes of significance, but [...]

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I took off the first weekend of May to do my annual pilgrimage south to Lake San Antonio for the Wildflower Triathlon weekend.  Usually, I go down on Thursday to establish a camp site for our group.  Friday is set aside for wine tasting in Paso Robles.  Saturday is a rest day. Sunday is race [...]

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Is that old black and white T.V. collecting dust?  Do you still have your first cell phone and charger?  Is your old C.P.U. performing better as a doorstop than a computer?  Why not get rid of your old electronics and help restore a portion of Hale Creek in Los Altos.  The First Baptist Church of Los Altos is holding [...]

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The long tail theory in real estate has been extensively written about in the blogosphere.  Jim Cronin has a good article on his highly enjoyable blog The Real Estate Tomato.  another excellent article, “Long tail, short tail and coat tail searches“ can be found on rsspieces.com.   Another good article is found on RealtyBlogging.com, “The long tail and real estate blogging.”  I [...]

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