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2010 Green Resolutions for the real estate industry – how can we help the EPA succeed?

Today, Lisa Jackson, head of the Environmental Protection Agency(EPA) laid out the agency’s 7 goals for 2010 and beyond. Taking Action on Climate Change Improving Air Quality Assuring the Safety of Chemicals Cleaning Up Our Communities Protecting Americas Waters Expanding the Conversation on Environmentalism and Working for Environmental Justice Building Strong State and Tribal Partnerships It is interesting to think about how the real estate industry can contribute to the improvement of our environment in our daily works. […]

By |2018-05-03T21:26:17-07:00January 12th, 2010|Main category|Comments Off on 2010 Green Resolutions for the real estate industry – how can we help the EPA succeed?

RMLS Portland Announces Kurt von Wasmuth as new President/CEO

  Press Release: Kurt von Wasmuth Named President and CEO of RMLS™ Kurt von Wasmuth FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 8, 2010 Kurt von Wasmuth Named President and CEO of RMLS™ RMLS™ Board of Directors promotes companys Senior Vice President PORTLAND, Ore. RMLS™ (Regional Multiple Listing Service), the largest Realtor®-owned multiple listing service in the Northwest, announced the promotion of Kurt von Wasmuth to President and CEO today. Von Wasmuth joined RMLS™ in 1998 as a Help Desk Technician and most recently served as Senior Vice President. He has also held management positions in training, communications and information services within the company. [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:26:17-07:00January 11th, 2010|Broker-Agent Information, Clients, Main category, MLS Insights, Our Company|Comments Off on RMLS Portland Announces Kurt von Wasmuth as new President/CEO

MARKETLINX LAUNCHES MOBILE MLS AUDIO SEARCH-Press Release

MARKETLINX LAUNCHES MOBILE MLS AUDIO SEARCH –VoicePad Technology Lets Agents “Search Any Home from Any Phone™"– SANTA ANA, Calif., Jan. 11, 2010 MarketLinx, Inc., a leading provider of information technology to the residential real estate industry and a member of The First American Corporation (NYSE: FAF) family of companies, announced today that it has partnered with VoicePad® to offer a mobile audio search tool to its MLXchange™, TEMPO™ and InnoVia™ multiple listing service (MLS) customers. Called VoiceLinx, the solution allows MarketLinx MLS users to hear spoken listing information from any mobile phone simply by calling a local phone number and [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:26:17-07:00January 11th, 2010|Broker Technology Research, Broker-Agent Information, Main category, MLS Insights, Technology Evaluation|Comments Off on MARKETLINX LAUNCHES MOBILE MLS AUDIO SEARCH-Press Release

Meet Tungle – a great new product

Every now and then, you experience a product that stops you in your tracks.  As a technology consultant who works with companies to create these experiences, I am usually not very surprised, very often.  But yesterday I was delighted by a simple, easy to use product that is free, and very helpful – its called Tungle. I spend a lot of my time arranging meetings – in person or by phone.  Tungle made scheduling meetings for the upcoming Inman conference really simple and easy.  I just tell people on the phone to visit http://tungle.me/victorlund.  My availability is open for anyone [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:26:18-07:00January 8th, 2010|Main category, MLS Insights|Comments Off on Meet Tungle – a great new product

CARETS Takes a Break on New Members!

WAV Group learned today that Mike De Leon, the current Chair of CARETS for 2010 announced they will not be accepting any new members for the next six to nine months to get their house in order and to develop the necessary infrastructure to insure new members are brought onto CARETS without issue! Mike explains they want to insure that future growth is done in the right way with appropriate documentation as well as operations and procedure manuals. With over 100,000 current subscribers he points out that they still want to “…work with all potential new members toward a timely [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:26:18-07:00January 8th, 2010|Broker Technology Research, Broker-Agent Information, Main category, MLS Insights, Reports|Comments Off on CARETS Takes a Break on New Members!

Two Bold Ideas in One Article

There was a small article in Ad Age today, titled Needs, Wants, and Everything in Between.  The article was more of a book review, but there were two engaging concepts that inspired this post.   Why do people want these goods instead of those goods? When will we know that the recession is over?   The answers are almost as simple as the questions   We buy goods because something inside of us drives us to buy them. The recession will be over as soon as we stop asking the question “is the recession over”   Elegant, eh?  Well, here are [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:26:18-07:00January 8th, 2010|Main category|Comments Off on Two Bold Ideas in One Article

Three Articles About Writers and Twitter

I saw an article yesterday that relayed a story about how a certain person gets news.  She reported something like, I do not read the news, I scan my twitter feed.  Articles that are often cited or, linked to on twitter, are the ones I read.  The buzz word for this was something like ‘human sourcing’ of news. ReCoach - “kiss your rss goodbye” Today, I read two different articles.  The first talked about the value of a 500 word freelance article - which turns out to be about $15 dollars on the low end and maybe $100 on the high [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:26:18-07:00January 6th, 2010|Main category, Twitter for Real Estate|Comments Off on Three Articles About Writers and Twitter

NYC is going green, why cant you?

New York City has passed landmark legislation to reduce the cost of operating existing buildings according to an article this week in the Queens Center. While most municipal legislation focuses mainly on building standards for new builds, this legislation requires energy reduction and energy use monitoring for large existing buildings in New York City. This legislation will affect a small percentage of the buildings in NYC, yet it will affect 45% of the city’s total energy consumption.  The legislation requires annual energy audits and remediation plans.  It specifically targets lighting since 20% of total energy consumption in the city is [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:26:18-07:00December 30th, 2009|Main category|Comments Off on NYC is going green, why cant you?

Metrolist Adopts Flat Fee Pricing Structure

In a historic move for Metrolist MLS, the company has moved from a usage pricing model to a flat fee model. This move will likely save Metrolist’s active top producer members hundreds of dollars a year – a welcome change in a contracted economy. […]

By |2018-05-03T21:26:18-07:00December 23rd, 2009|Main category|Comments Off on Metrolist Adopts Flat Fee Pricing Structure

Are you as annoying as a political party?

During critical election times I became quite engrossed in learning all of the “facts” about political candidates so I signed up for several email newsletters so that I could learn about issues from several perspectives. In the heat of the battle I was not affronted by being asked constantly for funds.  The pitches for funding usually included some valuable information about the issues at hand so I was willing to put up with the incessant sales pitches. Fast forward to a year later.  Now the major elections are over.  I have already given at the office, donating to the candidates [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:26:18-07:00December 23rd, 2009|Main category|Comments Off on Are you as annoying as a political party?

Trulia talks with Google rumored

  According to sources close to the situation Google has been in on-again, off-again acquisition talks with Trulia, the real-estate search engine.  This blog post appeared on CNET today from Kara Shisher – whose wife is an executive with Google – EVP Biz Dev.  kara also writes for the WSJ and co-produces a conference with Walt Mossberg. Kara indicates that sources estimate that Trulia’s valuation ranges between $150 and $200 million – although the sale would place a premium on top of that. […]

By |2018-05-03T21:26:18-07:00December 20th, 2009|Main category|Comments Off on Trulia talks with Google rumored

Google Africa aims to scrape and catalog global real estate listing data

Los Angles Times, 2009 - International Search Engine Company, Google - opens new company in Africa to begin scraping data outside the reach of United States and International Copyright Laws. This is fiction Today I read the Los Angles Times - paper edition (typing with black fingers).  There was an article covering Google Books - the Search Engine’s initiative to digitize every book on the planet in every language.  As it turns out, the French courts generally agree with the US Courts - that digitizing books violates copyright. I am not an international copyright lawyer, but I suspect that Google [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:26:19-07:00December 19th, 2009|Main category|Comments Off on Google Africa aims to scrape and catalog global real estate listing data