2004 Reports
WAV Group 2004 MLS Tech Survey Report Oct-15-2004 - WAV Group 2004 MLS Tech Survey Report 2004 Mid-Year Tech Update Jun-01-2004 - For a copy of the 2004 Mid-Year Tech Update click here!
zhiing.com launches new website in anticipation of iphone availability
Santa Barbara company zhiing.com has launched their new website. WAV Group partner, Victor Lund consults with zhiing on online marketing. The zhiing product is designed to send text messages to your friends along with your location. It works best on smartphones like iphone and blackberry, but is unique in that it works on all phone across all networks in the USA and Canada. It makes giving friends directions easier. The site is due to launch on Monday, but it is available for view in Alpha today. visit the site and check out the blog.
Great idea from Tom Kunz, CEO Century 21
I was socialzing with friends of mine who operate 10 Cenutry 21 offices along the Central Coast of California. Thier spirts where high, which impressed me given the challenges facing brokers and agents today. Fortunately for us, all is not lost in this unique corner of our Nation. I asked them about being a Century 21 Franchise, and how that helps them. They responded in unison with acclaim “Tom Kunz just gave us a great idea!” And went on to explain: “Buyers are looking at houses, but not making offers. Tom suggested that we sit down with our sellers and make the [...]
LeadingRE Launches Cutting-Edge Video Program
Contact: Stephen Schweickart / Realty Video USA / 866.720.0204 / Stephen@RealtyVideoUSA.com LeadingRE Launches Cutting-Edge Video Program Video content tool helps LeadingREs 700 firms tap into the power of Internet Video CHICAGO (10/09/08) Enabling their members to take advantage of the rapidly growing trend in real estate video, Leading Real Estate Companies of the World® (LeadingRE), a global real estate network, has named Realty Video USA™ as its newest vendor associate for its Leading Real Estate Solutions™ division, which endorses leading edge real estate products and services for the networks 700 member firms. Realty Video USA™ has just released a turnkey [...]
Evolution from Talk to Text in Real Estate
“Evolution from Talk to Text” read the headline today in the New York Times today. Yesterday there was an announcement on TechCrunch about Verizon raising their SMS fees 15% According to Nielsen Mobile, the typical subscriber sent or received 357 text messages compared to 204 phone calls. Here are some more Nielson Stats from Q2, 2008: 43 Million US mobile subscribers use mobile internet 33 Million receive text alerts 32 Million use instant messaging 4 Million subscriber to mobile video CALL TO ACTION Mobile Search in real estate is lagging behind consumer demand…..again. MLS and Brokers should strongly consider [...]
Trulia seeks MLS Relationships to enhance accuracy of listing syndiation
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 10, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) - Trulia.com, the best place to start a real estate search, has created a new business development group to form partnerships with Multiple Listing Service (MLS) providers. The move is in response to growing interest from MLSs and the Association of REALTORS® who want to ensure their members’ listings are available and accurately represented to consumers searching for real estate online. Trulia offers MLSs and associations several unique marketing and educational benefits, including: - Syndication of listings to Trulia.com, with 5 million unique monthly users and 250% annual traffic growth, at no cost [...]
Marilyn Wilson Voted one of the top 50 women in real estate
I would like to congratulate WAV Group partner Marilyn Wilson for being selected as one of the top 50 women in real estate. Her thought leadership and work ethic make for an enormous contribution to the WAV Group and thier clients. Thanks to the ActiveRain and Steven Swanepoel for producting the list of the Top 100 Most Influential Women in leadership roles in the Real Estate Industry. Congratulations to all of the winners - click more to see the list! Adorna Carroll Amy Chorew Andy Capelluto Ann Bailey Ann Defries Anne Randolph Avis Wukasch Barb Schwarz Barbara Corcoran Bernice [...]
Rapattoni launches MLS access security without Tokens!
SIMI VALLEY, Calif., September 26, 2008 - Rapattoni Corporation announced today that it will implement advanced technology from RSA to enhance the fraud detection capabilities of Rapattoni Secure Logon and to make the security experience more convenient for its users. Based on PassMark device identification technology, which provides the “know your customer” rule used in online banking, this technology offers customers even more security assurance than traditional hardware tokens. RSA® Adaptive Authentication is an intelligent system that authenticates users by monitoring a series of risk indicators in real-time. This transparent authentication provides a superior user experience as agents are only [...]
Pieces of GMAC real estate arm have been sold
Although no information is being reported on Pacific Union, Koneng and Strey and other company owned offices - much of the empire has been sold. NEW YORK (Associated Press) - A unit of Brookfield Asset Management Inc. said Tuesday it is buying the real estate arm of GMAC Financial Services for undisclosed terms. The Toronto-based asset manager’s Brookfield Residential Property Services will buy GMAC Home Services LLC from GMAC Residential Holding Company LLC and Residential Capital LLC. The deal includes GMAC Real Estate, which has about 80 company-owned real estate offices and about 1,000 franchised offices nationwide, and GMAC Home [...]
A powerhouse product emerges from FNRES – Fidelity National Real Estate Services
For years FNRES has maintained one of the largest data aggregation operations in the real estate industry - Internally code named DAGG. DAGG is believed to be among the top three MLS feed management teams, joined by Wolfnet andeNeighborhoods. Although it is unclear exactly how many listings are being processed by these firms, our sources indicate that they have eclipsed 5 Million listings representing nearly 98% of all listings in the United States distributed over 900 MLS feeds. For the first time, DAGG is offering their data management services to companies outside of the Fidelity family of businesses. With this offering, [...]
Real Estate Advertising leads declines at Gannett
Business has been going badly for for publishers throughout the real estate industry. Perhaps the hardest hit have been newspapers. Overall, Gannett reported that Real Estate advertising was down 40% over 2007. By comparison, employment was down 33% and Automotive down 21%. Perhaps more telling is that circulation revenue is also down in line with declines in advertising. What is not clear from the Gannett August release is the cause. Are newspapers seeing the predicted decline in readership caused by the internet, or is the soft economy the source? Furthermore, the release did not offer any guidance on future growth [...]