Comments on: Take Away http://360digest.com/2007/08/07/take-away/ Seattle Real Estate Blog for those interested in Seattle real estate, popular culture, tech, news and opinion. Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:16:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Lauren Simms http://360digest.com/2007/08/07/take-away/comment-page-1/#comment-18735 Lauren Simms Sun, 12 Aug 2007 21:56:27 +0000 http://360digest.com/2007/08/07/take-away/#comment-18735 The real estate industry is changing fast one area that I have been really disappointed is the rise of these web valuation sites although there has been one that I feel that has some potential. I have been surprised by housefront.com, over the last several weeks I have compared the estimated values to the selling price of houses that have sold through my agency and on average have seen give or take about 10% variation from Housefront’s estimates; which is accurate enough to be very useful to me especially with the mobile text messaging feature. If Housefront continues to add more useful features I believe it can be a powerful resource. What has really disappointed me about other similar services is that even though more visually appealing they have tended to be very inaccurate. Lauren The real estate industry is changing fast one area that I have been really disappointed is the rise of these web valuation sites although there has been one that I feel that has some potential. I have been surprised by housefront.com, over the last several weeks I have compared the estimated values to the selling price of houses that have sold through my agency and on average have seen give or take about 10% variation from Housefront’s estimates; which is accurate enough to be very useful to me especially with the mobile text messaging feature. If Housefront continues to add more useful features I believe it can be a powerful resource. What has really disappointed me about other similar services is that even though more visually appealing they have tended to be very inaccurate.

Lauren

]]> By: Debra Sinick http://360digest.com/2007/08/07/take-away/comment-page-1/#comment-18255 Debra Sinick Wed, 08 Aug 2007 01:59:50 +0000 http://360digest.com/2007/08/07/take-away/#comment-18255 Great post, Marlow. Because there were so many websites, new media, etc. presented at Connect SF, it was impossible to hear about everything. You are mentioning some sites I still need to check out. Thanks again for sharing your blogging knowledge with the rest of us neophytes. Great post, Marlow. Because there were so many websites, new media, etc. presented at Connect SF, it was impossible to hear about everything. You are mentioning some sites I still need to check out.

Thanks again for sharing your blogging knowledge with the rest of us neophytes.

]]> By: Pete Goldey http://360digest.com/2007/08/07/take-away/comment-page-1/#comment-18251 Pete Goldey Wed, 08 Aug 2007 00:43:50 +0000 http://360digest.com/2007/08/07/take-away/#comment-18251 Marlow, Thanks for mentioning the impending <a> SpotIt </a> launch as well. It's already launched in a sense as several clients have integrated the toolset that allows agents to promote themselves as neighborhood experts (though this is just one facet of the product). OnBoard's focus has always been how to drive value through our client's websites to consumers and draw business back up the chain (rather than to OnBoard's website or lead gen system). When Coldwell Banker and Douglas Elliman challenged us to add user-generated, hyper-local, interactive content to their sites without tripping the steering and legality alarms SpotIt was born! Will keep you posted as these sites become public. - Pete Marlow,
Thanks for mentioning the impending SpotIt launch as well.

It’s already launched in a sense as several clients have integrated the toolset that allows agents to promote themselves as neighborhood experts (though this is just one facet of the product).

OnBoard’s focus has always been how to drive value through our client’s websites to consumers and draw business back up the chain (rather than to OnBoard’s website or lead gen system). When Coldwell Banker and Douglas Elliman challenged us to add user-generated, hyper-local, interactive content to their sites without tripping the steering and legality alarms SpotIt was born!

Will keep you posted as these sites become public.

- Pete

]]> By: Marlow Harris http://360digest.com/2007/08/07/take-away/comment-page-1/#comment-18234 Marlow Harris Tue, 07 Aug 2007 21:01:13 +0000 http://360digest.com/2007/08/07/take-away/#comment-18234 Jonathan, Do you need an agent :) -- M. Jonathan,

Do you need an agent :)

— M.

]]> By: Jonathan Washburn http://360digest.com/2007/08/07/take-away/comment-page-1/#comment-18229 Jonathan Washburn Tue, 07 Aug 2007 19:01:22 +0000 http://360digest.com/2007/08/07/take-away/#comment-18229 Marlow, It was nice to finally meet you at Inman. I wish we had more time to talk. I am moving to Bellevue in a couple weeks, hopefully we can meet up for lunch or something after my move. Marlow,
It was nice to finally meet you at Inman. I wish we had more time to talk. I am moving to Bellevue in a couple weeks, hopefully we can meet up for lunch or something after my move.

]]> By: Zoltan Szendro http://360digest.com/2007/08/07/take-away/comment-page-1/#comment-18221 Zoltan Szendro Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:56:52 +0000 http://360digest.com/2007/08/07/take-away/#comment-18221 Marlow, Thank you very much for mentioning us in your post. As our contribution to the fast changing, dynamic real estate industry - and just in time for the Inman show - we opened up the RealBird Listing Publisher service. It is now a completely free service with a bunch of new functionalities. -- Zoltan RealBird Inc. http://www.realbird.com Marlow,

Thank you very much for mentioning us in your post. As our contribution to the fast changing, dynamic real estate industry – and just in time for the Inman show – we opened up the RealBird Listing Publisher service. It is now a completely free service with a bunch of new functionalities.

– Zoltan
RealBird Inc.
http://www.realbird.com

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