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The market in the Seattle area isn’t taking quite the beating it is in the rest of the country, but the number of homes on the market is growing – there are nearly 50,000 homes and condos for sale in western Washington now, up from about 30,000 when we launched in December. Some of that is the normal cycle of...
On Thursday Anastasia Goodstein, (Ypulse), Niki Scevak (RealEstateVoices), Jason Spencer (StreetAdvisor.com), Karim Tahawi (My-Currency) and I were on the New Kids on the Block panel at the Inman Connect conference last week. I was extremely flattered to be invited to be on this panel; Doug and myself, the two-man team behind Estately beat out dozens of other new real estate...
While it seems like you might miss potential clients by pricing your home so low that it falls off their radar screens, Broker Bryant today spotted a $235,000 home listed for $160,000. The guise: “drama pricing.” Set the price so low people get excited and let them bid it up. They should call it ebay pricing in honor of the...
Today we’re launching Estately Agent Match, a program to help Washington State home buyers and sellers find the best real estate agent for them. In a nutshell, you tell us what you need in an agent and we match you with 3 real estate agents who are a good match. Each agent will send you a personal introduction and you’ll...
We’re very excited to announce our new name today: Estately. After some soul searching, we decided that ShackPrices was fun, but didn’t always convey how good our real estate search is, the variety of homes available on our site, and the vast amount of information available on our site. We are absolutely smitten with Estately. It’s quick, easy to pronounce,...
We’ve been so busy we forgot to mention our latest update: you can now see only the homes you have saved on the map. Just click more options and you’ll see it there at the bottom. This was one of our most requested features and we’re glad to get it out for everyone to use. If you save homes for...