An addictive easy way to shop for homes
Or, Why Dave McClure is Right: indeed: most VCs are Dinosaurs, and the World Wide Web is an Asteroid that hit the planet in a slow-motion cataclysmic explosion 15 years ago. It may take another 5 years for the ash clouds & nuclear winter of Browsers, Search Engines, Social Networks, & Mobile Devices to kill all the T-Rexes, but it’s...
Update: I originally wrote a much longer post, but cut a lot of it to make it more internet friendly. I unfortunately cut the part where I talked about how striking it was that only a small part of this conference was to straight marketing tricks, while a lot of it was nuts and bolts marketing that any agent really...
My first project after the dust settled from walking through the doors of Estately was to redesign and enrich the user experience of the property bubble. The property bubble is a super charged snap shot of information about a house or condominium that is revealed upon “click” of a map marker on the Estately search results map. Goals for the...
Source: United States Census Bureau. While housing starts – the number of homes on which construction has been started – have gone up and down since 1959, no year has come close to being as low as 2009. While predictions for 2010 are somewhat improved, you can count on fewer new homes being available in 2010 and 2011. Embed the...
Today we are celebrating a 15% expansion in our geographic breadth: the greater Washington DC area. After waiting for over 1 million photos to download, today we are announcing that we now have over half a million homes listed for sale on Estately. And we are welcoming Washington, DC and Baltimore. Having spent some time there, we will also give...
Some background: From late summer through October 2009, Uncle Sam offered first-time buyers $8,000 if they bought a home by the end of November. As a country we “brought sales forward” – we convinced people who would otherwise have bought in December or January to buy in November. When the November numbers were released, the National Association of Realtors and...