Monthly Archives: August 2007

Yahoo!’s Michael Yang Explains Realogy Deal

Yahoo! last week said it is adding 700,000 listings into its Real Estate classifieds from Realogy, the real estate industry’s largest franchisor with brands such Century 21 (my wife’s brokerage), Coldwell Banker, ERA and Sotheby’s International Realty. Realogy adds Yahoo! to a distribution list that also includes Trulia.
On its face, the Yahoo!-Realogy deal would seem […]

IAC Sees Vertical Integration

IAC is pushing extremely hard on real estate, where it sees synergistic developments from owning LendingTree (mortgage referrals), The Home Loan Center, and RealEstate.com (Web lead generated brokerage services).
Speaking at Inman’s Real Estate Connect conference last week in San Francisco, IAC President and COO Doug Lebda and RealEstate.com President Bret Violette hammered home the […]

Leading NW Broker John L. Scott Goes Hi Tech

John L. Scott, a leading broker in the Pacific Northwest, has carved out a niche for itself as a major implementator of technology, even as it sticks to a full service model. Speaking at Inman’s Real Estate Connect last week, Chairman and CEO Lennox Scott said that “the game plan is real time real […]

Update from Craig (Newmark)

Speaking at Inman’s Real Estate Connect last week in San Francisco, CraigsList namesake Craig Newmark says the service is now getting 8 billion page views a month from 450 cities in 50 countries. He also noted that the service is up to 23 staffers, and will be adding a couple of programmers. He didn’t […]