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Point2 consistently raises the bar in the evolution of inventory management for both the heavy equipment and real estate marketplaces. From this leadership focus come numerous press releases and news articles about Point2 Agent, system launches, enhancements, company initiatives, and more.
Online Dominance – A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words
By: Carrie Gable Read this article on Online Dominance Due to the marketing power of the Internet and the fact that 87%+ of buyers use this as their source for finding a home; it becomes clear that having eye catching photographs is vital! According to a study on Point2, the argument for real estate photography is clear. After monitoring [...]
Inman News – RPR courting MLSs
By: Matt Carter Read this article on INMAN News NEW YORK — National Association of Realtors subsidiary Realtors Property Resource LLC says it will include non-compete agreements when entering into one-year licensing agreements with multiple listing services that agree to contribute their listings data to its national property database. By promising not to compete with MLSs — and [...]
The StarPhoenix – Klein recognized for real estate innovation
By: Cassandra Kyle Read this article on The StarPhoenix For the fifth year in a row, the CEO of Saskatoon’s Point2 Technologies Inc. has been named to a list of 100 influential real estate leaders. Saul Klein, who has worked in the industry for 35 years, has been named to the Inman News list, appearing in the technology [...]
Huliq News – Real Estate Sales Agents Optimistic About Long Term Housing
By: Michele Lerner Read this article on Huliq News Point2 Technologies provides a monthly survey of real estate brokers and agents across the United States known as the Real Estate Confidence Index. The poll dropped slightly in December 2009, but remained relatively optimistic about the state of the housing market in 2010. The federal government tax credit program [...]
REALTOR Magazine – Real Estate Confidence Remains Strong
By: REALTOR Magazine Read this article on: REALTOR Magazine Online Real estate practitioners surveyed for Point2 Technologies’ December Real Estate Confidence Index were a little less optimistic than they were in November, but still the index was in positive territory at 5.91 on a 1- to 10-point scale. The index reached 6.03 in November, its highest since the [...]
RISMedia – Real Estate Broker and Agent Confidence Edges Lower in December – Long Term Outlook Healthy
By: RISMedia Read this article on RISMedia RISMEDIA, January 8, 2010—Confidence amongst real estate professionals surveyed as part of Point2 Technologies’ monthly Real Estate Confidence Index (RECI) poll droppedmarginally in December 2009, but maintained relative optimism, with the national Index holding in positive territory at 5.91 on the 1-10 scale, Point2 recently announced. The national RECI registered a [...]
INMAN News – Confidence Slips Among Agents, Brokers
By: INMAN News Read this article on INMAN News Confidence among real estate agents and brokers dipped in December after a heady rise in November, according to a monthly survey conducted by real estate tech company Point2 Technologies. The company’s monthly Real Estate Confidence Index (RECI) registered 5.91 nationally (10 is highest), almost 2 percent lower than in [...]
RISMedia – MLS 5.0 as an Authoritative Source – Take Back Your Future
MLS Matters. By: Saul Klein Read this article on RISMedia The MLS has historically concentrated on providing information and support to its paid users, brokers and their agents. MLS was created and continues to operate effectively as a B2B (business-to-business) network of competitors who cooperate and share compensation for acts for which a real estate license is [...]
Inman News – The Inman 100: Most Influential Leaders
By: Inman News View this article on Inman News Inman News today releases an annual report that highlights the real estate industry’s 100 most influential people This latest list of 100 leaders, who either work in the real estate industry or whose work impacts the real estate industry, includes brokers, technologists, trade group and multiple listing service representatives, [...]
Inman News – From high seas to navigating the Net
Real Estate Connect Speaker Profile: Saul Klein By: Inman News View this article on Inman News Saul Klein, a pioneer in online real estate and self-proclaimed “Internet Evangelist,” will discuss new strategies for multiple listing services at the Real Estate Connect conference in New York City, which runs from Jan. 13-15, 2010. Klein is CEO of both InternetCrusade in [...]
The StarPhoenix – Point2 keeps eye on expansion
By: Cassandra Kyle View this article on The StarPhoenix When Saul Klein leaves Saskatoon on Friday for his family home in San Diego, Calif., the CEO of Point2 Technologies Inc. will be celebrating a successful 2009 business year. Klein, who works out of the company’s Saskatoon office every other week, says the past year has brought about a [...]
RealTown – Five Strategies to Build Your Business from Real Estate’s Leading Women
By: RealTown Read this article on RealTown Real estate’s leading female leaders will be convening in Scottsdale from April 21-23 to share strategies as well as to network and have fun. For the 2008 conference, 24 of the 40 attendees were on the “100 Most Influential Women in Real Estate List.”   Here are just five of the highlights from [...]
Build Real Estate Results – 2009 NAR Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers
By: Kathleen Allardyce, President of Getting It Write, Inc. View this article at Build Real Estate Results NAR’s 2009 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers is in print, and available for download.  I haven’t done a thorough analysis on that report since the one I published early in 2008, using the 2007 report, concerning the Lessons [...]
The StarPhoenix – Sask. women hit top 100 power list
By: Cassandra Kyle View this article on The StarPhoenix The Inland Terminal Association of Canada (ITAC) has chosen a well-known Saskatoon agrologist as its new executive director. Kevin Hursh, who operates a grain farm near Cabri and is an investor in an inland terminal, will represent the association, which has grown to a size where the role played [...]
1000Watt Consulting – “Productizing” the Realtor mind
By: Brian Boero View this article on 1000 Watt Consulting One of most interesting (if misguided) things about the RPR project is the drive to create an online property valuation “Gold Standard.” The RPR team intends to do this by layering Realtors’ street-level assessments of value on top of the algorithmic magic that can be worked with [...]
RIS Media – Enabling Innovation – MLS 5.0
MLS Matters by Saul Klein RISMEDIA, November 18, 2009—Theoretically, the future MLS, or MLS 5.0, is exemplary in its design and capabilities. The investment in time and resources the industry has made getting us to where we are today is magnificent. It has put the real estate industry amongst a select number of sectors known to [...]
The StarPhoenix – Point2 gains more contracts
THE STARPHOENIX View this article on The StarPhoenix Point2 Technologies Inc. has added another 10 multiple listing service and real estate association contracts to its books, bringing its 12-month total to more than 100 partnerships representing 125,000 real estate brokers and agents and more than 550,000 listings in the United States. The Saskatoon-based company has been forming partnerships [...]
Naples News – Fort Myers Realtor association partners with Point2 Technologies
The Realtor Association of Greater Fort Myers and the Beach Inc. a 5,000-broker and agent member organization and one of the 10 largest real estate boards in Florida, announced that it has completed the implementation of a national online listing exposure initiative in partnership with Point2 Technologies Inc. (Point2) that will significantly expand online visibility [...]
Leader-Post – Local firms do well at ABEX
The Leader-Post and Canwest News Service View this article on Leader-Post Three Regina companies took home some hardware at the 26th annual Achievement in Business Excellence (ABEX) awards, organized by the Saskatchewan Chamber of Commerce. Ten of the 15 awards handed out Saturday night at TCU Place went to Saskatoon-based companies, including two to North Ridge Development Corp., [...]
The StarPhoenix – City firms top ABEX list ‘Saskatoon’s night’ as North Ridge named Business of the Year
By Jeremy Warren View this article on The StarPhoenix Business is good in Saskatoon, if the amount of hardware given to city companies at the 26th annual Achievement in Business Excellence (ABEX) Awards dinner is any indication. Ten of the 15 awards handed out Saturday night at TCU Place went to Saskatoon-based companies, including two to North Ridge [...]
Point2 among top employers – Star Phoenix
By Jenn Sharp Saskatoon’s Point2 Technologies was founded in 1996 by five entrepreneurs who saw the power of the Internet as a useful sales and marketing tool for an industry that was struggling to sell its product in the global marketplace. Company president Barry Willick said they decided to focus on Internet-based software that could be used [...]
Don’t Tell Anyone What I’ve Done with My Website – RIS Media
By Mike Parker RISMEDIA, — I was recently informed that one of our new online marketing services clients had experienced success ridiculously quickly. I found it hard to believe that someone could sell a home to their first lead from their website, and obtain that lead in their first month of using it, so I wrote the [...]
APPN.com – Local Briefs
Association forms partnership The Monmouth County Association of Realtors, provider of the Monmouth/Ocean Multiple Listing Service, announced its partnership with Point2 Technologies, which will provide property listing distribution of the industry's largest syndication and re-syndication network of nearly 40 third party, high traffic Web sites and search engines, as well as more than 260 newspaper Web [...]
REM Online – Saskatchewan links with listing syndication service
By Kathy Bevan The Association of Saskatchewan Realtors (ASR) has joined with Point2 Technologies to establish the first national real estate listing syndication program to be set up in Canada by a regional organized real estate association. The syndication service plans to complement CREA’s national Realtor.ca listing website, by offering Saskatchewan brokers and salespeople the option of [...]
RISMEDIA – The MLS of the Future – A Seismic Shift, Technologically and Generationally Driven
MLS Matters by Saul Klein Once MLS 5.0 has been fully implemented, the changes that will have occurred in the real estate landscape will be equivalent to a seismic shift of catastrophic proportions, catastrophic to those who refuse to adapt. Traditional MLSs, Realtor associations, franchises, brokerages, teams and agents that embrace these scalable, visionary initiatives will provide unprecedented [...]
REM Online – More photos get more viewers
A study by Point2 Technologies, a provider of website and listing syndication software for real estate professionals, says home buyers are more attracted to online listings that have lots of photos. The study set out to examine the impact of photos in driving real estate transactions, as part of a broker’s or agent’s online marketing efforts. [...]
Point2, ASR Implement Program
The StarPhoenix A local company and a provincial real estate association have teamed up to implement Canada's first national real estate listing program by a regional association. Point2 Technologies Inc., which employs more than 120 people at its corporate office in Saskatoon, and the Association of Saskatchewan Realtors (ASR) said Wednesday the national listing syndication program is [...]
The MLS of the Future – Understanding MLS 5.0
MLS Matters by Saul Klein RISMEDIA, – MLS 5.0 is constructed as a property Wiki. While traditional MLS is listing or transaction based, MLS 5.0 is parcel based. A sale or transaction is but a moment in time in the life of a property. Information about properties may be needed during periods other than a transaction [...]
Point2 signs deal with association
The StarPhoenix Point2 Technologies Inc. has signed a deal with one of the largest real-estate associations in the United States. The Saskatoon-based company and the Southland Regional Association of Realtors have implemented a major program designed to extend advanced property listing syndication technology to the association's 10,000 real-estate brokers and agents in the San Fernando and Santa [...]
Companies making news
Detroit Free Press – Freep.com • Ann Arbor-based SchoolPictures.com, a provider of school pictures, donated more than $2 million to Michigan schools that have used its portrait services in the four years since its founding. This milestone validates the company's mission to supplement funding for education and improve the academic environment for children while providing pictures. Partnerships • [...]
Trulia gets Houston listings
Inman News HAR listings on Zillow, Cyberhomes, Google Base, Realtor.com The Houston Association of Realtors has added Trulia to the list of Web sites it pushes listings to, under a partnership that will automatically feed more than 50,000 for-sale property listings to Trulia.com. Other multiple listing services (MLSs) providing direct feeds to Trulia.com include MLSPIN, CLAW, MLSLI and [...]
Agents see better market in 12-18 months
Inman News Survey is basis for company's 'Real Estate Confidence Index' Nearly two out of three estate professionals rated current market conditions on the bottom half of a 10-point scale in July, but were considerably more optimistic about the near- and long-term outlooks. That's according to surveys of more than 3,000 agents in the U.S. and Canada who [...]
Sorting out real estate data, politics
Inman News  Real Estate Connect Speaker Profile: Zach Scott What new features are in the pipeline? Obviously our focus is still very much on providing value to Realtors by aggregating their data from the MLSs. We're working hard on that and have a number of new MLS clients announced, many more in the pipeline, and more [...]
MLS Matters by Saul Klein
RISMEDIA While potentially at risk of becoming irrelevant in the next generation, MLS has within its power the assets needed to continue to lead the real estate industry and become an even stronger, more essential player in the future. It is important to note that no other entity or organization in our space has what we [...]
10 Ways to Sell. Point2’s CEO Saul Klein, on social networking.
Real Estate Today Radio interview with Point2’s CEO Saul Klein, on social networking. Listen
MLS 5.0-The MLS of the Future
Internet Strategies by Saul Klein, Part 1 RISMEDIA, What will be required to build on the current solid foundation of today’s MLS? Here is part of the MLS 5.0 whitepaper, a vision that attempts to answer the question and creates a basis for an industry discussion. Open and frank discussion is essential to creating the tools and [...]
Zap negativity, tap distribution
By Bernice Ross Inman News Need help building your online business? Check out what real estate’s leading women had to share at the recent AFIRE (Awesome Females in Real Estate) conference in Savannah, Ga. 1. Distribution trumps destination Jennifer Anderson of Point2Agent explained how “distribution trumps destination.” In other words, it is more important to have your listings [...]
Internet Search, Standardized Data Fields, and the Changing Role
by Saul KleinCEO, Point2 Technologies Inc.  Today, if you want to find out anything about anything, where do you go? There is a high probability that you go to Google. So ingrained in our culture is the power of Google search, that Google has become a verb. On a daily basis, many of us “google” one [...]
How to Improve Your Google Ranking Using Video Virtual Tours
By Bernice Ross  Several months ago a number of articles appeared on the Internet saying that Google had once again changed their algorithms (i.e., the mathematical formula that they use to determine organic web rankings.) To get "Google juice" or good ranking, the algorithm now appears to place the greatest value on videos. After that, pod [...]
MLS Public-Facing Websites-Build or Buy?
By Saul Klein RISMEDIA, -Progressive MLSs have adopted new thinking and launched platforms designed to generate more exposure and leads for their subscribers and participants. Approximately 400 MLSs in the U.S. have now introduced consumer-facing websites to allow home buyers and sellers to research local listings as they would on sites such as Realtor.com, Yahoo!, Point2 [...]
Real Estate Marketing Report Card Keeps Agents, Brokers on their Toes
By Joel Burslem International Listings, an search portal for global luxury properties, has put together a very clever marketing device they’re calling their Real Estate Marketing Report Card. The idea is pretty simple; a seller can punch in their address and listing price and the system will quickly check a handful of real estate search destinations to [...]
The Real Estate Agent of the Future
Asked what skills future realty agents will need to compete, Saul Klein–president and CEO of InternetCrusade and CEO of Point2Technologies–cites product knowledge, sales competency, access to customers, and service with integrity. More specifically, he says an agent working in 2015 will need the ability to communicate effectively across generational spans as the different age groups move [...]
MLS Public Facing Websites – Why, or Why Not?
By: Saul Klein, CEO, Point2 Technologies Inc. If you believe that Distribution Trumps Destination at this stage of the evolution of real estate on the WWW, that the distribution of listing information to many consumer accessible and trafficked web sites is far more important than listing information appearing on any single web site, then it is [...]
Connecting Online
Real Trends  Social networking is becoming a hip, new way to network with consumers and professionals. It may take time, but its low (or no) cost publicity for you and your brokerage. But, with so many options out there, which one is worth your time? REAL Trends spoke with three real estate professionals about what they use [...]
Reshaping Real Estate
By Maria Patterson, Stephanie Andre, and Paige Tepping RISMedia The close of the year often begs a retrospective approach to the events that took place-good, bad or otherwise. The sharp edges are often dulled in hindsight, motivated by the desire to put it all behind us and move on to the fresh promise of a new year. For [...]
Zillow scores Houston listings
HAR will feed data on more than 60,000 properties By Matt Carter, Inman News Zillow.com has reached an agreement to automatically receive more than 60,000 listings from the nation's second-largest Realtor association, the Houston Association of Realtors, the companies said today. Launched a year ago, Zillow's listings feed program allows any broker, multiple listing service or vendor with [...]
Internet 'evangelist' promotes real estate tech
By Lai Saetern, Inman News It all began with an advertisement in the newspaper over three decades ago. After serving for five years in the U.S. Navy as a surface warfare officer, Saul Klein was ready for a change. He sought a career with better pay and plenty of room for advancement. It made sense for Klein [...]
Changes taking place at Point2 Technologies Inc.
Cassandra Kyle, The StarPhoenix Saskatoon's Point2 Technologies Inc., an employer of 113 people, is beginning to take its product in a new direction. The software development company is moving away from promoting its online real estate programs to individual agents, instead looking to regional real estate agencies for contracts. SP reporter Cassandra Kyle recently sat down [...]
Point2, GEPAR become partners
Canwest News Service Point2 Technologies Inc. has entered into a partnership with the Greater El Paso Association of Realtors (GEPAR), giving the association’s members access to individually branded Point2 Agent websites. The Saskatoon-based company, which develops and markets web-based e-commerce and online marketing software for the real estate and heavy equipment industries, announced the partnership with [...]
Point2 Agent Solution launched in Massachusetts
The StarPhoenix Real estate markets in Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard, Nantucket and other communities in Massachusetts now have access to Saskatoon’s Point2 Technologies Inc.’s Agent Solution System. The company and Cape Cod and Islands Multiple Listing Service (MLS) Inc. jointly launched Point2 Agent Solution in Massachusetts this week. The service is set to automate listing syndication for Cape [...]
Point2 reaches Mass.
Regina Leader Post SASKATOON — Real estate markets in Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard, Nantucket and other communities in Massachusetts now have access to Saskatoon’s Point2 Technologies Inc.’s Agent Solution System. The company and Cape Cod and Islands Multiple Listing Service (MLS) Inc. jointly launched Point2 Agent Solution in Massachusetts this week. The service is set to [...]
Real estate data in high gear
By Patrick Cassidy, Cape Cod Times HYANNIS — The real estate market on Cape Cod and the islands went “back to the future” yesterday. Much like in the 1985 Michael J. Fox movie by the same name, officials from the Cape Cod and Islands Multiple Listing Service Inc. took a look back as they revved up for [...]
Point2 to syndicate Realcomp listings
Inman News Michigan’s biggest multiple listing service, Realcomp, will send listings to syndicator Point2 Technologies Inc. when authorized by member brokers and agents, the companies said today. Realcomp members will be able to send their listings to any or all of Point2’s more than 30 listing syndication partners, including Cyberhomes, eBay, Google Base, Homescape, Point2 Homes, Trulia [...]
What Is MLS 5.0?
RISMEDIA Time is of the essence. The real estate industry has the opportunity to “take back its future.” In order to do so, it must begin the process of socializing and implementing MLS 5.0. While many in the real estate industry have heard of Web 2.0, with all the press it has received, few understand or can [...]
A proposal for 'MLS 5.0'
Industry veteran envisions marriage of MLS, Web 2.0 Inman News Multiple listing services are not dead or irrelevant, real estate technology industry guru Saul Klein says in a paper released this week, though they must evolve to embrace Web 2.0 ideals and expand beyond for-sale listing information to encompass parcel-based information. It’s not an entirely new concept for [...]
Taking Your Technology Back to Basics
Internet Strategies by Saul Klein RISMEDIA Most Realtors have access to cost-effective technology that they can use to build their business. Often, however, the technology is applied ineffectively, and outside of the context of a plan. Take websites, for example, which, for the most part, are “billboards on the middle of nowhere” and a waste of [...]
MLS stakeholders take on syndication, public sites
Discussions focus on ‘The Future of MLS’ By Glenn Roberts Jr., Inman News SAN FRANCISCO — Cameron Paine, CEO for Connecticut Multiple Listing Service Inc., a broker-controlled statewide multiple listing service that launched in February 2007, said smaller MLSs are in danger of becoming irrelevant. And what many MLSs don’t seem to understand — and [...]
Senate Approved Housing Rescue Package, Real Estate Industry Reacts
RIS Media The Senate cleared a massive housing bill on Saturday designed to prop up the struggling U.S. housing market and put in place a U.S. backstop for giant mortgage-buyers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Senate lawmakers approved the bill, which contains billions of dollars in loan guarantees, a tax break for first-time home buyers and many [...]
Picture this: More online photos means more interest in home
by: Amy Hoak, Market Watch To sell a home with an Internet listing, it pays to provide pictures — and lots of them, according to a recent study from an e-commerce and online marketing firm that serves the real-estate industry. Compared with listings that had only one photo, those that had 21 or more photos received double [...]
Too much exposure can be a bad thing
How many photos are overkill for a listing? by: Bernice Ross, Inman News Are you marketing your listings with just one picture or are you marketing with 20 or more? Is it possible that too many pictures online is preventing buyers from looking at your property? The research is clear that having only a single photo of your [...]
Point2, Local Matters team up on Facebook app
Companies seek to capitalize on popular social network Inman News  Point2 Technologies Inc., which offers online tools for real estate professionals, and media technology company Local Matters Inc. on Wednesday announced an agreement in operating Point2's Facebook Neighborhoods application. The application for Facebook, a social networking site with about 70 million active users, draws from Point2's database of [...]
U.S. firm acquires Point2 application
The StarPhoenix  A Facebook application developed by a Saskatoon company has been acquired by a U.S. online media publisher. The deal involving Point2 Technologies Inc.'s Facebook Neighborhoods application will allow the company to maintain and develop the application's database while Local Matters Inc. will assume marketing and development efforts for the program. The application draws on Point2's database [...]
Facebook "Neighborhoods" app sold
I didn't realize that Saskatoon was a hotbed of software development, but that's where a Facebook real estate application was developed by Point2 Technologies. Point2, a 100-person company that also has offices in Vancouver, B.C., is a big player in the real estate software industry, producing software for syndicating listings. That platform was the basis for [...]
Online Home Listings Provider Local Matters Buys Point2’s Facebook App
By David Kaplan Local search marketer Local Matters has acquired online real estate listings syndicator Point2 Technologies’ Facebook app. Financial terms were not released. Point2 had been hoping to get attention for its “Neighborhoods for Facebook” app, which it released last summer. Point2 claims that 800,000 Facebook users have downloaded the app, which is aimed [...]
Point2 and RealtyTrac Enter Marketing Partnership
RISMEDIA Point2 Technologies Inc. (”Point2?), one of the industry’s largest independent providers of website and listing syndication software for real estate professionals, and RealtyTrac Inc., a leading online marketplace for foreclosure properties, announced a marketing partnership agreement that aims to extend both organizations’ market reach and exposure while establishing new revenue streams at the same time. According [...]
Syndication & Your Business
RISMEDIA Today, the word “syndication” is used in the real estate industry to express the distribution of listing information to various websites and/or Web portals. While it was once thought that exposing a listing in one spot on the Internet and driving consumers to that spot (the early theory for Realtor.com) was the best way to [...]
Rapid Growth of Mexican MLS Contributes to Open Market
Buyers, Sellers, and Brokers Benefit from Internet Technology By Brian Flock: Mexidata.info guest columnist The rapid growth in use of a new Internet technology over the past two years by Mexico real estate brokers has resulted in a de facto Mexican multiple listing service (MLS). The new system better serves buyers and sellers of real estate throughout [...]
Syndication Standard – NAR and Industry Partners Agree
RISMEDIA, April 15, 2008 The National Association of Realtors® and other industry members of the Real Estate Standards Organization have unanimously approved a draft standardized data format for distributing real estate listing information. Real Estate Transaction Standard, an industry effort initiated by NAR and maintained by RESO, simplifies the process of sending real estate information by allowing [...]
Agent Increases Income $200K Harnessing the Internet
REALTOR Fine Tunes Web Marketing Strategy with Dramatic Results    by: Mike Parker Priscilla Allen is a RE/MAX broker in San Antonio, TX. In 2006, she and her husband, along with a long time associate, were the 25th ranked team in San Antonio; in 2007, they were the 10th. RE/MAX singled this little team out as the [...]
Facebook seminar offered by firm
by: Mallory Vough, Wilkes-Barre Times Leader Establishment business people – at least those above the age of 30 – might think Facebook is a publication filled with photographs of people showing off their finest toothy grins. But in fact Facebook is one of the most popular Web sites on the Internet, with a claimed 70 [...]
Clicking With Buyers
By Renae MerleWashington Post Staff WriterSaturday, April 12, 2008; Page F01 Cindy Lawson won't venture from her sofa for anything less than a two-bedroom condominium with a parking space and washer and dryer. In the meantime, she continues her year-long search by scanning the list of Arlington homes in her price range that is sent to her [...]
The Successful Combination of Photography and Real Estate
Commentary by Gar Benedick RISMEDIA, – Pictures that are poor or less-than-flattering can turn buyers off, leading to fewer leads and offers. In real estate, good pictures–the right pictures–are worth more than a thousand words-they can be worth thousands of dollars. According to a survey of buyers and sellers by the National Association of Realtors, 80% of [...]
NAR may call Realogy, RE/MAX officials as witnesses in DOJ case
Court document reveals preliminary list of possible witnessesBy Inman News, Thursday, March 27, 2008. The National Association of Realtors has plans to call nine witnesses to testify in court if an antitrust lawsuit filed by the U.S. Justice Department proceeds to trial, and may call upon an additional list of 14 witnesses. A preliminary live trial witness [...]
Point2 makes Belize deal
The StarPhoenix Published: Thursday, February 28, 2008 Realtors in Belize have embraced made-in-Saskatoon technology to create and launch the South American country’s online real estate listing system. The Belize National Association of Realtors (BNAR) chose to work with Point2 Technologies Inc. to create its multiple listing service (MLS) system based on the Saskatoon company’s national listing service (NLS) platform. [...]
Agents: Stop dripping and start predicting
Tech innovations to jump-start real estate biz Friday, February 08, 2008 By Bernice RossInman News Are you ready to jump-start your business? Upgrading your technology is one of the fastest ways to do it. If you need some help, here are some important innovations to consider. 1. Stop dripping and start predicting Instead of using drip e-mail, a process in [...]
How to tell if a listing is overpriced
New technology creates data that are tough to refute Friday, February 01, 2008 By Bernice RossInman News Persuading sellers to be realistic is a consistent challenge for any real estate agent, especially in a slowing or a declining market. Recent technological innovations make this much easier than ever before. In previous columns, I have discussed how to use rate-of-absorption [...]
Trulia, Zillow, Yahoo! pioneer listings data standard
Brokers can send same feed to many Web sites Thursday, January 10, 2008 Inman News Nearly a dozen Web sites that aggregate for-sale real estate listings — including Trulia, Zillow and Yahoo! Real Estate — have agreed to adopt common data standards that will make it possible for brokers to send a single listings feed to multiple [...]
NAR: Settlement talks likely to continue in DOJ antitrust case
Realtor group says both sides are open to discussion Thursday, January 03, 2008 By Glenn Roberts Jr. Inman News Representatives for the National Association of Realtors have engaged in talks with U.S. Justice Department officials in an effort to resolve a 2-year-old antitrust lawsuit, and both parties are open to continuing the dialogue, according to a spokesman for the Realtor [...]
What's hot in real estate technology?
Video, lead systems and radio commercial services stand out Friday, December 28, 2007 By Bernice Ross Inman News The biggest surprise at the National Association of Realtors’ tradeshow this year was the lack of new technology. Nevertheless, there were a number of new products that could help you build your business in 2008. If you’ve been feeling overwhelmed by [...]
Neighborhood wiki's for Real Estate – How to find one, set one up today
By:  Steven Groves, Executive Conversations The answer I have for you – don't do it… Let's back up a minute – what is a wiki? Wikipedia (a wiki itself) defines it as "A wiki is computer software that allows users to easily create, edit and link web pages. Wiki's are often used to create collaborative [...]
Hungry for Bulk Feeds
A Zillow spokeswoman said today that the company has been in discussions with the Houston Association of Realtors to receive property listings information supplied by its members. "We are in discussion with a number of brokerages and organizations about listing feeds," Zillow spokeswoman Amy Bohutinsky told Inman News….(read more)
Zillow, others eye more listings partnerships
Inman News Houston Realtors in talks to partner with real estate media co. Zillow and other online real estate sites are eyeing larger deals for property listings partnerships. A Zillow spokeswoman said today that the company has been in discussions with the Houston Association of Realtors to receive property listings information supplied by its members. “We are in [...]
1,000 Pictures are Worth 1,000 Leads
By Jonathan Nicholas, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Obeo RISMEDIA, Oct. 5, 2007-A couple of years ago, Tom Peters, the renowned business management practice guru, spoke to the Houston Association of REALTORS®. In preparation for his talk, he interviewed six agents as if he was going to list his property. He summed up the [...]
VFlyer lets agents track return on marketing dollar
By Bernice Ross Inman News Part 2 of 2: Technology for a better business Tired of having to go to a separate vendor for your fliers, your Web site marketing and creating unique Web addresses for your listings? If so, VFlyer.com has a solution to make your business soar. One of the most difficult aspects of Web 1.0 was [...]
Opportunity knocks online for Realtors
By Bernice RossInman News Part 1 of 2: Technology for a better business Consolidation is one of the key trends occurring in the real estate industry today. Are you ready to capitalize on this trend in your business? Will there be a single multiple listing service for the entire country? While there has been a heated discussion about this topic, few people have [...]
Why So Many Want to Create Facebook Applications
By RIVA RICHMOND September 4, 2007; Wall Street Journal Page B4 Site's Growing Ranks Seen as Potential Source Of Revenue, Customers Another online gold rush is on. Entrepreneurs are scrambling to create small software programs for Facebook Inc.'s social-networking site and grab footholds in its emerging economy. Three months ago, the Palo Alto, Calif., company invited software developers to create applications [...]
Listing Syndication for Proft: Turning Data Into Dollars
 By: Jeff Tomlin Builder/Architect Vol.18, No.8 Download PDF
lore Live Launched
lore Magazine  Series of Live Broadcasts Discusses Major Issues in the Real Estate Industry  lore Magazine, a magazine devoted to profiling fascinating individuals in the residential real estate industry, has launched a new and compelling series of interviews called “lore Live.” lore Magazine, currently distributed to top agents and leading brokers, is thrilled about the launch of their new podcast videos. The [...]
Debate rises over MLS role in offer of compensation
By Glenn Roberts Jr.Inman News Part 3: Future of MLS: Full speed ahead There is more to a multiple listing service than warehousing data. MLSs are marketplaces for showcasing information about properties, including pricing and property amenities. They are cooperatives that provide neutral ground for industry competitors to work together, make offers of compensation and share data. They are marketing portals [...]
MLS public listing sites gain support
By Jessica SweseyInman News Part 2: Future of MLS: Full speed ahead Consumer-facing multiple listing service Web sites — once taboo and controversial in some markets — are gaining interest again as MLSs scramble to define their value and role in future real estate markets. About 300 MLSs throughout the country currently have consumer-facing Web sites where buyers and sellers [...]
Jay Shares Statistics and Tactics
Jay Thompson Interview – Part 3  Is 95% of a real estate sales professionals business attributed to online social media significant? From his overall web presence (blog, a website or referral from an online associate,) Jay gets 10-12 contacts or a each day from his online presence.  Of course they may be unqualified at that point, but I can probably [...]
Social Media and Real Estate Case Study
Jay Thompson Interview – Part 2  In this segment, Jay continues talking about his use of social media tools from the early days of ActiveRain and how he spends his day; from the first cup of coffee throughout the business day.  He is either blogging, using email, checking his social network tuning his web presence on either his [...]
What Does an Agent2.0 Look Like?
Jay Thompson Interview – Part 1  Jay Thompson / PhoenixRealEstateGuy.com is a blogging icon in the Arizona real estate social media world. His investment in using blogging and social media as virtually his only form of marketing is very much the model of the agent of the future – what I call the Agent2.0™. I've been following Jay [...]
Craigslist community wins Inman Innovator award
Inman News Mortgage Fraud Blog, vFlyer among other category winners SAN FRANCISCO — The craigslist online community in a slight twist from past years received a special Inman Innovator Award for "Innovator of the Year" during Inman News' Real Estate Connect conference in San Francisco this week. The Innovator Awards honor forward-thinking technologies, Web services, business [...]
The Conflicts of Advertising and Listings
by Michael WurzerInman Blog Inman Blog writes today that the Realogy deal with Yahoo! Real Estate doesn’t knock Prudential out of the picture, instead Yahoo! has created (and Realogy apparently agreed t0) a separate “classifieds” section of their search and Prudential still gets the “Homes for Sale” section.  The upshot: you can’t search both Prudential and [...]
Neighbour-friendly
Cassandra Kyle, The StarPhoenix Point2 Technologies Inc. teams with Facebook on search feature It's a beautiful day in the neighbourhood for Saskatoon-based Point2 Technologies Inc. Their latest web-based creation, a Facebook application that connects people by neighbourhood, is gaining more interest as each minute passes. Since the application launched last week, more than 1,200 people have added the feature, using it to [...]
How To Run A Real Estate Brokerage: Suppliers
By Maureen Farrell Forbes.com Every new business owner needs to know the fundamentals. Forbes.com is breaking down those building blocks by answering eight core questions related to a given industry. Taken together, the information will give budding entrepreneurs a head start on making those first critical steps. How do I choose suppliers for my real estate brokerage? [...]
Survival of the niches: getting leads in a slow market
By Glenn Roberts Jr. Inman News Part 1: Lead generation evolves in real estate Editor's note: In this three-part series, Inman News looks at how the changing market is impacting lead generation, how agents are competing for top spots on Google, and how the lending industry faces increased criticism of its use of trigger lists. (Read Part 2, [...]
Point2 Hospitality and Longevity Shines
  Last week I followed in the footsteps of fellow Phoenician and Point2 user, Jay Thompson and was able to meet and greet the team at Point2 Technologies in their native habitat – Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.  Saskatoon is a a beautiful, small community of 207,200 situated on the banks of the South Saskatchewan River.  The Point2 offices [...]
Online Marketing: DOJ vs NAR®
What it might mean to you and what you might want to start doing today. by Michael Parker With all the uncertainties facing the real estate industry today, none has more far-reaching possible implications than the ongoing legal battle between the Department of Justice and the National Association of Realtors®. Nothing less than the entire business model [...]
Inman Innovator Award finalists announced
39 real estate, technology and media companies compete Inman News Inman News today released the finalists' names for the coveted 2007 Inman Innovator Awards, recognizing innovation in real estate. Winners will be announced at the annual Real Estate Connect SF technology conference, Aug. 1-3, at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. Thirty-nine real estate, technology and media [...]
The Impact of User Registration on Generating Real Estate Leads
 By Eric Enge, The ClickZ Network About 6 weeks ago, I wrote a blog post titled 6$ of Web Sites are Real Estate Related. Since then, I have had a chance to look at some aspects of this market in more detail. In this article, I am going to show how slowly this market is maturing, [...]
Point2Homes Thinks Inside the Box
by Joel BurslemFuture of Real Estate Marketing John L. Scott’s Neighborhood Wizard was just the latest by a web site to clean up map based real estate search (see The Evolution of Map Based Searches). And while I called it a ‘gimmick’ in my earlier post, it is an important step forward towards making map searches [...]
Watch what you sign with online listings agreements
Research finds content deals can include far-reaching terms By Glenn Roberts Jr.Inman News While opportunities abound to market properties online, real estate professionals should take heed of what they are signing when they submit property listings content to Web sites they do not control, says a paper prepared for a subsidiary of the Florida Association of Realtors trade [...]
Is a National MLS the Way to Go?
By Stefan Swanepoel RISMEDIA, June 1, 2007-Many think that the notion of a national MLS is a good one. According to Jim Sherry, technically there is no reason a national MLS would not work. He says it’s more about getting the egos out of the way first. The consolidation of MLSs into super-regional ones or even one national MLS has already [...]
Critics Take On "60 Minutes" – With The Help Of YouTube
Posted by Brian Montopoli Earlier this month, “60 Minutes” aired a mostly flattering piece on Redfin, an online real estate company that charges sellers a flat fee of $3,000 instead of a percentage-based commission. You can watch it by clicking on the video box. The segment, headlined “Chipping Away At Realtors’ Six Percent,” infuriated many realtors. The National Association of Realtors [...]
Real Estate website compliance, Social Capital and the Impact of RE Blogging – Final Segment of the Jeff Tomlin interview
In this final segment, the third of three, Jeff Tomlin, Manager of Channel Relations for Point2 and I talk about how the Point2 solution aids in compliance and quality control for a broker.  Jeff goes into how the Point2 Handshake helps build social capital both inside the profession and to the consumer.  At the end of the segment Jeff [...]
Search Engines Take Center Stage at NAR Internet Marketing Summit
NAR, Zillow, Trulia, Point2 NLS and Real Estate Brokers Find Common Ground [...]
Real estate tech panel: Consumers want 'cool stuff'
NAR technologist describes mouse-motion research Monday, May 21, 2007 By Glenn Roberts Jr.Inman News WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Houston Association of Realtors plays an active role in marketing members’ property listings. The association sends property information from its multiple listing service into an association-operated public Web site that also features a home-valuation tool and agent profiles. The association aggressively advertises the search site on billboards, though [...]
Point2 NLS, 1 Touch Publishing and Pricing- Segment 2 of the Jeff Tomlin interview
Point2 gives away their websites, publishes syndication data to over 23 consumer real estate sites and offer a 1 touch publishing solution.   Jeff Tomlin, Manager of Channel Relations (and an avid blogger at Real Estate Alchemy) tells us more about how they do in this second segment of the interview. It also allow some to step up the [...]
Cyberhomes, Zillow seek for-sale data from brokers
Fidelity announces agreement with Keller Williams Friday, May 18, 2007 By Glenn Roberts Jr.Inman News Cyberhomes.com, an automated home-valuation site operated by Fidelity National Real Estate Solutions, is now open to for-sale property listings information, Fidelity officials announced Thursday. The field of property-search Web sites has grown rapidly in the past few years, with newcomer sites such as Cyberhomes,Google Base, HomePages.com, Point2NLS.com, PropertyShark.com, Propsmart.com, [...]
Point2 NLS Expands Real Estate Listing Syndication Network
RISMEDIA, May 17, 2007-Point2 Technologies Inc. has announced that it has expanded its Point2 NLS listing syndication network, adding 10 new consumer-facing advertising destinations for members’ listings. The most recent sites to start drawing live Point2 NLS listing data feeds include HotPads.com, Vast.com and CityCribs.com. Newcomers also include Propbot.com, House.com, VideoHomes.com and TheHousingPages.com. In early March, Point2 also added simplified, [...]
Point2 expands real estate listings syndication
Brokers can choose 10 more Web sites to market listings Wednesday, May 16, 2007 Inman News As more consumers go online for real estate information, brokers are being offered an array of choices by which to market their listings to a wider audience. Some companies, including Point2 Technologies, are trying to simplify a complicated process of syndicating listings to a variety of different [...]
Point2 Interview with Jeff Tomlin & Kicking off podcasting at StevenGroves.com
Agent2.0 is not just about technology, but technology is what I like to write about.  A real estate agent is a small business person and like every business out there, they should have a website as an underpinning of their marketing program.  Website are available to agents and brokers range from free to several thousands dollars and almost every price [...]
A 'Great Conspiracy' or a Demand for More Visible Value
By Mike Parker RISMEDIA, March 22, 2007-In a dynamic and stimulating presentation given at the Association Executives Institute Conference February 19 in San Diego, Blanche Evans, editor of Realty Times, woke up many in the audience with her call to action. Evans presentation, titled: “The Conspiracy to Put You Out of Business and How You Can Help Your Agents & [...]
Niche Web Sites: A Success Story
BY MICHAEL RUSSERBroker Agent News It’s advice you often hear in the real estate business: To be successful, you must find a profitable niche and gear your marketing to that specific audience. However, when it comes to online marketing, few practitioners take that advice to heart. Here, I hope to show you why it’s worth it to transform your Web [...]
How the Internet is Reshaping Real Estate
By Stefan Swanepoel RISMEDIA, April 27, 2007-Last month, we highlighted some of the trends affecting today’s home buying and selling consumer as reported in the recently released Swanepoel TRENDS Report. This month, we explore author Stefan Swanepoel’s views on the impact of the Internet on our industry. Here, Swanepoel details how technology is changing the real estate business for the long [...]
Point2 Technologies & InternetCrusade implement Single Sign On
Point2 Technologies Inc. and InternetCrusade’s RealTown have introduced Single Sign On (SSO), a Web authentication initiative that will enable members of Point2 NLS (Point2 National Listing Service) and RealTown.com to access or sign up to either system directly from their respective Online Office, using their existing credentials, identity and pass codes. “There are many situations in the real estate industry where Single [...]
VFlyer launches wireless tools
Users can send, view ads using mobile devices Inman News VFlyer, a company that builds marketing tools for real estate professionals to distribute and showcase property listings, today announced that it has entered the mobile realm with the rollout of wireless Internet and text-messaging tools. With this latest innovation, vFlyer users can send or view property ads on mobile [...]
Is a National MLS the Way To Go?
By Stefan Swanepoel RISMEDIA, April 13, 2007-Many think that the notion of a national MLS is a good one. According to Jim Sherry, technically there is no reason a national MLS would not work. He says it’s more about getting the egos out of the way first. The consolidation of MLSs into super-regional ones or even one national MLS has already [...]
Online Marketing: Is There a Conspiracy or Is It Evolution?
by Michael E. Parker In a dynamic and stimulating presentation given at the Association Executives Institute Conference February 19 in San Diego , Blanche Evans, Editor of Realty Times, woke up many in the audience with her call to action. Ms. Evans presentation, entitled: The Conspiracy to Put You Out of Business and How You Can Help Your Agents [...]
Networking Sites Give New Way to Prospect
Real estate practitioners are trying out an array of social networking Web sites as a way to connect with consumers and other industry professionals. Twitter.com, for example, allows users to send phone or computer text messages to provide personal or business updates to other users. Other sites are focused more on the real estate niche, including RealEstateVoices.com and RELiberation.com, let [...]
Hello, my name is "LetMeIn YourSite"
To attach a lead form or not to attach a lead form — believe it or not that’s still a pretty hot-button issue in the real estate industry. Not long ago pretty much every Web site with real estate listings on it required consumers to fill out a form before they could get access to the goodies. The form [...]
Point2 goes public with Web site usage information
Company provides real-time data on Web traffic, member stats Monday, March 26, 2007 Inman News Point2, a technology company that offers online tools for real estate professionals including a National Listing Service that allows members to manage the marketing of other property listings, has opened its user statistics to the world. The company today announced the public availability of several company statistics, including membership, [...]
Training & Business Development: Follow-up Debate over a National MLS
RISMEDIA, March 21, 2007-Following Monday’s lead article on RISMedia.com, by Stefan Swanepoel titled “MLS: Industry Asset or Public Utility,” a debate has arisen on RealBlogging.com as to whether Trulia can or should become a national MLS. The discussion on this topic was recently fueled by Trulia’s announcement that they had, in addition to their agreement with the Keller Williams [...]
Industry experiments with social networking sites
Part 3: Social media and real estate By Glenn Roberts Jr. [...]
5 business functions to automate
Technology is a great time saving tool, but only if you use it. Here are five tasks you can automate: 1. Distributing listing data. Use syndication software, such as Point2Agent’s (http://agent.point2.com) Point2 Exposure Engine, to automatically push listing data to multiple real estate Web sites. You enter the data once, and the software does the rest. 2. Replying to e-mail. Use [...]
Realogy pushes property listings to Google, Trulia
Agreements represent more online exposure for sellers Friday, March 02, 2007 Inman News Real estate giant Realogy Corp. (NYSE: H), with corporate brands including Coldwell Banker, Century 21 and ERA, today announced a major play to broaden its online exposure for property listings that are represented by company-owned and franchise offices. About 500,000 Realogy-affiliated property listings that appear at the Century21.com, ColdwellBanker.com and [...]
Ditch the paper and the suburbs
Part 6: New business trends in ‘07 Friday, February 23, 2007 By Bernice RossInman News (This is Part 6 of a six-part series. Read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 and Part 5.) Our last five articles have examined the demographic, digital, economic and Web trends will influence your business in 2007. Today’s article examines six more trends that will [...]
Tech tools create lead-conversion opportunity
Part 5: New business trends in ‘07 Friday, February 16, 2007 By Bernice RossInman News (This is Part 5 of a six-part series. Read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4.) If you’re not up-to-date on today’s technology, your business may be gradually eroding away. To avoid going the way of the dinosaurs, it’s imperative that you update your technology tools now. Our last four articles examined how demographic, [...]
Real estate's role in the new Web
Part 4: New business trends in ‘07 (This is Part 3 of a six-part series. Read Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3.) What will Web 3.0 look like and how will it influence your business in 2007? No matter what happens, the rate of change is only increasing rather than slowing down. Over the last three weeks, we have examined how demographic, digital and [...]
Brokers get 'liberated' at new community site
Point2 Technologies unveils REliberation.com Inman News Point2 Technologies has unveiled a new broker community site, REliberation.com, for its broker and agent customers to collaborate, promote and drive future successes and advance key industry issues through discussion, debate and opinion sharing. The beta site made its debut on Jan. 26, and has attracted hundreds of authors and contributors discussing key issues such as the [...]
Real estate's role in the new Web
Part 4: New business trends in ‘07 By Bernice Ross Inman News (This is Part 4 of a six-part series. Read Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3.) What will Web 3.0 look like and how will it influence your business in 2007? No [...]
Just What Exactly Is Web 2.0?
By Michael J. Russer Realty Times In this day and age of hyper-change a lot of new terminology gets bantered about. “Web 2.0″ is the latest that has created a considerable amount of buzz, yet no one seems to have a [...]
Where and how brokers partner online
Part 2: New age of online marketing and ROI By Glenn Roberts Jr. Inman News Editor’s note: Online marketing in real estate is quickly moving forward as brokers test new methods for reaching consumers on the Internet. Marketing choices have grown more complicated with a larger selection of Web sites to promote property listings and a growing list of lead generation and management [...]
RealTown brings industry content to consumers
By Glenn Roberts Jr. Inman News A new Internet portal launches today with a depth of real estate-related content created by a thousands-strong community of real estate professionals. The site, RealTown.com, also features links to hundreds of multiple listing service-operated property-search Web sites, a database of properties maintained by real estate technology company Point2, and an agent-search tool. The new site includes a consumer-facing collection of [...]
Confessions Of A Reformed Real Estate Webmistress
Abandoning a Do-It-Yourself Web Strategy By Frances Flynn Thorsen My year-end technology audit was full of FrontPage updates, new software, and a host of add-ons for my real estate web site. Each aspect of web authoring technology has a learning curve that involves time and labor. Each year the time and labor associated with a do-it-yourself web site grows. The new millennium spawned [...]
Point2 launches 'NLS' for real estate professionals
Free system puts agents in charge of Web marketing By Glenn Roberts Jr. Inman News A real estate technology company today launched a free international service to assist real estate professionals with marketing properties online, establishing agreements with other professionals [...]
Point2 Achieves 100,000 Real Estate Software Subscribers Milestone
Top Realty News iSuccess.com Real estate platform aims to connect members with Internet consumers ahead of their competitors Point2 has announced that subscriptions to its real estate online marketing and lead management software, led by the industry’s most widely used [...]
Integration rounds out lead management picture
Real Estate Technology News A marketing and integration agreement between Point2 Technologies and RealEstate.com gives agents access to lead incubation and conversion tools. Read on to see why the groups believe the time is right for lead management technology to take off. Point2 [...]
RealEstate.com inks marketing agreement with Point2
Point2 supplies lead incubation, conversion tools Inman News LendingTree’s RealEstate.com has partnered with Canadian tech company Point2 Technologies Inc. to offer Point2’s real [...]
Point2 Technologies Launches Rental Real Estate Marketing and Lead Management Software Platform
Top Realty News Point2 PropMan designed to increase property manager productivity and facilitate rental listing marketing for Point2 broker and Point2 agent users Point2 Technologies Inc. has launched Point2 PropMan, a rental real estate online marketing and lead management software platform targeted at property [...]
Top of the Heap
Top of the Heap – Realtor Magazine [PDF]
Listings portal gets $5 million in funding
Edgeio muscles up as listings search powerhouse Inman News Edgeio, a service for online classified listings that launched this year, has raised $5 [...]
Down To Earth
Real estate developers are a major target audience for Google Earth. In India, they, like their US counterparts such as Point2 and Earth Point (www.earthpoint.us) have started to use Google Earth. Real estate developers such as the Prestige Group and Goel Ganga Group, both based in Pune, have been using Google Earth in their businesses [...]
Point2 announces real estate agent directory
Tool allows neighborhood-specific searches Inman News Point2 Technoligies Inc. has introduced a real estate agent directory that is sorted by cities and neighborhoods [...]
Selling Your Home? Make It Stand Out
Toledo Blade Ask someone in the real estate industry how business has been lately and they’re likely to tell you it has slowed down compared to last year. With mortgage rates rising, fewer people are in a hurry to move, and [...]
Wireless alert system helps agents respond promptly
Jane Gadd – Globe and Mail Real estate agents are missing out on a lot of new clients because they fail to respond promptly to Web inquiries, says a Canadian e-business company that has devised a solution to the problem. Consumer research [...]
Realtor magazine Online Buyers Guide: Web Site Enhancements
Bring them back MICHAEL ANTONIAK Realtor Magazine Online The competition for Internet shoppers has never been more intense. That’s why practitioners who market [...]
Vertical, classified search key to lead gen
Part 1: Hot strategies from Real Estate Connect Bernice Ross Inman News During the last week of July, the movers, [...]
Selling Your Home? Make It Stand Out
July 9, 2006 Tampa Tribune Ask someone in the real estate industry how business has been lately and they’re likely to tell you it has slowed down compared to last year. With mortgage rates rising, fewer people are in a hurry to move, and houses are staying on the market longer. As a result of the increase in inventory, sellers are [...]
Point2 Technologies Inc. – Prairie Programmers Find Their Niche
The Regina Leader Post Where is the most advanced real estate software developed? Not in hot real estate markets like Calgary or Vancouver. Not in high tech hotbeds like Ottawa or Toronto. Each month, a Saskatoon-based technology company signs up [...]
Arkansas Real Estate Broker Stakes Out Online Territory
Real Estate Technology News When EXIT Realty Northwest launched in northwest Arkansas in late 2004, it faced a number of challenges related to brand recognition, agent recruiting and online presence. For the unknown and unproven brokerage, generating listings was a [...]
Wireless real estate system shortens lead response time
Real Estate Technology News Point2 Technologies’ Real Alerts is designed to help Realtors contact potential homebuyers quickly. The system also eliminates the need for third-party lead incubation services and systems, the company said. Point2 Technologies has launched Real Alerts, a prospect incubation and [...]
Real estate agent puts MLS listings on Google Earth
Integration includes county property data Inman News Google Earth put the world- at least a computerized version of it -at computer users’ fingertips, and a real estate agent in Idaho has put a new spin on property listings by sprinkling local [...]
Selling Your Home? Make It Stand Out
April 25, 2006 Post Tribune Ask someone in the real estate industry how business has been lately and they’re likely to tell you it has slowed down compared to last year. With mortgage rates rising, fewer people are in a hurry to move, and houses are staying on the market longer. As a result of the increase in inventory, sellers are [...]
What a national real estate MLS might look like
Guest perspective: Problems with current structure lend clues Inman News The idea of a national multiple listing service has been floating around for years. Lately, with the arrival of Google Base and consolidation of some large MLSs, the talk of a national MLS is heating up again. It makes one wonder, what would or should a national MLS look like? [...]
Home Search Goes Vertical
Jessica Swesey Inman News Part 2: New era of real estate search Editor’s note: Real estate search has entered a new phase with the emergence of applications that narrow the hunt for consumers, pool from multiple sources, and enable consumers to search without having to register at a broker site to gain access. In this four-part series, we examine the latest tools and [...]
Real Estate Marketing Co. Sends Listings To Google Base, Trulia
Inman News Consumers on property search Web sites Google Base and Trulia will now be able to view all Point2Homes.com home listings and can follow links to the respective real estate agents’ Web sites thanks to real-time data feeds, Point2 said today. Similar feeds to free online classified site LiveDeal and property search site Propsmart are expected to go [...]
Real Estate Marketing Co. To Send Listings To Oodle
Point2 Technologies partners with online classifieds search engine Inman News Point2 Technologies and Oodle today announced that development work on a real estate data feed from Point2Homes.com to Oodle Real Estate has been completed, and that the feed is [...]
There's A Revolution Underway In the Real Estate Industry
WIS10 News, Columbia, SC. (Also featured in Charlotte Post) (ARA) – Not so long ago, housing inventories were turning over so fast you had to pretty much put a bid on the home of your [...]
North California MLS Consolidation Raises Questions
Blanche Evans Realty Times It’s natural for individuals to bond together to form a larger, more important union. That’s why our government protects institutions from marriage to corporations. But what does it mean when MLSs merge? Is there more [...]
Sellers Can Reveal What Makes Their House A Home
A new online forum gives buyers some insider insights from the soon-to-depart owners Lew Sichelman United Feature Syndicate Los [...]
Point2 Grants Patent License To Shutterfly
Globe and Mail Update Vancouver-based Point2 Technologies Inc. has announced that Shutterfly Inc., of Redwood City, Calif., has signed a licensing agreement for patented Point2 technology in the field of formatting, resizing and storing of image data and photos on a [...]
'Internal MLS' makes individuals the boss of online property listings
System allows selective opt-in, opt-out based on agent, broker preference Glen Roberts Inman News Forget about IDX, VOW, ILD and even MLS for a moment. An online system created by a Canadian real estate technology company allows [...]
Neighborhood search a boon for real estate
Online services take local search to a new levelNovember 16, 2005 Glen Roberts Jr.Inman News Neighborhoods are taking shape online as Internet companies expand the capabilities of local search. Neighborhood-specific searches allow users to move beyond the typical geographic parameters of city or ZIP code to find relevant matches, though defining neighborhood names and boundaries can be an [...]
Software Revolutionizes Real Estate Worldwide
Saskatoon-based firm impresses Microsoft with Internet innovationErin Morrison, Saskatchewan News Network Regina Leader Post/ Re-printed in Saskatoon Star PhoenixSaskatoon Star Phoenix [PDF]Regina Leader Post [PDF]
Canadian Brokerage Gets Listings Online Faster
Real Estate Technology Insight Matthew Smith, Editor One of the biggest deal-breakers in the real estate business is outdated online listing information. The problem is rampant, according to Larry Stewart, RE/MAX Saskatoon broker and franchise owner in Saskatchewan, Canada. “The biggest [...]
Disruptive technology: Point2 Technologies
REAL Trends Volume XIV, Number 10 [PDF] (Point2 Technologies featured on Page 7)
Point2 joins Google Earth 'mod squad'
Inman News By Janice Mara Point2 Realty Solutions, a Canadian company whose software enables agents to [...]
Web Developer Creates Real Estate Community
Tuesday, February 24, 2004 – Inman News Brendan King, COO of Point 2 Realty Solutions in [...]
Point2 has high hopes – Internet software for real estate agents proving popular
A Saskatoon company whose software quickly dominated online heavy equipment auctions has successfully launched software its leadership [...]

 
 


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