Brian Blum | March 03, 2009 | Real Estate
A new win for classified vendor Adicio. The company will be powering the online real estate classifieds for 12 sites owned by MediaNews Group.The MediaNews Group...
Brian Blum | March 03, 2009 | Real Estate
Pay to list an ad on a property Web site? That’s so 2008. Or so thinks Zoopla.co.uk which has launched a pay-per-lead model whereby U.K. buyers pay £1 and sellers...
Brian Blum | March 02, 2009 | Automotive, Real Estate, Recruitment, Marketplaces
Private label classified vendor Gabriels has hooked up with Endeca Technologies to provide Gabriels’ clients with better search. In an announcement, the...
Brian Blum | March 02, 2009 | Real Estate
Real estate property portal REA Group and its Australian CEO, Jamie Pride, have parted ways. Pride was with the company for less than a year and his departure...
Brian Blum | March 02, 2009 | Real Estate
The National Association of Realtors has hired its first social media manager. Todd Carpenter founded Bizomi Consulting – which helps real estate and...
AIM Group | February 25, 2009 | Real Estate
Good news in a tough environment. The REA Group today announced $11.4 million in first half profits, a year on year growth of 47 percent. For the whole year,...
AIM Group | February 24, 2009 | Real Estate
Australian commercial property portal, RealEstateCommercial.com.au is adding another commercial property website, PrimeSite.com.au, to its portfolio. It joins the...
AIM Group | February 18, 2009 | Real Estate
It’s not huge yet, but traffic to U.K. property site Zoopla.co.uk grew 50 percent in January compared with the previous month. Visits to the site –...
AIM Group | February 18, 2009 | Real Estate
SeLoger, the French property portal, had positive revenue number for 2008 as a whole but went negative in Q4 due to a drop in classified ads in Paris.For the full...
AIM Group | February 18, 2009 | Real Estate
Homes.com traffic for January 2009 was up 33.4 percent over January 2008, to 3.1 million. The good news coincides with the site’s 10th birthday.“Seeing...
AIM Group | February 16, 2009 | Real Estate
Traffic at U.K. property portal FindaProperty.com’s has increased by 63.9 per cent since December 2008 and currently stands at a 2.8 million unique visitors,...
AIM Group | February 13, 2009 | Real Estate
The Washington Post, which earlier this week chose Trulia to power its real estate Web site, has now added a home valuation tool from HomeGain. The tool allows...
AIM Group | February 12, 2009 | Real Estate
First American CoreLogic has filed a suit against Foreclosure.com saying that information it provided under a licensing agreement with Foreclosure.com’s data...
AIM Group | February 12, 2009 | Real Estate
Want to know more about a Realtor you’re considering hiring. Online real estate brokerage Redfin will dish out the dirt. The company says it plans to start...
AIM Group | February 06, 2009 | Real Estate, Recruitment
In its latest earnings report, The McClatchy Company’s CEO Gary Pruitt shared some figures on classified advertising performance at the company’s...
AIM Group | February 06, 2009 | Real Estate
Trulia has a new advisory board and it includes some big MLS names. Board members include:– Russ Bergeron (CEO, SoCal MLS)– David Charron (CEO,...
AIM Group | February 05, 2009 | Real Estate
The U.K. arm of classifieds Web site Oodle will now display its property listings on TNTonline.co.uk.Tntonline.co.uk is the Web site of TNT publishing, a London...
AIM Group | February 05, 2009 | Real Estate
Zillow is reporting another big uptick in traffic for January. After December’s huge jump to 5.8 million unique visitors (62 percent higher than 2007), the...
AIM Group | February 04, 2009 | Real Estate
You’re selling a home and you entrust your real estate agent to post a listing across the Web. But is the agent really doing his or her job? Check the Real...
AIM Group | February 04, 2009 | Real Estate
We read lots of blogs here at AIMGroup.com. So we can get pretty jaded. If the site doesn’t have news we’re interested in, we’re out of there...
AIM Group | February 03, 2009 | Real Estate
Stuart Wofff, the former CEO of real estate portal Homestore (now Move.com), was supposed to be heading to jail after he was found guilty of an accounting scandal...
Brian Blum | January 21, 2009 | Real Estate
Foreclosure bad news continues to mean good news for real estate Web sites that specialize in unloading unwanted property. 2008 was a record setter for online home...
Brian Blum | January 20, 2009 | Automotive, Real Estate, Recruitment
Classified advertising across newspapers in Australia’s Fairfax Media chain fell in December as much as 62 percent from the year before, according to a...
Brian Blum | January 16, 2009 | Real Estate
By John SturrupHot on the heals of the recent launch of the Toronto Star’s real estate site (StarRealEstate.ca), Trader Corporation has made an impressive...
Brian Blum | January 16, 2009 | Real Estate
By Talal EssaReal estate portal PropertyFinder.ae, launched a year ago by Australia-based REA Group, is celebrating its first anniversary in UAE. The company...
Brian Blum | January 16, 2009 | Real Estate
By Jim Townsend Hunker down, folks. It’s going to be a long winter. That message conveys the prevalent mood among agents and brokers at last week’s Inman Real...
Brian Blum | January 15, 2009 | Real Estate
HGTV’s real estate search and info portal FrontDoor.com has launched a new City Guides section. The city-focused, online guides contain articles, user...
Brian Blum | December 19, 2008 | Real Estate
HomeGain has launched a new home valuation tool. The company is not just playing catch-up with Zillow, CyberHomes and other real estate sites that already offer...
Brian Blum | December 17, 2008 | Real Estate
Zillow has launched a new Advice section. Prominently featured on the right side of Zillow’s home page, it combines the real estate Web site’s old...
Brian Blum | December 16, 2008 | Real Estate
With homebuyers becoming increasingly skittish, ZipRealty has introduced a new feature to help draw more users to its site. Visitors can now estimate what any home...
