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Canadian real estate search and information site Zoocasa launched a new feature last week called Zoopraisal. What is a Zoopraisal you may be wondering? A Zoopraisal is a computer generated estimate of the value of a property. In the United State Zillow
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They (the Canadian Real Estate Association) tell me they have made some improvements to realtor.ca. Personally I don't search for real estate there unless I am curious about some area outside of Greater Vancouver. Here is what they had to say about:
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I am a bit of a sucker for all the new social media websites out there. I will write another post soon about all the different places you can find me online. HINT: I am usually the 604homesguy if it is the kind of place where you have a username. I have
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I Love This Virtual Tour Part 3 I started writing Part 3 about a different great feature of the Obeo virtual tours I use on all my Vancouver listings back a while ago, but it got lost in the shuffle of draft posts. This week Obeo announced an even better
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... and it is really long and you probably won't watch it, but that is ok, and this is a run-on sentence too. Rodney from Reachd video'd that whole thing and the video is FORTY NINE minutes long. Try fast forwarding to the parts where I talk.
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Tonight is the monthly Vancouver Real Estate Technology Meetup . The organizer, Stephen Jaggger of Ubertor and Reachd, has asked me to join Ian Watt and Tom Everitt on a panel where we will: have a question and answer period about the technology they
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Wow it seems like some people somewhere think there is money in the Canadian web 2.0 real estate hills, but me, I don't get it. The examples are there in the U.S. with trulia and zillow but with zoocasa and househunting.ca (which is so bad it doesn't
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Canada has a new real estate search site and honestly I am not sure if we need one. Canada is VERY lucky to have a place in mls.ca (soon/eventually to disappear) and realtor.ca where you can find virtually every property for sale on the MLS in Canada.
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I started to write this post last week, but something went wrong and I lost it. I was not happy, but there we are, and here we go. In Part 1 I talked about the StyleDesigner feature that allows the visitor to re-decorate rooms in a house. You can change
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Early last year I had used an Obeo virtual tour for one of my listings and it was pretty good, but then they lost their Vancouver rep and their tours were not available in Vancouver for a while. Well they are back and I have to say I love the product.
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No time to write much about it (I'll update this later), but realtor.ca is now live. Go check it out! Matthew Collinge: Vancouver REALTOR®
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As any REALTOR will tell you, this is no surprise. The real estate industry is famously old and grouchy about technology changes. The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV) informed me this morning that: The public www.mls.ca web site will officially
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I like to CAPITALIZE the first letter of very word in my titles, but small case seemed better today. Anyway, yes, mls.ca will no longer be mls.ca although they will, of course, be re-directing
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I have added an "Audio Tour" or voice-over to one of my listings and I am interested to know what you you think about it. The way the website is set up it will only play automatically the first time you view the listing (on a given computer).
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I have been working on this blog of about a year now and pretty early on Google graced me with a PageRank (or "PR" for short) of 1!!! It is not much obviously, but at least they noticed I was out there. Then 6 months ago, or so, my handy Google
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