Real Estate Biz

What Does News Corps’ Purchase of Move.com Mean to Real Estate Agents & Consumers? More Online Competition

By Candy Evans / October 2, 2014 /

I have been preaching this since I started blogging about Real Estate: Real Estate and the web are a perfect marriage, a match made in heaven. Print advertising is great for branding and luxurious story-telling, but it cannot help you market homes effectively. It’s too old, too slow, too expensive. Online is where EVERYONE looks…

Rupert Murdoch Buys Move.com: Major Checkmate on Zulia?

By Candy Evans / October 1, 2014 /

I cannot even begin to fathom what this means, can you? But it sure seems smart and, well, like a big huge fat checkmate for Zulia — that is, Zillow and Trulia. (Recall Zillow is acquiring Trulia, to gain a huge market share in online real estate listings and news. The entire world of real…

Zulia! Musings on the Zillow Acquisition of Trulia: Get ready to Make a Verb Out of “Zillow”

By Candy Evans / July 28, 2014 /

It’s been a day trying to interpret and predict the future of the real estate industry. Good grief! Jeff Farris of BubbleLife Media reminded me that seven years ago, we didn’t have a verb called “google.” I was just getting an iphone. I started a “blob” called DallasDirt! We think maybe in another five to…

More on the Move.com Injunction Against Zillow & Errol Samuelson

By Candy Evans / July 3, 2014 /

Andrea Bramblia at Inman has more on the victory for Move Inc. and the National Association of Realtors, handed out yesterday by a Washington state Superior Court judge who gave the companies a preliminary injunction against Zillow and its chief industry development officer, Errol Samuelson. Samuelson scooted over to Zillow last March without much warning. While…

Agent Reboot Hits Dallas THIS WEDNESDAY and WOW: Special CandysDirt.com Pricing!

By Candy Evans / June 2, 2014 /

Agent Reboot is back in Dallas THIS week on June 4th! Inman has yet another all-star line up of speakers — agents and brokers, your’s truly, as well the Inman News team and the great Laura Monroe (here) on hand to host another great event in Dallas. This year the theme has been to get real working strategies…