Technology and Real Estate Industry Blog

Realestate.com.au redesign

13th April, 2010 - Posted by mike - 3 Comments

I think it looks awesome. At least at first glance. They will be definately getting ahead of domain.com.au. It looks quite neat and fresh. Very interactive and Web 2.0 feel. Cons It might take some time for users to learn new features. Is it going to be a problem for returning visitors to use the website? » Read More

SPECTACULAR CITY VIEWS

10th February, 2010 - Posted by mike - No Comments

I am just browsing on domain.com.au looking for properties and stumble on listing which shocked me. Listing has title “SPECTACULAR CITY VIEWS” which made me to click on link and see the apartment with amazing views. To my surprise the only picture on page is big logo of real estate agency. I can’t imagine that how » Read More

How to use tinyurl in Twitter?

6th August, 2009 - Posted by mike - No Comments

This is a tutorial on how to use tinyurl for your Tweets. What is tinyurl? Tinyurl is a redirecting service. It creates shorter versions of www addresses. For example this long address: http://business.theage.com.au/business/rba-warns-of-housing-price-bubble-risk-20090728-dzjy.html would become this much shorter website address: http://tinyurl.com/lfsndy. If you click on both links you will end up in the same location which is » Read More

War over Google Maps and Real Estate listings

30th July, 2009 - Posted by mike - No Comments

Why war? Fairfax and REA are not happy about Google entering the real estate listing market which is not a surprise considering the competition Google represents. Google’s advertising income from Fairfax and REA is estimated at around $144 million. Future Possibilities It will be interesting to see what will happen in the future. I am hoping that Google » Read More

How can Real Estate profit from Twitter?

29th July, 2009 - Posted by mike - No Comments

How will your company benefit from using Twitter? By integrating twitter into your existing website your company can be one step ahead of the rest. Your real estate team can constantly upload new information as soon as it is available. For example; An agent holds or attends an auction and can tweet information as it happens and » Read More

Google on fire

10th July, 2009 - Posted by mike - No Comments

Last week Google launched Real Estate search on Google Maps. This is a great news for Real Estate agencies across Australia. Why? It is free, you don’t have to pay a cent to add a listing It is on Google, the world’s most used search tool It has the potential to improve your SEO It puts pressure on the big » Read More