Adapt or die? Guess craigslist.com didn’t get the memo because it is stuck in web design circa 1997. And as we noted before, it is the site everyone loves to hate, renters and agents alike – too many ads (32,000 apartments listed in Boston yesterday), poor search capability, limited ability to embed video. Need we go on? [...] Read More »
Part II: Google Search as Boston Real Estate Market Indicator?
John A. Keith is out this week with a great post asking “Is the Boston spring real estate market already over?” So we decided to revisit the topic of Google search data as a real estate market indicator. Keith reports that traffic at his Boston real estate website is up 400% over the last 30 days, but down [...] Read More »
Zillow drinks the Kool-Aid
Zillow to buy Rent Juice for $40M Zillow, 800 pound guerrilla of real estate search, announced plans to purchase rental listings giant Rent Juice Wednesday for $40 million in cash. Five million renters visit Zillow each month and now with Rent Juice, Zillow will become a major national player in both the sales and rental real estate [...] Read More »
Brainerd Road Going Upscale
The new luxury Element building in Allston Mount Vernon Company is attempting to move Brookline to Allston. Well, maybe just the nudge the town line a touch. The Element a new Allston 100 unit luxury apartment building set to open in July 2012 is being touted by its developer as the “largest multi-family investment in [...] Read More »
