$100 off Registration for Real Estate Connect
Great news. The deadline for early bird registration for next year’s Real Estate Connect conference in New York has been extended for another week. Plus if you register use the coupon code FOREM and you’ll save an extra $100. Connect is by far the leading technology conference in Real Estate. There’s always a fantastic line-up of speakers… and next year is no different. Just take a look at the list of some of the folks who will be speaking there.

Google Muscles into Real Estate Listings
I was getting on a plane this morning so I was only able to tweet this news. Brian Boero at 1000Watt Consulting sums it up best. Now, today, search engine land reports that Google has taken this one step further to include a unique page for every listing that includes photos, a map (including Street View) property details, directions, transit information and more. It’s a listing detail page, basically. I wrote back in July that “the game’s about to

Data Sharing and The Rise of the Market Blog
Altos Research has released four new WordPress Plugins that make it dead simple to go deep in to the numbers and create data rich local market blogs. Altos is among many real estate data providers out there, but is unique in that many of its core products cater to individual Realtors rather than large institutional or corporate clients. These new plugins allow subscribers to easily embed Altos charts on new posts or pages on their blogs through a very easy interface. The upshot to all this? It makes it dead simple to create new web properties dedicated to answering real

FOREM Flash – Redfin gets $10 Million in new funding
From the Redfin Corporate Blog: Big news! Redfin just announced a $10-million round of financing led by Greylock Partners’ James Slavet and his colleague David Thacker. Redfin’s group of existing investors — Madrona Venture Group, Vulcan Capital, DFJ, The Hillman Company — also pitched in on the round. This new round of financing brings the total investment in the Sea

NeighborCity Serves Up Recommended Agents
NeighborCity is an real estate search site that operates in 20 markets across the country. Like Estately and a handful of others, NeighborCity is also a brokerage and as a result, gets access to the MLS and is able to display all the active listings in those markets. But NeighborCity is taking it one step further. It’s also displaying all the active agents in those markets and suggesting them alongside any searches done on the site. Right now it has pr