So here is our fourth installment of Roost’s 50 Real Estate People You Should Follow on Twitter. If you are seeing this list for the first time, you need to stop and click the July List, August List and September List first because there are some incredible people in real estate who you could be following on Twitter. I know our October List is coming out a little late, but there is a reason. I attended RE [...]

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The Roost Team is excited that our CEO, Alex Chang, has been asked to speak once again at Inman Connect San Francisco.  Last year Alex was on a lively and somewhat controversial panel titled “The MLS Mess.” This year’s panel should be just as lively and provide some great background and insight to brokers and agents alike.

This year’s panel is titled “Online-Ad Spend Triage: Where – or if – to Spend Your Money Online” and features insight from Alex as [...]

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So I was going to write another recap of the last two days to close out the Inman Real Estate Connect SF show but something happened as I started to put fingertips to keyboard….we won the 2008 Inman Innovator Award in the Best New Technology category.

Now this may be hard to believe, but with the competition of this category including such cutting-edge companies as BlueRoof360, Mixpo, Obeo and Terabitz, no one around here thought we would [...]

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So it’s mid-July, and to most, the holiday season is still five months away. But for all those real estate technology geeks out there, our Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa starts on Tuesday and lasts the rest of the week. Inman’s Real Estate Connect San Francisco is once again gracing us with its presence in this beautiful city of ours.

This is the one event that cannot be missed if you work in the real estate technology space. It’s a [...]

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We are thrilled to announce today that leading real estate brokerage Baird & Warner has joined the Roost IDX Partner Network to support its online marketing programs.

Chicago-based Baird & Warner is the largest independent real estate broker in Illinois with more than $6 billion in annual sales. Founded in 1855, it is also the oldest independent real estate broker in the country.

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Exciting news in the Roost.com nest! We just found out that a great story on Roost.com has appeared in the July issue of The Pennsylvania REALTOR®. Our own Alex Chang provided some color commentary on the Roost.com value proposition and Steve Storti, Senior Vice President of Marketing for Prudential Fox & Roach, provided his own take on Roost.com as well as the Internet landscape in the real estate space.

We are very excited [...]

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Three reasons why Kayak sets the standard

OK, I know firsthand that there are more reasons why Travel is unlike Real Estate then there are similarities. Real Estate is fundamentally local; I do not believe REALTORS® can/will be disintermediated; the purchase cycle happens over months if not years; and so on.

But despite all that, I still look to Kayak.com for inspiration more often than I’d care to admit.

Full disclosure, there are a few extenuating circumstances that influence how [...]

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OK, maybe not every one of them.  Maybe not even most.  But I have to say I’m getting a bit tired of reading how Real Estate Brokers and Agents are in the Stone Age when it comes to understanding technology. 

I probably shouldn’t admit this, but what the heck…I’m the CEO of a technology start-up…I live in SF, the heart of Technology OZ…and I work 3 blocks from where Steve Jobs announced the new iPhone [...]

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So you thought you could keep your little real estate search gem a secret all to yourself. Well I’m sorry to inform you that the word is out and you are not alone in your discovery of the coolest and most innovative real estate search site around.

Roost.com is proud to announce that it is one of the five finalists in the “New Technology” category for the 11th Annual [...]

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