Real Estate category archives

The ActiveRain Real Estate Network is a year old now. While we’ve certainly been connecting on-line, the blogging community is getting to the point where members are making connections off-line as well. To celebrate the 1 year anniversary, Active Rain is facilitating local gatherings where members of from around the country are getting [...]

Here’s another real estate blog that seems to have gone unnoticed. The blog is Blog’s Away, and features So Cal real estate talk.

As you can see from the picture of the header, the slogan is, “Go ahead and read my mind.” It’s an amusing take on the Southern California real estate market, and includes random [...]

I use a free pinging service called Pingoat.com after each post to my blog. For those unfamiliar with the concept, pinging is a method of notifying different websites and directories that your RSS feed has been updated with new content. In some cases you can configure your blog to do this automtically, but with so [...]

There are numerous multi-author blogs around the internet, and several very successful ones within the real estate category (RE.net). In my mind, there are several primary benefits to multi-author blogs:

Distributed Workload — No doubt about it, writing takes a lot of time, meaning blogging also takes a lot of time. A multi-author blog allows [...]

Greg Swann has an interesting post over at BloodHoundBlog titled “An RE.net taxonomy: Identifying types of real estate weblogs.” Take a look and see what category your real estate blog falls under!

Blogging is certainly a great way to establish relationships, but there’s still nothing like actually meeting someone face-to-face. To help the RE.net connect with each other in person, I’ve made another addition to this blog that I think bloggers will find useful — a RE.net Event Calendar (near the top of the right sidebar)!
To help seed [...]

At BloodhoundBlog, we’ve complained publicly and privately about a recent trend in judging the Carnival of Real Estate. It is typified by these odious words: “In no particular order.” The mass of posts is winnowed down to a first cut, then anything making the cut is listed “in no particular order.”
This is probably intended to [...]

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If you’re interested in real estate blogging, Bloggers Connect in San Francisco will help you learn from some of the best and brightest in the biz. This is also your chance to [...]

If you read the Carnival of Real Estate frequently, you know there are a ton of great real estate blogs out there. And if you’ve ever wondered what it takes to start your own blog, Inman News has organized an audio conference on Monday June 11 at 11am PST called “Building from the Ground Up. [...]

I’m a forum /message board / blog junkie. What can I say, it’s a sickness…
Yesterday, I ran across this comment on a real estate forum discussion on blogging:
“Blogs are the Pet Rocks of today. Everyone has one but they don’t really do anything.”
Hmmm….While I will agree that real estate blogging may be the [...]