Comments on: Find Your Next House Online and Strike a Great Deal http://onemansblog.com/2007/02/06/find-your-next-house-online-and-strike-a-great-deal/ Specialization is for Insects. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:34:38 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: The Man http://onemansblog.com/2007/02/06/find-your-next-house-online-and-strike-a-great-deal/comment-page-1/#comment-1409 The Man Thu, 29 Mar 2007 21:39:14 +0000 http://onemansblog.com/2007/02/06/find-your-next-house-online-and-strike-a-great-deal/#comment-1409 Very interesting Pete. Thanks for the tip! John Very interesting Pete. Thanks for the tip!

John

]]> By: Peter Chan http://onemansblog.com/2007/02/06/find-your-next-house-online-and-strike-a-great-deal/comment-page-1/#comment-1365 Peter Chan Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:33:15 +0000 http://onemansblog.com/2007/02/06/find-your-next-house-online-and-strike-a-great-deal/#comment-1365 Hey John, Your blog came up in a search i was doing today. As an FYI - Redfin, Realtor.com and a host of other real estate sites (such as www.coldwellbanker.com, www.longandfoster.com, www.nytimes.com, etc.) get much of their content from a company called OnBoard LLC which provides community, school, recently sold info, home value estimates, etc. I bring them up because they are also the only company I'm aware of that can provide true neighborhood boundaries (in metro areas at least) as well as content that is actually neighborhood (rather than ZIP code) based. Redfin, I believe, gets this content from them already. Unlike the real estate sites that use their content, OnBoard doesn't go direct to consumers or try to capture leads, etc. Instead they seem to be a more objective third party under the hood player like BASF or Intel.... Ah forgot that they also work with publishing companies such as Money Magazine on their Best Places to Live feature - http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/bplive/2006/snapshots/PL1751622.html Happened to come across them as they were recently hiring in the NYC area. Thanks! Pete Hey John,
Your blog came up in a search i was doing today. As an FYI – Redfin, Realtor.com and a host of other real estate sites (such as http://www.coldwellbanker.com, http://www.longandfoster.com, http://www.nytimes.com, etc.) get much of their content from a company called OnBoard LLC which provides community, school, recently sold info, home value estimates, etc. I bring them up because they are also the only company I’m aware of that can provide true neighborhood boundaries (in metro areas at least) as well as content that is actually neighborhood (rather than ZIP code) based. Redfin, I believe, gets this content from them already. Unlike the real estate sites that use their content, OnBoard doesn’t go direct to consumers or try to capture leads, etc. Instead they seem to be a more objective third party under the hood player like BASF or Intel….

Ah forgot that they also work with publishing companies such as Money Magazine on their Best Places to Live feature – http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/bplive/2006/snapshots/PL1751622.html

Happened to come across them as they were recently hiring in the NYC area.

Thanks!
Pete

]]> By: Cynthia Pang http://onemansblog.com/2007/02/06/find-your-next-house-online-and-strike-a-great-deal/comment-page-1/#comment-534 Cynthia Pang Sat, 10 Feb 2007 01:14:37 +0000 http://onemansblog.com/2007/02/06/find-your-next-house-online-and-strike-a-great-deal/#comment-534 Hi John, Sorry I am a little slow to reply, but I waited until I could tell you the good news! We're now live in Southern California - from Ventura down to San Diego. Before this expansion we were in more than two cities. In January, we announced expansion into cities surrounding Seattle such as Tacoma, Everett and Gig Harbor. In San Francisco we added coverage of the entire Bay Area markets and Santa Cruz too. So, that's a lot of cities! And, yes, more will be coming soon :) ... and faster since we switched to Virtual Earth too. Thanks for the kind words and positive feedback. We love to hear it - good or bad. Blog or send it to me directly at cynthia (dot) pang (at) redfin (dot) com. Thanks, Cynthia Hi John,
Sorry I am a little slow to reply, but I waited until I could tell you the good news! We’re now live in Southern California – from Ventura down to San Diego.

Before this expansion we were in more than two cities. In January, we announced expansion into cities surrounding Seattle such as Tacoma, Everett and Gig Harbor. In San Francisco we added coverage of the entire Bay Area markets and Santa Cruz too. So, that’s a lot of cities!

And, yes, more will be coming soon :) … and faster since we switched to Virtual Earth too.

Thanks for the kind words and positive feedback. We love to hear it – good or bad. Blog or send it to me directly at cynthia (dot) pang (at) redfin (dot) com.

Thanks,
Cynthia

]]> By: The Man http://onemansblog.com/2007/02/06/find-your-next-house-online-and-strike-a-great-deal/comment-page-1/#comment-521 The Man Wed, 07 Feb 2007 07:11:30 +0000 http://onemansblog.com/2007/02/06/find-your-next-house-online-and-strike-a-great-deal/#comment-521 Cynthia, Thanks for pointing out my omission of Seattle, though I did mention that in my previous post specifically about Redfin. I should re-iterate that I LOVE Redfin.com, but I have to point out that I first mentioned the site 6 months ago and even back then we were being told "more cities coming soon"... I think that Redfin has the best mashups I've seen for this sort of site, but it doesn't do the 95% of the US population any good until we can use it for our areas too. :-) Even the planned expansion will only bring Redfin.com up to 5 cities, so I guess the rest of us will have to wait a REALLY long time. Thanks again, John Cynthia,

Thanks for pointing out my omission of Seattle, though I did mention that in my previous post specifically about Redfin.

I should re-iterate that I LOVE Redfin.com, but I have to point out that I first mentioned the site 6 months ago and even back then we were being told “more cities coming soon”…

I think that Redfin has the best mashups I’ve seen for this sort of site, but it doesn’t do the 95% of the US population any good until we can use it for our areas too. :-)

Even the planned expansion will only bring Redfin.com up to 5 cities, so I guess the rest of us will have to wait a REALLY long time.

Thanks again,

John

]]> By: Cynthia http://onemansblog.com/2007/02/06/find-your-next-house-online-and-strike-a-great-deal/comment-page-1/#comment-520 Cynthia Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:53:29 +0000 http://onemansblog.com/2007/02/06/find-your-next-house-online-and-strike-a-great-deal/#comment-520 Actually, Redfin covers Greater Seattle (King, Kitsap, Pierce and Snohomish counties) as well as the entire San Francisco Bay Area (Marin, Napa, Solano, Sonoma, etc.) and more cities coming soon. Actually, Redfin covers Greater Seattle (King, Kitsap, Pierce and Snohomish counties) as well as the entire San Francisco Bay Area (Marin, Napa, Solano, Sonoma, etc.) and more cities coming soon.

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