Bay Area Real Estate blog

Bay Area Real Estate Information

2008-05-03T06:42:00.000-07:00

Are you a real estate professional or agency working in the San Francisco Bay Area?

If so consider making an offer for the domain name BayAreaRealestate.info. Use it as a redirect and enjoy the type in targeted traffic the name invites.

Any reasonable offer considered.

Market Your Real Estate Business

2006-11-12T17:08:00.000-08:00

Sierra Web Marketing offers expert marketing for local business. Their specialty is assisting real estate agents and brokers expand their local footprint. Their real estate marketing blog lists some helpful links.

FSBO Marin?

2006-08-19T07:48:00.000-07:00

FSBO Marin.com: A New Concept in Real Estate

Real Estate Marketing Online

2006-03-19T09:01:00.000-08:00

Simple marketing advice. I have seen how this program can help brokers and agents improve their market standing.

How Innovative, Blog your Home for Sale

2005-05-13T10:20:00.000-07:00

Garnen Home For Sale Blog

bay area real estate

Overhead imagery, soon a must have!

2005-03-27T13:29:00.000-08:00

What a great tool for adding a different dimension to your listings.
Check out the homepage for this product.

Click here to site

Great tool

2004-09-13T19:17:00.000-07:00

Headlands

Blogging and the technical headache

2004-09-11T20:19:00.000-07:00

I lost all of my links. Foolishness caused me to lose a few hours of work gathering some of very nice real estate links. I changed templates and even though I saved the links to the scrapbook they somehow disappeared.

I also ran into a formatting situation. The blog was upsidedown so to speak and I know very little about HTML. It's all there however, it just takes time to sort it out.

Blogging will be an important tool for the real estate professional. As years go by they will become a NECESSITY, yes a necessity. Todays bloggers will look for YOUR blog when he of she goes shopping for a home of condo. Your blog is an extension of your personality and market knowledge.

I have seen some very good R.E blogs and I am sure these realtors are among the top performers in their own markets.
My blog is about blogging and related issues in the S.F. Bay Area real estate market. It is the most interesting market in the United States.
Hows and whys of the real estate blogosphere interest me greatly. Please comment and post links to other blogs in this field in the comment space below.
Mike

Moblogging, an important R.E. tool?

2004-09-11T11:57:00.000-07:00

"Moblogging Gathers Momentum
By Sean Michael Kerner

Nokia is getting into the mobile blogging business with its new partner, blogging expert Six Apart. Their new initiative promises to make posting camera phone images to a blog easier than ever before.

Mobile blogging, or "moblogging" to the initiated, involves posting to a blog directly from a camera-enabled cell phone. It allows users to take pictures with their camera phones and post them to their blogs, instead of having to connect to a computer, resize the image and then post it to wherever the blog resides.

TypePad 1.4, Six Apart's newest release announced today, will power the blogs. The product, part of Nokia's "Lifeblog" solution, is a hosted personal blog service. The new version includes a number of new features that make moblogging simpler for users, including integrating "mixed media" templates that allow for a mix of photos and text. Six Apart has also simplified blog setup and posting in this new TypePad release.

Picture messaging has been part of wireless carriers' offerings since the dawn of camera phones, and moblogging is seen, by Six Apart at least, as being a complementary effort to those services.

"There's only a limited number of places you can put these images, and it doesn't really integrate with the rest of your digital life," Anil Dash, a vice president at Six Apart, told internetnews.com. "This is something that opens up what you can do with those pictures and finally make good use of the camera function on your phone."

Mobile phone giant Nokia's Lifeblog solution is set to launch in the fall and will be available on the Nokia Nokia 7610 and later with their Series 60 phones.

"Nokia Lifeblog is further evolving into a great tool for life sharing. Thanks to the collaboration with Six Apart, a shaper in the blog community, users will be able to upload multimedia like photos, videos, text messages, and multimedia messages to their TypePad account," said Christian Lindholm, director of Multimedia Applications, Nokia Ventures Organization, in a statement. "With the Nokia Lifeblog application and TypePad from Six Apart, we can help operators and other service providers to offer their customers the best possible mobile blogging experience."

Beyond being a potential boon to camera phone users, Dash also sees moblogging as an important component and feature of blogging itself.

"It's absolutely critical to the future of blogging," said Dash. "I think it's one of the core things that will help grow blogs in general."

The new moblogging initiative and features included in TypePad are not currently part of Six Apart's other blogging application, MoveableType, though Dash hinted that it might be coming in the future.

"There is obviously a lot of interest and demand for moblogging for the MoveableType audience," Dash said. "I think we'll be doing something in the future but it won't be this specific project."

http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3405421

Real Estate blog done correctly

2004-09-07T13:59:00.000-07:00

This is an example of a clean real estate blog. Eventually blogs will be a part of every agents service. I like the looks of this one.
http://growabrain.typepad.com/thegreatteam/

Cell phone camera and real estate sales

2004-09-06T21:41:00.000-07:00

Another must have?

From the article link below;

"SAN JOSE, CALIF. -- San Francisco real estate agent Eve Barron uses a camera phone to instantly e-mail clients photos of hot properties that have just come on the market.
Her phone also comes in handy during home inspections when she spots potential problems. "I photograph all the points, so when I go back and write up my inspection, I have it in my phone. It gives you that one extra thing that you have that perhaps other agents don't have,"
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/2779957

Phone to Blog

2004-09-01T16:47:00.000-07:00

The possible uses for this are numerous-- Phone to your blog to leave messages.
http://www.audioblogger.com/
You are away from the office or home and you want to get a message to your blog because your client(s) is/are looking for visual and verbal updates.
You could combine this tool with your phone cam. These are the new tools for the new realtor.

Keyword popularity

2004-09-01T13:57:00.000-07:00

"Bay area real estate" was queried over 3,000 times on Overture/Yahoo in July.
"San Francisco bay area real estate" was queried over 16,000 times.

Do a search yourself.
http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/

A great S.F.R.E. blog

2004-08-31T09:27:00.000-07:00

I fully understand once you click this link I may never see you again.
http://www.dailypundit.com/sfrealblog/

A newer site from further South

2004-08-27T20:28:00.000-07:00

Cayucos is 3 hours South of the Bay and this certainly an under appreciated area. Recently I spent time with a couple from Cayucos who sell real estate in the Estero Bay area. Give them a call and set up a visit to view properties in the Estero Bay region.
Check out their site;
http://cayucosrealestate.info
There is little doubt Cayucos and its neighbor Morro Bay will value with its contempories in beach living very soon.
Mike