SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 10, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) - Trulia.com, the best place to start a real estate search, has created a new business development group to form partnerships with Multiple Listing Service (MLS) providers. The move is in response to growing interest from MLSs and the Association of REALTORS® who want to ensure their members’ listings are available and accurately represented to consumers searching for real estate online. Trulia offers MLSs and associations several unique marketing and educational benefits, including: - Syndication of listings to Trulia.com, with 5 million unique monthly users and 250% annual traffic growth, at no cost [...]

I would like to congratulate WAV Group partner Marilyn Wilson for being selected as one of the top 50 women in real estate.  Her thought leadership and work ethic make for an enormous contribution to the WAV Group and thier clients.   Thanks to the ActiveRain and Steven Swanepoel for producting the list of the Top 100 Most Influential Women in leadership roles in the Real Estate Industry. Congratulations to all of the winners - click more to see the list! Adorna Carroll Amy Chorew Andy Capelluto Ann Bailey Ann Defries Anne Randolph Avis Wukasch Barb Schwarz Barbara Corcoran Bernice [...]

SIMI VALLEY, Calif., September 26, 2008 - Rapattoni Corporation announced today that it will implement advanced technology from RSA to enhance the fraud detection capabilities of Rapattoni Secure Logon and to make the security experience more convenient for its users. Based on PassMark device identification technology, which provides the “know your customer” rule used in online banking, this technology offers customers even more security assurance than traditional hardware tokens. RSA® Adaptive Authentication is an intelligent system that authenticates users by monitoring a series of risk indicators in real-time. This transparent authentication provides a superior user experience as agents are only [...]

Although no information is being reported on Pacific Union, Koneng and Strey and other company owned offices - much of the empire has been sold. NEW YORK (Associated Press) - A unit of Brookfield Asset Management Inc. said Tuesday it is buying the real estate arm of GMAC Financial Services for undisclosed terms. The Toronto-based asset manager’s Brookfield Residential Property Services will buy GMAC Home Services LLC from GMAC Residential Holding Company LLC and Residential Capital LLC. The deal includes GMAC Real Estate, which has about 80 company-owned real estate offices and about 1,000 franchised offices nationwide, and GMAC Home [...]

Social Networking is entering the real estate market place casually.  It seems that for many agents and brokers, participating in these networks is “nice to have” not “have to have."  It is understandable.  Aside from a few dozen isolated examples, social networking has not generated much new business for real estate practitioners. Today I learned about a new social network titled blip.fm.  It allows people to become DJs, sharing music favorites online.  To get started you simply create a user name and enter in your email address.  Pick a few bands or songs that you like, and blip.fm will instantly [...]

New online tool is a huge success so far with Connecticut agents and their buyers and sellers. Listingbook™ announced today that it has launched its system in Connecticut, with the Greater Fairfield County Consolidated MLS (GFC CMLS), expanding the ever growing footprint of Listingbook deployed across the nation’s leading MLSs.  Listingbook is a freeimum service - free to the MLS and members for baseline VOW services, and a small fee is charged to agents who upgrade to the premium service product (includes branding, preimum website, enhanced CMA and reporting). The addition brings more than 8,000 REALTORS® to the companys agent [...]

Hyper-V and Melio clustered file system enable real time infrastructure for the largest Multiple Listing Service in New England. Sanbolic announced that MLS Property Information Network, Inc.(MLSPIN) has deployed Melio clustered file system in conjunction with Microsoft Hyper-V for their new data center. By allowing virtual servers running as file and web servers to concurrently access shared data on SAN storage, Melio FS enables the data center to dynamically respond to changes in web traffic. MLSPIN is the largest MLS in New England and one of the top ten in the nation. It provides service to more than 30,000 real [...]

The WAV Group blog and website is normally visited by 1,500 to 2,000 people a day - mostly people download our industry white papers or come here to read our blog. On August 22nd, something unusual happened.  Leading technology blog Tech Crunch ran a post about the differences between IDX powered listing websites and feed powered websites.  As a result, our combined blog and website traffic jumped to over 20,000 visitors!  Although half of the traffic came directly from Tech Crunch, the other half came from hundreds of blogs that re-published the story. If you are interested in viewing the Roost [...]

This is really off topic for our blog, but so many of our twitter firends are having trouble upgrading their itunes and iphone to version 2.0 Steps to upgrading to iPhone Firmware version 2.0 (w/App Store) 1. Go to Apple Menu -----> Then "Software Update..." and install iTunes 7.7. 2. Go here and It should autcoatiallcy start the download for the new firmware. 3. Once it is finished make sure the file ends in ".ipsw" if you find it ends in ".zip" just erase the .zip from the extension 4. With your iPhone connected to your computer, go to iTunes where [...]