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I haven’t checked out Property Shark in a while but poked around today. Wow, the amount of information on their details pages is really impressive. Their maps are also very cool.

Mapwing:

Mapwing makes it easy to build, share, and explore virtual tours.

A real estate agent has a blog post about a recent Readers Digest aricle, Reader’s Digest Hammers the Real Estate Industry (I haven’t read the article.)

The Live Maps / Virtual Earth blog had an interesting blog post recently, Marquee Zoom in Live Maps and lo and behold it works on Redfin since we use VE.

What’s marquee zoom? It’s zooming in by ‘drawing’ a box on the area to zoom in on. To use it press the ALT button or middle button on your mouse and drag.

After a year of enabling people to buy and sell real estate online we had our real estate and math gurus sit down and crunch the numbers. The results and whitepaper are available at, http://redfin.com/advantage:

• Redfin King County customers paid on average 99.329% of the listing price while buyers with other brokerages paid 100.233% of listing price for a difference of .904%, for an average savings of $4,474;
• The total Redfin Advantage, combining the negotiating advantage and an average Washington commission refund of 1.952%, was 2.856%. The total savings for an average Washington customer was $14,134;
• 170 customers in King County bought a home through Redfin, 200 across Washington state;
• 64% of Redfin’s buyers said Redfin was better or much better than a traditional agent;
• 95% would recommend Redfin to a friend; in the most recent survey, the percentage was 97%;
• 48% of Redfin buyers work in high technology;
• 90% are under 45;
• 37% are first-time home-buyers, a number that has doubled over the course of the year;
• 49% come through word of mouth; less than 2% through ads;
• 57% report that a seller’s agent offered to represent both buyer and seller;
• 42% describe touring listings as their most important concern, despite a new free home-tour program from Redfin.

Of course Glenn has more on the blog, A Year’s Numbers Come in From the MLS: Redfin Agents Negotiate Better and the Seattle Times ran an article about us this weekend, Redfin revolution: In competitive real-estate industry, Redfin model is working and Redfin by the numbers. The LA Times also mentioned this weekend, Attention discount shoppers: Find a home online and save.

I suspect our agents are going to be busy this week!

Posts and articles about this elsewhere:

• Freakonomics, More data on real estate agents
• Future of Real Estate Marketing, Redfin Agents More Effective?
• Inman, Redfin claims low-cost model is working
• SF Curbed, Redfin: Anno Numero Uno
• Purple Vision, the real estate process under attack
• Marlow Harris, Has Redfin jumped the shark?
• Real Estate Technology Blog, Who’s the best negotiator? and can you base it on Real Estate Data?
• Transparent RE, Redfin Validates its Negotiation Capabilities with MLS Statistics
• Greg Swann,Thinking skeptically to rain on Redfin.com’s parade . . . Go team!
• John Cook, Redfin issues detailed report

I was walking while it happened and missed it but Sasha didn’t. USGS confirms a 3.4 magnitude earthquake in the San Francisco area today at 3:46.

I received this e-mail the other day. Quite funny stuff.

Mr. Goyer:

mail [*at *] mattgoyer.com

We are aware that you have registered and set up multiple accounts with [name removed], Inc. (”[name removed]”). As part of that registration process, you agreed to our Terms of Use. As part of those Terms of Use, you acknowledged, among other things, that you are a prospective purchaser or seller of real property [Matt: I am a prospective purchase]. Additionally the Terms of Use mandate that all real estate licensees contact and advise [name removed] of their licensed status before accessing the password protected portions of the [name removed] website.

It has come to our attention that you are a Project Manager for Redfin, Inc., [Matt: Actually I’m a Product Manager] a licensed real estate broker in California and Washington. We believe that you may have registered and accessed the [name removed] website in violation of the [name removed] Terms of Use. As such, we have inactivated your accounts.

If we are mistaken, feel free to contact [name removed] with an explanation of your real estate needs, and we will consider re-activating your account. Absent such re-activation, please cease and desist any further attempts to register or access any password protected areas of the [name removed] website. Additionally, we admonish you that the password protected portions of [name removed]’s website is proprietary to [name removed].

We certainly welcome competition in the real estate industry. However, such competition must take place on a level playing field. If we learn of further improper access to our website, we will take any and all appropriate legal action to protect our rights and to ensure that any legal transgressions are prosecuted to the full extent allowed by law.

We wish you the best of luck in all of your professional endeavors. Thank you.

Megan a PM at Trulia has a blog, Education in Entrepreneurship.