Matt Goyer’s Real Estate Blog

We had a new product manager join my team this week (welcome John!) and I was just about to email him a list of the blogs I thought he might be interested in and decided to blog the list instead.

Here are the real estate blogs I think are relevant for a product manager at Redfin.

• Future of Real Estate Marketing: Well written blog. One of the first I’ll read when it has updates.
• 4realz.net: Dustin blogs a lot about real estate and technology. Target audience is real estate agents.
• Blue Collar Agents: Trevor is a real estate agent at Redfin

I’d also recommend he follow these blogs since he’ll be heading up our query and stats team:

• Seattle Bubble: Very thorough real estate analysis. He can we automate this and make it presentable to your average consumer?
• Altos Research: Altos is doing some good stuff around aggregate statistics

It’s also important to keep up on your competitors. Fortunately a few of them have blogs:

• Estately’s Blog
• Roost’s Blog
• Sawbuck’s Blog
• Trulia’s Blog
• Zillow’s Blog
• Zip Realty’s Blog

To keep up with technology I watch Techmeme several times a day, to stay on top of the gossip I read Valleywag and to stay on top of the Seattle startup scene and startups in general I read these sites. Joel On Software is also recommended reading to stay on top of software engineering topics.

Noticeably absent from the lists above are any good blogs on program/product management, SEO, design, web trends and usability. I need to fix that. Recommendations welcome.

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