Pittsburgh Homes Daily

Traditionally, apartment hunters must search through hundreds of listings by landlords and rental companies in order to find the perfect apartment. Tenant Market is trying to change that process to make it easier for both landlords and tenants.
Jeremy Bencken from TenantMarket.com kindly agreed to answer a few of my questions about how it works. [...]

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The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review noted today that home sales held steady in the Pittsburgh region from Jan. to March.  The story pretty much tracks every report I’ve seen on Pittsburgh housing over the last year: Not up big.  Not down big.  Just steady.
The much more interesting numbers will be April through June. 

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Last month, Pittsburgh-based mobile media company MoGoes  created a buzz around Pittsburgh when it announced that it would be working with Visit Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership to create mobile content for downtown Pittsburgh.  It turns out that this story was just the tip of the iceberg for our local startup.  It has grand plans in the real estate [...]

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As I’ve been searching the country for real estate blogs, I have to shamefully admit that I’ve missed two in my own backyard. 
The Realtor Association of Metropolitan Pittsburgh has been blogging since December 2006 at on RAMP: Real Estate Newswire; and
Jeff Philibin of Allied Home Mortgage in Johnstown also has a Mortgage blog.
Sorry!  Just goes to [...]

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Viral marketing is a subject that I have definitely been thinking alot about given my last two posts.
For real estate agents, the marketing method for a home generally is:

Take great pictures.
Put it on the MLS and the internet.
Run a couple open houses.
Tell other agents about it.
Advertise in newspaper.
Hope it sells, the home is “improved,” or the [...]

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To celebrate the first day of Project Blogger, I’ve decided to release the first update to the list of 500 real estate blogs to watch that I published back in October 2006. My goal with this edition was to ensure that I had a real estate blog for every state, and I believe I’ve accomplished [...]

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Last weekend, I was having a conversation with someone about the number of downtown projects that are in the planning/construction stages and expected to open in 2008-2009. Today, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette goes so far as to say that “[b]y late 2009, you might not recognize the place.”
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has put together a list [...]

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I missed the news yesterday in the paper that the URA is going to take possession of the Garden Theatre on Wednesday. Thanks Doug for bringing it to my attention. Here is the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review article on the news.
Now the question is whether the request for developer proposals that have been released [...]

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Someone has posted on rentacoder here my list of real estate blogs (and a few others) and is trying to pay someone to capture the contact information of the real estate blog owner (as well as whether the blog uses mybloglog).
Any thoughts on who this person is, what they are doing, and how we can stop [...]

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Since starting this blog, I’ve seen the debate about attribution of sources of material a number of times.  But I haven’t seen a good debate about the right to link to material in the first place. 
Greg Swann from the Bloodhound Blog raised a storm yesterday about a real estate blog provider that used a screenshot of his blog and a link to it [...]

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