Sara Bonert's Real Estate Internet Marketing Blog (Zillow Industry Relations Manager))

Ever feel like you keep hearing about the same real estate topics in the media over and over again.  And wonder, why are we stuck talking about this subject.  Has any progress really been made?  Sometimes if you step back and look in the rear view mirror, you can see just how far the real estate ...

AR forgive me, it has been 8 days since my last post....  If you would have told me I would feel this much guilt for not posting in week when I first started blogging, I would have said you were crazy.  Now I get this tinge at the end of every day that I log off and didn't blog.  Not sure if this...

Whenever I read a post about Zillow there are inevitability comments that sound like something from Goldilocksand The Three Bears fairy tail- My Zestimate is too high, My Zestimate is too low, My Zestimate is just right....  My answer has always been the same, it is simply a starting point and is...

The City of Chicago is pricing us out of here!  I hate to rant on a Friday, but the most recently passed legislation infuriates me to no end.  In the last year, here are the major additional taxes that we have been hit with (on top of all sorts of other little increases in fines, fees and taxes t...

Last week Brad Inman opened Inman Connect with 5 points he felt Realtors needed to embrace to make a different in 2008.  He stated that nationally real estate was down 18% year over year.  What are we going to do to help move the trends in the right direction?  These points are all Brad's and I t...

Recently my colleague and fellow ARer (is that a word?) Spencer, did a post recapping a recent survey of Realtors who use Zillow.  It was very interesting and I wanted to give that post some attention.  To build on Spencer's post, it is also interesting to look at the flip side with regard to how...

This is a bit overdue, but I wanted to get some of my pictures from the Beer For Blogger's event held at Blogger Connect last week in New York up.  So many reviews have been written already about the event, so I'll spare you the details.  I would just like to say that it was wonderful seeing ever...

I often speak on the way Gen X and Y search for real estate information and am met by looks of awe and wonderment from Agents outside of these generational categories.  Well, I put the shoe on the other foot over the holidays, and I was the one in awe.  I recently wrote a popular post called "Top...

If only I was as creative as Bob Stewart to come up with  10 reasons why you should attend their Active Rain gathering on January 9th in New York....   But it's Friday, I just had a painful root canal and have absolutely no creative writing skills at this point, so I'll just try to lure you to at...