This post covers the perpetration of a talk on how online services are influencing the real estate business. This collection of links is noteworthy:
Market and neighborhood information: Market Snapshot, Altos Research, Trulia and Neighboroo
Realtor information (reviews and commissions): HomeThinking and Redfin
Comprehensive database and listing information: Realtor.com, Zillow, and PropertyShark
Of those Neighboroo is a quick and easy Google maps tool that shows median home price for all the counties in the nation. I found it useful for looking for up and coming neighborhoods. I've always like zillow for their valuations and redfin will, in my view, be revolutionary. HomeThinking is a bit under-reviewed and I would imagine it would take awhile to develop the database. One that you would love to see take, but I doubt it will.
