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From Inman Connect in New York

Galen on 01 9, 2008

I’m chatting it up with bloggers and vendors from the Inman Connect conference in New York this week. Since Robbie already covered the big news this morning, I thought I’d post some cool new sites I found here:

FortiusOne is easily the coolest site that you’ve never heard of. They sell their product to brokers or agents and let them let you (the consumer) filter your home search in all sorts of neighborhood based (and RESPA-pushing) ways like populated with “young people,” old homes, high income, etc. The best part is they don’t just tell you what is available, but show it with color-coded polygons on a map. Unfortunately the screenshots they have here of their polygon product are not on their site.

Seekr is a MLS-based, feature packed site (direct competition with our own Estately.com) that will launch (shhh) at the end of the month with more listings than most of our non-MLS based rivals currently have. I haven’t seen their search interface, but the agent tools and listing information pages look great.

Lastly, after his tour of the country, Rudy from Sellsius has set up shop in New York. His new site (100% free WordPress) looks fantastic and he is proving that there is still room for new agent-based blogs to grow and blossom. Rudy’s live stream of the conference is playing random other stuff in the after hours. This is the gem of an interview with Craig Newmark I just watched.

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Galen runs Estately.com, a real estate search website with homes for sale from the MLS in Seattle, Portland, and all of California.