and the winner is... : Discover Columbus

Discover Columbus

Jul. 27, 2006

and the winner is...

the winners "are"

Most Innovative Real Estate Blog

"Inman News for the first time this year gave an award for the Most Innovative Real Estate Blog, adding a new category. The winner of this first-time award was Urban Digs, published by New York City real estate agent Noah Rosenblatt, who launched the blog last September. In addition to entries about real estate situations and questions, Rosenblatt offers live chat sessions with site visitors every weekday.

Other finalists in the blog category were SocketSite, Rain City Guide, Matrix, The Walk-Through and the Center for Realtor Technology's Blog."

Congratulations Urban Digs.....

Most Innovative Real Estate Brokerage

"Inman Innovator Awards were handed out Wednesday in eight additional categories, including Most Innovative Real Estate Brokerage, which went to RE/MAX International. The company in April launched the first phase of a national network of broker IDX Web sites, offering more than 1.7 million available home listings through www.remax.com."

The other finalists in the brokerage/franchise/Realtor category were Weichert Realtors, Intero Real Estate, Chase International, Michael Saunders & Co., and Alain Pinel Realtors."

Congratulations Re/Max International and all the independently owned and operated R/Ms. I don't understand the appeal of a national network of IDX Web sites... real estate is local....

And the category I was watching most carefully..... because Columbus based Real Living was a finalist....

(Most?) Innovative Web Service

"Trulia captured the award for Innovative Web Service for its real estate search engine. Other finalists in this category were VisiStat, HouseValues' HomePages, PropSmart, Homethinking, Google Base, RealLiving.com, HomeGain's Neighborhood Maps and Coldwell Banker for its online video library."

Congratulations Trulia. I don't understand Trulia... I think it like the big Z skews data... but what do I know...

No link here to the article as Inman.com archived articles are only available by paid subscription but you may read the full artlcle on the Columbus in the News category of Columbus Best Blog today.

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Jul. 28, 2006 - re: and the winner is...

Posted by Sandy Mattingly

Urban Digs is a cool website, and probably more "innovative" than the others because of the live chat feature. He has very good content, he posts a lot, and he has useful regular features for our Manhattan market such as highlighting buildings he thinks are relative values, or talking about price drops in a category or neighborhood. I don't know if I knew his name before he got the award, but I dropped him an email of congratulations. As far as the other nominees, I know (and love) Jonathan Miller's quant-heavy site (Matrix) but don't know how innovative it is (beyond the novelty of an appraiser willing to go on record about a whole host of things, many of which are not part of an industry PR campaign. Rain City is a terrific collection of sources and bloggers -- like herding cats? So that is definitely innovative. I thought the nomination for The Walk Through was a joke, a suck-up to the New York Times. The blog is pretty spare most of the time. The Times real estate section on the web is innovative, with interesting multi-media, but the blog ... not so much. Nice blog here in Columbus, Maureen!

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Jul. 28, 2006 - re: and the winner is...

Posted by Maureen McCabe

Thanks Sandy.. I like Matrix a lot. I probably read Rain City Guide before any of the others, I like some of the Rain City writers, and am not fond of others.

I started reading Urban Digs and Socket Site after they were named finalists but enjoy reading both.. I read so many real estate blogs they all run together. Maureen

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