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I’m really happy to say that the version 3 beta of the Local Market Explorer WordPress plugin is finally available for everyone to try out. For those who don’t know what Local Market Explorer is, it’s a way to embed local area info from Zillow, Education.com, Walk Score, Yelp, TeachStreet, and Nile Guide directly into [...]

The final release of version 2 of the Local Market Explorer WordPress Plugin is still a week or so away, but for the adventurous, we’re making available a beta version to try out. I feel pretty confident that there aren’t major bugs though, so you should be perfectly safe with the upgrade (if you’re currently [...]

If you’re interested in learning more about the Onboard Listings API I mentioned on Geek Estate in January (and again in March), there are two recent posts from the Onboard Blog worth reading: General Update Listings API FAQ They’ve announced two early partners – ListingPress & Z57. I haven’t seen an example implementation from Z57 [...]

Today’s post is my first contribution to the Geek Estate Blog, but before I dive into the details of today’s post, I wanted to take a quick second to do an intro about my background in the online world. My name is Matthew Swanson and I’ve been in the online world right about 10 years [...]

There was a list of the Top Twenty Open APIs and Mashup Resources for Web Developers (which i Tweeted about yesterday) published two days ago that the web developers reading this blog might find useful. Not all the APIs mentioned are specific to real estate; in fact, I guess the Zillow API is the only one [...]

If you are an agent, broker, or web developer in the New York City real estate market — there is a new real estate API from the New York Times that you may want to check out. Here are the four specific API calls that make up the Real Estate API: Listings Percentiles Listings Counts [...]

The folks at Onboard have been busy — they just released version 0.9 of their Lifestyle Listings Engine API that I wrote about back in January. Looks like lots of cool features were added, including the ability to search based on school performance, distance to amenities, and getting additional content of interest relating to a [...]

The last time I posted on Geek Estate, I wrote about how to use the Trulia API from a PHP page. Since watching mortgage rates fall is a lot more fun than watching home prices fall, I decided to implement a simple widget that uses the recently released Zillow Mortgage API. This time, I’m using [...]

I think there’s a strong case to be made that help figuring out how to get from point A to point B is something that home buyers would appreciate during their home selection process. It’s likely some buyers wonder how to get to their current job from every listing they seriously consider. Or a young [...]

Onboard announced their new Lifestyle Listings Engine yesterday — you can see the overview here. Onboard’s Lifestyle Listings Engine provides the first Human Centered Search (HCS) experience in real estate. Our flexible Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) combine technology and data in an easy-to-implement package that still leaves you with total freedom for design and creativity.  [...]

There are tons of free data sources for your real estate web site and I have one more to add to my list — Walk Score. If you’re not familiar with Walk Score, this is their description of how it works: Walk Score helps people find walkable places to live. Walk Score calculates the walkability [...]

The chances are very good that if there is an interesting data set out there that is unavailable without licensing costs, someone is going to make it available to be syndicated for free. Today, access to one of those compelling data sets very relevant to the real estate industry — school data — just became [...]