Marsha Moves Austin: Austin Real Estate » Technology http://www.marshamovesaustin.com Experienced and committed to you! Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:31:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Coldwell Banker Mobile App http://www.marshamovesaustin.com/2011/01/coldwell-banker-mobile-app/ http://www.marshamovesaustin.com/2011/01/coldwell-banker-mobile-app/#comments Tue, 18 Jan 2011 00:10:47 +0000 jonl http://www.marshamovesaustin.com/?p=355

Available for iPhone or Android…

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Modular Home

Joe Etherton and Karen Cotter's modular home.

The Statesman has a feature about a high-end modular home prefabricated, delivered in two chunks, and set on a robust foundation. The project,  coordinated by MA Modular for Joe Etherton and Karen Cotter, was not exactly what you think of when you think modular. “The couple paid $235,000 for the lot and about $237,000 for the 1,500-square-foot house, including the cost of some upgrades such as massaranduba (Brazilian redwood) siding,” according to the article.

Etherton’s and Cotter’s abode doesn’t scream “modular.” It looks like any upscale, contemporary South Austin house, with a standing-seam metal roof and moss-green stucco along with the rich-looking massaranduba on the exterior. The bathrooms have subway tile, and the kitchen is sleek with Silestone countertops and Merillat cabinets. Bamboo floors and light woods throughout, along with a wealth of windows and a ceiling that slopes from 9 feet to 11 feet, make the house look bigger than it is. Triple sliding-glass doors open from the living room onto a back deck of more than 500 square feet. The master bedroom opens onto the deck, as well. Beyond that, there’s a big, grassy yard for the kids to play in.

[Link to the full article] | [Link to images of the home]

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Marc Davison envisions an ideal system for real estate searches – wouldn’t this be grand? He imagines “a Pandora for real estate. A system that allowed users to tailor a search by liking and disliking the listing results the system provides them based on their broad parameters. By crunching our responses along with those collected by all who came before us, search could be considerably more productive.”

The nuances of how this could be created are not lost on me. But if Amazon can do it with books and Pandora can do it with songs, I’m convinced real estate could do it with listings. Especially if we could find a way to suck in the user generated content – the things people are thinking, tweeting and facebooking about properties. Yes, a legal minefield – but one we should attempt to sweep.

What would you like to see in a real estate search engine?

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