San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) July 21, 2010
Eight ground-breaking companies have been recognized at Real Estate Connect San Francisco on July 15, 2010 at the Hilton Union Square and have been awarded the Inman News Innovator Award. These eight innovative firms are using technologies to break new ground in the planet of actual estate and advertising and marketing and are providing intriguing technologies in the regions of mobile devices, technology, web 2., social media and significantly a lot more.

Each year, Inman News announces the launch of the Inman News Innovator Awards procedure with a call for nominations many months prior to the Genuine Estate Connect conference. Nominations are open to all and are submitted online. An Inman News review team considers the nominations and selects a list of finalists, and the finalists are drawn from the nominees and a list of other prospects suggested by the Inman News editorial group. The review group selects the winners from the list of finalists.

Winners had been announced in 5 categories, with an extra two individual awards. Also, one particular finalist was honored with a very first-ever People’s Selection Innovator Award, chosen based on voting in an on the web survey.

The winners are:

Most Revolutionary Brokerage or Franchise: The GoodLife Team
The GoodLife Group, a boutique real estate firm based in Austin, Texas, requires an agent group approach to its brokerage. The small business has a focus on training and technologies and is led by Krisstina Smart, principal and broker. The web site characteristics home, neighborhood and school specifics and details about region activities.

Most Innovative New Technologies: ZipRealty’s HomeScan
The ZipRealty HomeScan iPhone app function incorporates multiple-listing-service-based home data with augmented reality — users can point their wise phone’s camera inside the neighborhood where they are standing to view an overlay of nearby houses that are for sale or recently sold. ZipRealty’s app also offers photographs, maps and details on for-sale properties in about 4,900 cities.

Most Revolutionary Web Service: Houston Association of Realtors’ Realtor Match
Realtor Match, designed by the Houston Association of Realtors, permits customers to search for Realtors based on ratings from customer surveys and based on their transaction history, such as sactive listings and closed sales. Users could search for Realtors by map area. Agent complaints prompted the association to cut the search tool from its common Realtor-search tools accessible at HAR.com, though this award honors the innovation as initially created and launched.

Most Revolutionary Blog: Tech Savvy Agent blog
The Tech Savvy Agent blog functions three real estate voices, which includes Stephen Pacinelli, Suzanne Roy and Chris Smith. The web site offers up hardware and software testimonials, videos, tech advice and tips, and integration with social media. A recent post sparked more than 300 tweets on Twitter and 264 “shares” on Facebook.

Most Revolutionary Media Site: ProPublica Eye on Loan Modifications
ProPublica is an independent, nonprofit news agency that has a mission to create investigative journalism in the public interest. ProPublica’s Eye on Loan Modifications project continues to shine a light on actual efficiency of huge servicers participating in the federal government’s loan-mod applications and serves to connect these property owners who have sought loan mods with journalists who are functioning on connected articles.

People’s Option Award: DocuSign’s ESIGNControl app
The DocuSign ESIGNControl app allows genuine estate professionals to send and obtain documents from their iPhone to be electronically signed by purchasers and sellers, and also permits specialists to oversee document information and corrections.

Innovator of the Year No. 1: Sherry Chris, president and CEO of Better Houses and Gardens Actual Estate LLC.
Sherry Chris has served in executive roles for a range of big brokerages across the nation and in Canada, including Royal LePage, True Living, Prudential and Coldwell Banker, and most recently served Realogy Corp. in launching the Far better Homes and Gardens real estate franchise. Her forward-thinking approach to social media, technology and branding has helped to develop this new franchise. Throughout the Real Estate Connect conference Chris discussed a just-launched “Beta Brokers” Internet project that profiles a quantity of real estate sector innovators.

Innovator of the Year No. 2: Dale Stinton, CEO, National Association of Realtors.
Dale Stinton, CEO for the National Association of Realtors, helped to launch the association’s Second Century Ventures, an incubator for tech innovation. His leadership has also brought about the deal to form Realtors Home Resource — a enormous national house database project now in improvement. He also oversaw a partnership by NAR with e-signature provider DocuSign, and the launch of the Game Changers system that has fostered innovation at Realtor associations across the country, as well as the Proper Tools, Proper Now initiative to place helpful resources into the hands of member Realtors.

Since their inception in 1997, the annual awards have recognized firms which includes LendingTree, Coldwell Banker, Sawbuck Realty, Redfin, ActiveRain, vFlyer and Closing.com, and people which includes Frank LLosa of Frankly Realty and FranklyMLS.com, Bob Hale of the Houston Association of Realtors, and Mark Lesswing of the National Association of Realtors’ Center for Realtor Technology.

For further details, please speak to Katie Lance, Marketing Manager, Inman News at (510) 658-9252 ext. 147 or katie (at) inman (dot) com

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Inman News produces the executive level Actual Estate Connect conference twice a year, after in New York and after in San Francisco. This three day, high-level event focuses on the future of true estate marketing and technologies. Inman News also produces Agent Reboot, a one particular-day occasion geared toward actual estate agents to get them up to speed on the newest true estate technologies and strategies. Agent Reboot will be accessible in 12 cities in 2010.

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