The believer

Ongoing in New York this week is the InmanNews event "Real Estate Connect NY 2007". I didn't have the opportunity to go there myself but with the benefits of other bloggers I could be able to (at least) take a sneak peak.

Here are some bloggers covering the event.

The Sellsius blog   (http://blog.sellsiusrealestate.com/)
As always a very active blog and so even at the IN event. For a walk through of the exhibition area, take a look at the video below.

(By the way, I like the name of this company....)

FOREM (http://www.futureofrealestatemarketing.com/)
I'm sure Joel will be adding post at an ongoing rate.

The IM event blog   (http://nycblog.realestateconnect.com/)
A way for attendees to set up a personal blogging account.

3Oceans (http://3oceansrealestate.com/blog/)
Kevin is adding comments on the different presentations.

TrueGotham (http://www.truegotham.com/)
Sums up the day.

Redfin (http://blog.redfin.com/blog/redfin/2007/01/at_real_estates_big_inman.html)
Glen Kelman at Redfin has a great post about the experience to be on the panel head on with Alan Dalton from the Move.com. Here is a follow up from 3Oceans. Another one at TechCrunch.

Keep up the good work fellow bloggers.

Update 13th January

I missed one blog that has done a great job to cover the Inman Event.

RealTownReport    (http://realtownreport.realtownblogs.com   )
Frances Flynn Thorsen has put together a number of posts about her experiences from the Inman Event. Includes a large number of photos.

I also noticed that Inman News picked up the list above.

Full disclosure: I'm the Product Manager for a Swedish DCF product. Read more here.

A MAJOR supplier of DCF (Discounted Cash Flow models) solutions has been created when the UK based Circle Software Ltd and US based Realm Business Solutions Inc have decided to merge (The press release).

"Two leading providers of software solutions to the commercial real estate industry, London-based Circle Software and Houston-based Realm Business Solutions, today announced the merging of their respective firms into one global entity.

Based in London , Circle Software was founded in 1990 by Adrian Katz, a designated member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors. Circle’s flagship product is Visual Investor, a property and portfolio valuation software program that is the current industry standard in the UK and is broadly used in many countries within continental Europe and the Asia Pacific region where the UK capitalisation approach is employed. Circle also produces and markets CircleDeveloper, the worldwide standard for development appraisals and pro formas.

Realm’s flagship product, ARGUS, is the industry standard among those countries and companies that employ the discounted cash flow (DCF) methodology to value real estate assets. Pioneered and made popular in the US , DCF methodology is quickly gaining the endorsement of many international standards organisations and universities. Realm’s product suite also includes popular tools for property management, portfolio management and budgeting, automated leasing, business intelligence and collaboration and workflow management. "

This merge will indeed be interesting to follow.
I don't have any numbers but this new company has to be, by far, the number one on the market. Any directory of Investment Analysis Software is too be long but I doubt any other supplier is even close.

Martin Edenström at What.se published a great post about Internet services for the real estate market (in Swedish).

One of the services covered, to be released later in 2007, is hus.se (in English that would be house.com). There aim is to be an information portal and community for house owners.

Behind the initiative is Quality Unlimited AB in Umeå, which started of by purchasing the domain www.hus.se for 400 000 SEK (about 60 000 USD).

Well, the movie "EPIC 2014" made by Robin Sloan for the Museum of Media History has been updated.

It's a brilliant film (9 minutes long) about the possible future of Internet.
You have to see it!