Yo, Check Out My Listings— and Put Me in Your “Top Friends” List

Posted by: Maya Roney on October 08

Zolve, a self-proclaimed “Facebook for Real Estate Professionals,” launches tomorrow. The network already has 2,000 per-registered members, and a pretty interesting birth story. Zolve was actually designed in a garage in Baghdad by an Army captain and brokerage owner during his free time over there. No kiddin’.

The site is basically a place for realtors to get referrals and connect with other real estate professionals to increase business opportunities. For $395 a year (for the first year), members can set up their own pages, complete with photos (of properties and of themselves, I assume) and plenty of blogging space. There’s also an application that allows clients to leave feedback, eBay-style.

“Zolve is the first network built by real estate professionals, for real estate professionals, to connect, make money and build their spheres of influence,” said Zolve founder Brian Wilson in a release. “Its impact could be utterly transformative to how real estate professionals do business online.”


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Realtor

October 8, 2007 07:28 PM

Don't hold your breath. Activerain is free, and when I went there, there was a big bar saying "closed except for beta users." No where to leave an email asking to be notified when I can sign on. And a big circling globe, like a glossy version of '80s "World Wide Web" logos.

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