By David Gibbons, Zillow.com | June 13, 2008 I had fun chatting with Mike Price yesterday about CoRE 94 - click here to listen to our conversation. Mike’s incredibly insightful when it comes to blog marketing and much of our conversation focused on that topic. Listen out for Mike’s thoughts on the best strategy for local viral videos, B2B vs B2C blogging and the importance of niche marketing. And if that’s not enough to peak your curiosity, we also discussed the most effective RE blogging idea that no-one’s really pursuing yet. Enjoy!

By Drew Meyers, Zillow.com | June 5, 2008 This afternoon, I spoke with Jay Thompson — the man behind the 93rd editon of the CoRE at the Phoenix Real Estate Guy, for this week’s CoRE podcast. He recently started his own brokerage (Thompson’s Realty) and is one of the real class acts of the RE.net. Jay is on just about every social network, which makes finding him online easy. Further, he earns almost all of his business through his online efforts — so there is certainly a lot you can learn from him if you are a real estate professional trying to build your book of business online. I hope you enjoy the conversation (I certain did)!

On Friday, I spoke with Nigel Swaby, who hosted the 92nd editon of the CoRE over at the Salt Lake Real Estate Blog, for this week’s CoRE podcast.

By Drew Meyers, Zillow.com | May 15, 2008 larry_cragun.jpgI spoke with Larry Cragun, who published the 90th editon of the CoRE over at the Seattle Real Estate Professionals blog, for this week’s CoRE podcast. Larry is an avid blogger who maintains RealEstateUndressed and also runs the Neighborhoods Undressed Blog Network!

By Drew Meyers, Zillow.com | May 8, 2008 Rich JacobsonI spoke with Rich Jacobson from Active Rain today for this week’s CoRE podcast. Even though we both live near Seattle, I haven’t really had the opportunity to speak with Rich before, but am certainly glad to finally catch up with him! We spoke about a range of topics — including the difference between real estate markets in Kansas and Washington, his role as a community builder at AR, and of course his thoughts on this week’s winners.

By Drew Meyers, Zillow.com | April 18, 2008 Doug HeddingsToday, I had the pleasure of speaking with this week’s carnival host, Douglas Heddings, for this week’s CoRE podcast. Doug is a Senior VP at Prudential Douglas Elliman, and still somehow finds time to maintain the True Gotham blog. In my mind, Doug is certainly one of the class-acts in the RE.net. We spoke about a number of topics — including the impact the declining dollar is having on the Manhattan market, a bit about his overall blogging strategy, SPAM mail, and the Manhattan market — hope you enjoy the conversation as much as I did!

By Drew Meyers, Zillow.com | April 9, 2008 I had the pleasure of talking with this week’s carnival host, Jim Duncan, this morning for this week’s podcast. Jim is an agent for Century 21 Manly Associates in the Charlottesville, VA market. I’d argue he is one of the smartest real estate bloggers out there, and writes (mainly) for consumers at RealCentralVA.com and for the industry at AgentGenius. We spoke a bit about the carnival, blogging, and his local market — hope you enjoy the conversation!

Mike Price from MLBroadcast.Com steps in to host the CoRE podcast interview for the 80th edition with Jim Cronin of The Real Estate Tomato. Jim talks about his company, his favorite blogs and the unusual theme he selected as the host of this week's CoRE.

I spoke with Denny Oh this morning, who hosted the 73rd edition of the carnival at SanDiegOh.com, for this week’s CoRE Podcast. Enjoy the conversation!

I spoke with John Wake this afternoon, who hosted the 70th edition of the carnival at Arizona Real Estate Notebook, for this week’s CoRE Podcast. I hope you enjoy the conversation!

I spoke with Shailesh Ghimire, who hosted the 65th edition of the carnival at Arizona Mortgage Guru, for this week’s CoRE Podcast. In addition to touching on his selection criteria for which posts he chose to highlight, Shailesh and I talked a bit about using blogs and social media to market a business. Enjoy the conversation!

The latest CoRE Podcast is now posted. Benn Rosales from Single Pointe Realty was my latest guest. Benn hosted the 63rd edition of the carnival, for this week’s CoRE Podcast. I hope everyone enjoys the discussion!

I spoke with Oliver Muoto from vFlyer, who hosted the 62th edition of the carnival, for this week’s CoRE Podcast. Oliver and I definitely have the same philosophy regarding the benefits of corporate blogging - educating people, marketing, and highlighting those using your product in innovative ways. Hope everyone enjoys the conversation!

This afternoon, I had the chance to talk with Danilo Bogdanovic, who hosted the 58th edition of the carnival, for this week’s CoRE Podcast. MyBlogLog has certainly done a lot to humanize real estate blogging (and blogging in general), but there’s still nothing like actually speaking to someone. I always enjoy getting on the phone with a carnival host for a podcast, as it brings another human element to blogging that is often missed sitting behind a computer. Hope everyone enjoys the conversation!

t’s been a couple weeks since the last CoRE podcast, but we got back on track this week. This afternoon, I had the pleasure of speaking with Allan Shannon from Lands of America, which hosted the 55th edition of the carnival at TheLandJournal.com, for this week’s CoRE Podcast. I thought it was a great conversation, particularly Allan’s thoughts about rural vs metro real estate trends (towards the end of the podcast). Hopefully, you find some value in listening to the discussion. Note that my other office phone rang during the podcast, so I had to edit out a small piece in the middle - I don’t think it’s too choppy though.

To say the 50th edition of the carnival was anything less than spectacular would be a travesty (28 comments speak volumes on their own). This morning, I had the pleasure of speaking with the man behind the curtain, Toby Boyce, for this week’s CoRE Podcast. I thoroughly enjoyed the 12-minute conversation — so hopefully, you find some value in listening to the discussion (or you can just listen to learn a bit more about Toby). I must say, it’s pretty cool we’re half way to the 100th edition. And, again, a huge thanks has to go to everyone that has supported the carnival — both hosting and submitting (and special thanks to those who have done both).

This morning, I caught up with Michael Simonsen for this week’s CoRE Podcast. Michael hosted the 48th edition of the carnival at Altos Research Real Estate Insights. We touched on a variety of topics; business benefits of blogging, the Silicon Valley market, the “blogging about others’ listings” debate, and photos. Hopefully everyone finds this chat as engaging as I did. Thanks Michael! Drew Meyers

Colorful subjects, colorful posts. Appropriately, today's 46th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate uses a color theme this week when annointing the winners since Craig Schiller, host of the carnival, is a home stager in Chicago and the author/owner/stager of the Home Staging, Rants & Raves blog. Craig's biz is to "... professionally merchandise properties using style, scale, proportion, color, and flow to ultimately make a home "unforgettable" in the eyes of the buyer." Go take a look! http://www.realestaging.blogspot.com/

This afternoon, I spoke with Justin Smith from the Christian Real Estate Network for the latest CoRE Podcast. He hosted the 45th edition of the carnival yesterday on his companies’ blog. It was a great chat - Justin is certainly passionate about helping real estate professionals market themselves on line. Additionally, like most other bloggers I speak with, he enjoys the networking aspect of blogging. I hope everyone enjoys the conversation as much as I did!

This morning, I caught up with Kevin Warmath, who hosted the 44th edition of the carnival last Tuesday, for the latest CoRE podcast. Due to hectic schedules last week, we didn’t have time to schedule a podcast until today. I’m very impressed with Kevin’s ability to attract clients from his blog — 2-3 phone calls a week from his blog is pretty impressive if you ask me. He purposely doesn’t write about industry issues so that he can focus entirely on consumer content, though this might be the reason much of the carnival’s real estate professional audience may have not come across his North Fulton County Real Estate blog yet. I enjoyed the chat. Hopefully, you do too. Thanks Kevin! ~Drew Meyers

Homethinking made its maiden voyage today as host of the 43rd edition of the Carnival of Real Estate. Emerging as the most interesting posts of the week, according to Homethinking, are posts by Broker Bryant and Greg Swan at Bloodhound Blog, both taking on last week's 60 Minutes program about the real estate biz and specifically, Redfin. Head on over and take a look!

Are you considering an offshore investment? If you have your eye on some overseas real estate, click on the podcast link to get to know Harvey Edgecombe -- the London real estate market is his specialty. Harvey recently hosted the 38th carnival of real estate on his blog, Renthusiast.org and that was also the first international appearance of the carnival. This call was recorded just over a week ago. If you follow real estate blogs, you'll probably know Renthusiast.org for its thoughtful analysis and its no-frills appearance. I enjoyed chatting with Harvey; he's a smart guy who calls it like it is and who is clearly ahead of the pack in the UK where real estate blogging is still scarce. Thanks, Harvey!

Jay Thompson: "I'm not typically a rule-breaker kind of a guy." By David Gibbons, Director, Community Relations Categories: Carnival of Real Estate , Real Estate Industry Jayt_2 That's my favorite quote from a very enjoyable discussion I had with Jay Thompson, who was my latest CoRE Podcasts guest. Jay hosted the 37th CoRE this week on his blog, The Phoenix Real Estate Guy. Yes, he did break the rules -- click the Podcast button below to find out why. It was great to meet Jay -- and fascinating to learn how he and Francy (Jay's wife and business partner) got into the business of selling land in AZ as an extension to their Phoenix residential real estate practice.

When in New York, do what the New Yorkers do: Party! That's right, a dinner party theme was used to announce this week's winners of the 36th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate, posted on NY Houses 4 Sale by the hostess with the most-est, Christine Forgione. Thanks, Christine, for a delicious ride through this week's lineup, with the main course going to Greg Swann's post, Egoism in Action.

Maureen Francis specializes in premium real estate in Oakland County, Michigan and I was keen to get her opinion on the recent increase in for sale inventory in Detroit due to layoffs in the auto industry. Detroit real estate has made the news in recent weeks -- one Reuters headline declares; "Houses cheaper than cars in Detroit". I wanted to know if Maureen was seeing much of an impact on high-end homes in Detroit -- to find out what she said, listen to this week's CoRE podcast.

Michael Price hosted the 34th Carnival of Real Estate last Monday and I caught up with Mike last week to chat about the carnival and his video listings business, ML Podcast. Click the link below to listen to meet Michael and hear our conversation -- Mike explains why your listings should be on iTunes and how to write a blog post about the sub-prime mortgage tragedy that stands out from the crowd.

The 31st Carnival of Real Estate is hosted by Daniel Rothamel who blogs at the Real Estate Zebra. Daniel discusses Realtor recruiting, niche real estate markets, his passion for basketball and the Virginia real estate market. You’ll also learn how the Real Estate Zebra got its name.

The Carnival of Real Estate turns 30 today and is posted at Pittsburgh Homes Daily. This week's edition took a Valentine's flavor and handed out three awards -- the Dinner Out, Dozen Roses, and Box of Chocolates Awards. You'll have to take a look for yourself to discover the winners!

The Carnival of Real Estate is on the Bloodhound Blog, so we called Gregg Swann to chat about this week’s best blog posts in Real Estate. Greg denies learning anything new but he has a few opinions about the coming shakeout in the mortgage industry and the criteria for quality blogging, particularly about real estate. Zillow’s David Gibbons’ wrote the winning carnival post this week and also interviews Greg on this podcast. And no, this week’s judging wasn’t rigged it was actually rather thorough as you’ll hear in Greg’s explanation of the team effort at Bloodhound.