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We all know the classic Walmart tale: Waltons move in, drive mom and pop stores out of business, reduce total jobs, depress wages, and ultimately, hurt property values. But new data suggests that Walmart may not be as bad for local real estate markets as once thought—the question is, does that hold true for real estate agents as well?

Managing your leads effectively is all about filtering out excess noise to quickly access the people and details you need. With Lead Views, you can customize your Placester leads index to drill down to the information that matters.

At Placester, we believe building and maintaining a real estate website should be incredibly simple. That’s why we’re bringing you the new Placester Dashboard, a redesigned home base for your Placester account.

Realtor Shay Hata started her real estate career off on the right foot with a Placester website. Just now completing a very successful first year in the industry with over $10 million in sales, Hata works with Berkshire Hathaway KoenigRubloff, serving Chicago, IL, and the surrounding suburbs.

How can you avoid being overwhelmed by your many social media marketing campaigns? By working smarter. Colin Ryan explains how.

On Tuesday, the Google team finally muscled in on the cloud computing space by announcing the long-awaited launch of Google Drive, a cloud storage client that’s poised to give competitors like Dropbox and Microsoft’s SkyDrive a run for their money. While Drive certainly stands on the shoulders of its predecessors in terms of its basic structure, features, and even some design aspects, its status as a Google product means it offers some distinct advantages, particularly to real estate professionals. Here are five of those advantages

Multi-MLS allows real estate agents to use multiple IDX integrations to display and search listings from two or more MLSs on a single Placester website.

Google, Yahoo, Bing, Pinterest and many other sites offer additional features when they can verify that the site you say is yours really is yours. Each of these services are able to figure out site ownership through one of two methods: meta tags or an HTML file. So how do you get those to work on a WordPress site?

Placester is proud to announce we’ve received $50 million in Series D investment funding from New Enterprise Associates.

Placester announces its acquisition of RealSatisfied, a suite of customer satisfaction tools that provides big data insights to brokers, agents and brands.

Last year, we teamed up with RealSatisfied to empower agents and brokers with data about how they’re meeting consumers’ needs and expectations. Since then, thousands of Placester customers have begun using RealSatisfied to collect and share feedback from their clients.

Get a glimpse of Placester’s new, 31,000-square-foot office at 100 High Street of Boston’s Financial District and view a virtual tour of the new space.