So here is something I was reading on Tech Crunch this morning about real estate start ups on the web. Cyber Homes, a startup that I would loved to have been the founder of is a real estate mapping service that provides high level overviews and more specific statistics based information about real estate trends. Lets hope they release an API and blow MLS out of the water! From what the article says, they are using Microsoft’s Silver Light for most of their rich dashboard controls. My opinion of Silver Light sort of makes this an infrastructure that I don’t really agree with and thus sort of ruins the service for me but at very least the article is reporting that while real estate markets are on the down, the number of people researching online is very much still on the rise.

This is great news to sLajax developers because we are currently working on a product that will allow Toronto Real Estate Agents to automate the streaming of their MLS listings data directly from the TREB servers, thus enabling the client to directly update their website with their listing data by logging into TREB just as they would normally. It is still undecided as to the presentation layer that will be developed to but we have been very eager to present some sort of highly interactive mapping application similar to housing maps, as a starting point for users to then select their area and get more information on the site.

In any event, it’s super great to see that Tech Crunch is reporting a rise in online-viewer-ship because this means that great tools like Cyberhomes and the application that we are developing will bring lots of benefit to realtor’s who are looking for a way to stand out with the listings on their website.