Category — Technology

I TOLD YOU SO… Century 21 is creating their own channel on YouTube to post the features of all open homes. The Future of Real Estate has the whole story.

Virtual tours are rapidly disappearing. I like the MTV “Cribs” approach to creating YouTube virtual guided tours for online buyers to view. We’re all going to be in the movies!

All that is needed is a camcorder. Home sellers can conduct their own tour “Cribs” style tour, Realtors can create a YouTube video tour, or a traditional virtual tour media company can do the video and download it to YouTube.

A C-21 YouTube video is here.   The Realtor should take drama lessons.

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4REALZ launched to provide training for real estate agents to effectively market online.  Yes, bring it on.  Agents will love this blog.  The site is a knowledge gold mine for agents.

SUNPOWER in Silicon Valley leads in solar power technology.  Sunpower’s web site has a request for estimate, and free estimates, for all sizes and applications of solar power panels from milliwatt to megawatt.

The installation cost recovery time for solar panels may be just seven years as the price of electricity rises, and solar electric power decreases.

THE NEW YORK TIMES reports that Silicon Valley may become the nations source of solar power panels, producing more power per panel, with declining prices, following Moore’s Law. I agree. As OPEC oil producers find ways to boost the price of crude oil, and carbon energy becomes more expensive, including ethanol, solar power will become ever more competitive.

At the same time in Silicon Valley new solar technology is making more powerful solar panels at ever decreasing cost. Solar panels are after all silicon computer chips. Consequently, Moore’s Law applies.

It is likely that the output in watts will double, triple, quadruple, logarithmically, while at the same time the price of solar “chips” will rapidly decline by halves repeatedly.

If all homes in the US had solar panel roofs the US would be selling power to Canada.  When it becomes cost competitive, solar power could supply much more than 20% of the USA’s future energy needs.  If Silicon Valley becomes the solar panel capital of the world, the future of the economy of the Bay Area, California, and the nation will be bright.