Real Estate News Aggregator

[Bobby Gerry]

In my free time I have been working on building a decent real estate news aggregator. It's actually not as easy as I thought it was going to be when I started. 

I've built two news aggregators, each called simply enough NewsOne and NewsTwo. 

• For NewsOne, I tried to combine all of the RSS feeds, news feeds, blog feeds, and even a Twitter feed I follow, into one basic compact location. I think it turned out decently enough. I also gave the aggregator a kind of news ticker feel.

• After building NewsOne, I later decided, no, I want to see this in a much simpler way. And so, like the late night tinkerer I am, I built NewsTwo which is far simpler and only pulls four basic sets of information through Google News. As fun as NewsOne is, NewsTwo is the one I go to more often. I played around with the Google News search terms a lot and finally was able to engineer a page of four streams that is generally the most interesting to me.

For NewsTwo, I found that after making the House Flipping feed and the US Housing Market feed, it was very difficult to make a solid home mortgage feed because even slight differences in the search terms produce entirely different results. And so I had to make two separate mortgage feeds, one called Home Mortgages and the other called US Home Mortgage. - Those two different search terms pull in entirely different articles -. Also, behind the scenes in Home Mortgages, I had to filter out articles about mortgages in other countries. 

Anyway, please take a look and see what you think. I'll keep tinkering with these aggregators to try to make them better.  - Best, Bobby