With the XXIX Olympiad - The 2008 Summer Olympic Games - officially underway in Beijing China I thought it would be interesting to have a small online real estate olympiad of our own.
 

Now this will be nothing like the 10,500 athletes competing in 302 events in 20 sports – by the way, did you see the opening ceremony on Friday - the “One World One Dream” one-hour long artistic extravaganza. It was spectacular…the unbelievable precision drum session…the human printing press water simulation…the floating torch relay circling the Birds Nest atop the National Stadium before lightening the official Olympic flame…Wow!
 

OK, back to our own Real Estate Trends Olympiad. I have added this post to the Inman Real Estate Trends Community and will be coordinating the Real Estate Olympiad through that site. So pop over to http://www.inman.com/community/groups/real-estate-trends/2008/08/11/real-estate-olympics before Friday 6PM Pacific, and help select the Company that you consider to be one of the industry's premier Pacesetters, i.e. Companies that are creating and leading our industry towards change.

Then over the coming weekend I will select among all the nominations the Top 8 finalists that will be posted next Monday the 18^th both on RealBlogging and Inman Community. Next week we will vote to determine the three companies that are our medal winners for the title: Real Estate Pacesetter 2008.

When nominating this week (and you can nominate more than one) and voting next week, keep the following criteria in mind:

1. Innovative Web 2.0 company or user of Web 2.0 technology
2. The size, need and demand for the companies/services
3. The quality or uniqueness of their services
4. The potential impact of their services on the industry

Please provide at a minimum; the company’s name and website as well as a short paragraph describing the company and motivating their nomination.

Join the Inman Trends Group (no charge) and submit your nomination today.