Personalized real estate event feed

A computer system for providing a personalized real estate event feed, the system comprising:

• a processor and memory configured to execute software instructions embodied within the following components;
• a user profile component that stores user profile information for one or more users of the system;
• one or more event sources that include various sources of real estate related information;
• a real estate data store that stores information from the event sources, user profile information, and user-to-event association information;
• an event detection component that detects separate events from the event sources and stores the events in the real estate data store;
• a user-event correlation component that periodically analyzes the real estate data store to identify events relevant to particular users and to associate those events with the particular users;
• a feed management component that manages a personalized feed for each user of the system, wherein the personalized feed includes feed items based on the identified events for each particular user;
• a feed rendering component that renders the personalized feed for a given user upon request by the user;
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• a feed interactivity component that handles user interaction with interactive feed items in the user's personalized feed, wherein an interactive feed item can receive a response from the user.

A computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions for controlling a computer system to display a personalized user feed for a user of a real estate application, wherein the instructions, upon execution, cause a processor to perform actions comprising:

• receiving user information that identifies a particular user requesting to display the user's personalized user feed of real estate events that have occurred in a particular time period;
• retrieving one or more latest feed items that represent events that have occurred in the time period specified;
• rendering a feed that mixes feed items from multiple data sources in a uniform format for display in a feed format that is different than the native format of the underlying information;
• displaying the rendered feed to the user;
• receiving a user interaction with an interactive feed item in the displayed feed that requests a user response;
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• recording a response indicated by the user interaction and providing the response to a requesting party.