I came across this interesting article in the Seattle PI that covered tiny condos being developed in Belltown, a neighborhood near downtown Seattle.  The condos start at 296 square feet, which to me screams "crash pad" in the city.  It’s also perfect for the person that wants to have their cake and eat it too.  […]

If you’re like the average home buyer who has too little space on that bulky 15" monitor to open two browsers – one for scouting new listings and another to do valuation, comps, and sales research on Zillow.com – then we’ve got the perfect tool for you (and no, it’s not a 30 inch […]

Photo courtesy of Habitat for Humanity
Recently we had a company picnic – you know, the kind where bosses get dunked in a tank courtesy of gleeful dry employees. To vote for certain dunkees you pledged dollars to Habitat for Humanity and those who drew top dollar got wet.  More than $3000 was raised!
That reminded me […]

In July we announced the first phase of our partnership with Yahoo! Real Estate which exposes Zestimates and comparable homes to their broad audience.  Today we are equally excited to announce the next two phases in our partnership with Yahoo! Real Estate; providing Zindex information on their redesigned real estate homepage and adding Zestimate charts […]

The 7th Edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is now up on the The Landlord Blog. Subjects covered include Fundamentals Behind the Housing Boom, Maintaining a Lifestyle of Conformity, Brokers vs Agents, and a vast selection of others! 
The Carnival of Real Estate’s next host will be Nubricks. Due to the upcoming Labor Day […]

True, it might not be Snakes on a Plane, but as a homeowner, rats on a fence comes mighty close. (Wikipedia photo of a brown rat.)
We moved into our house last fall and within a few months I saw my neighbor putting little boxes of poison on the fence between our properties. He pointed […]

We’ve been talking quite a bit lately about our Open API (which is a free way for a third-party Web site to recreate some of Zillow’s functionality on their domain).  We announced the Open API at the Inman Conference in late July, and last week highlighted a few of the 130+ plus sites that […]

The first home Elvis ever owned was purchased with the royalties he earned making Heartbreak Hotel. How ironic that it’s turning into another sort of heartbreak - mainly for the jilted would-be buyers.
Scene I unfolded this past April when Elvis’ Memphis home went up for auction on eBay. In Scene II, all seemed to go […]

By Day 3 of my summer vacations I’m usually in a car, driving around in very hot weather, looking for a vacation home that I can’t afford. Day 4 I’m still looking, but slowly realizing it’s not gonna happen and Days 5-6 are spent laughing over how ludicrous it would be to buy a second […]

The 6th Edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is now up at the Pine Needle Lawn blog. The carnival includes all sorts of subjects this week; from the lawsuit against the NAR to saving energy by smart appliance shopping (the pick of the week).  
The Carnival of Real Estate’s next host will be […]

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