Are you considering an offshore investment? If you have your eye on some overseas real estate, click on the podcast link to get to know Harvey Edgecombe — the London real estate market is his specialty. Harvey recently hosted the 38th carnival of real estate on his blog, Renthusiast.org and that was also the first […]

The 40th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is now live at Transparent RE, where Pat Kitano hosted the carnival for the first time, grouping the highlighted blog posts by themes such "New Business Models," "Real Estate Text Book," "Local Scenes," New Bloggers on the Radar," and "Cheat the Prophet." All good stuff. Meanwhile, […]

You read about the guy who lives in a 96-square foot house outside of Sebastopol, California (of course it’s California!) and you think, "Why would anyone want to do that?" Then you see his occupation is "artist-builder" and say, "No wonder." But in reading the article (photo above by SFGate.com), you see it […]

Project Blogger is well underway and I’ve been having a lot of fun talking Tisza Major-Posner through some tips and tricks to effective business blogging. I said I’d report back when there was substantial progress, so here’s what’s new:

Thanks to a wordpress plugin by Realivent (contact them about it) you can now get a Zestimate […]

   
Today’s Wiki Wednesday Feature: Refinancing Your Home
Know what I hate? I hate going through my mail and seeing an envelope bearing the words "URGENT LETTER" and "PLEASE EXPEDITE" — because rather than informing me that a wealthy distant relative has passed on and I have less than 24 hours to claim my inheritance, I […]

I came across a contest on BusinessWeek’s Hot Property blog that I found fascinating — it’s a contest for the smallest, coolest apartments in 2007.  Sponsored by Apartment Therapy and Design Within Reach, it really is quite amazing that so many people live in such small, albeit well-designed, confines.  My current residence boasts about 1000 […]

Overnight, we crossed another magic number threshold as the number of homes for sale on Zillow clicked past the 100,000 mark. We launched the ability to post homes for sale back in December and have watched this number slowly increase over time.   
We thought with this milestone, it would be a fun exercise to […]

Earth Day was the appropriate theme for the 39th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate, which is now live and posted at Trulia Blog. Pete Flint, founder and CEO of Trulia, listed 8 posts that carried Earth Day-themed titles with the winning post, the "Inconvenient Truth award," going to Dan Melson of Searchlight Crusade […]

Back in November 2000, the topic of lunar real estate for sale was covered by CNN, so it’s not an entirely new topic. While reading my favorite news site last night, I came across an article that picks up where the CNN article left off — essentially, that an entrepreneur from Nevada, Dennis Hope, has […]

I have a confession: I love my ranch house. And this flies right in the face of Slate’s recent article "The Ranch Home Anomaly: How America fell in and out of love with them" which is the second part of a three-part series about the evolution of homes by Witold Rybczynski. (The first article […]

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