Today’s Wiki Wednesday Feature: Selling Your Home in a Slumping Market
Thinking about selling your home? Well, with home prices and home sales continuing to dip across most of the country, it’d be no surprise if you’re worried about wading into this uncertain market. Who wouldn’t be?
But if you’re set on selling, there are certain things […]

Whoa, whoa, whoa. Word out of Boston — the Boston Herald, to be exact — is that Red Sox owner John Henry wants to tear down a mansion he just purchased in Brookline for $16 million. This guy paid $16 million dollars for a 13,000-square foot, 7 bed, 11 bathroom home and he’s going to […]

It’s clear that people are shifting to online resources when looking for local information. Case in point: when Google unveiled universal search earlier this year, which combined results from multiple vertical products for any search from google, it included local results in the short list of five it initially integrated.
But local search goes beyond […]

Lots of addresses fill up the “most viewed homes per day” table that Zillow data analysts compile. It’s anyone’s guess as to why these homes attract clicks. Maybe it’s the home of a celebrity. Maybe it’s a fabulous home for sale. Or, maybe it’s a home that was turned into a brothel. No, really.
Last week, this home in New Rochelle […]

I want to extend a huge congratulations to Tisza Major-Posner for landing her 1st listing as a real estate agent!! Tisza was my apprentice for Project Blogger and I saw her through the process of building Route66 Living. I’ve enjoyed keeping in touch with her via AOL instant messenger and the occasional e-mail since the […]

Very good! Muy bueno! Muito bom! Apologies if we botched our praises in English, Spanish, and Portuguese, respectively, for the 60th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate, which is now is live at For Sale by Locals. But, For Sale by Locals delved into uncharted waters for the Carnival, choosing three winners in three different languages, […]

Oh, to be the patron saint of real estate! Saint Joseph – yes, that Joseph — has an enormous load to bear these days, especially in the housing slump we find ourselves. Saint Christopher, the patron saint of travellers, gets to sit on car dashboards and hang as a medal around people’s necks. Saint Francis […]

In compiling the top viewed homes of the week, it was hard not to notice how spread out this group is. From Vancouver, Washington all the way down to Stratford, CT and in between, I think this might be the farthest apart our homes have been since we started to do this weekly feature. […]

Zillow announced today that we raised a new round of venture capital. Our Series C financing is a $30 million round led by Legg Mason Capital Management, and all three previous institutional investors are also participating — Benchmark Capital, Technology Crossover Ventures and PAR Capital. We are honored to have received backing from such esteemed […]

The New York Times has announced that it is opening up the content that previously required paid subscription to view and making it available for free. Why is the Times making this move? Because while they were making $10 million a year from paid subscriptions, Vivian L. Schiller, senior vice president and general manager of […]

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