Archive for December, 2007

The Laguna Niguel Real Estate Blog hosted the 71st edition of the Carnival of Real Estate and you could almost feel the sun and warmth of the Laguna Beach area coming through, thanks to a great shot of surfers posing on a beach with their boards. (Is it really all surfing, all the time in Laguna Beach?) […]

My colleague, Sara Bonert, played off of yesterday’s RIS Media’s Nine Things Consumers Won’t Care About in the New Year by giving a Generation Y’s perspective of the issue on Active Rain. As a fellow Gen Y’er, I can relate to almost all of Sara’s thoughts on the subject of things consumers don’t care about. […]

Today’s Wiki Wednesday Feature: First Time Home Buyer Words of Wisdom

If you’re hoping to find the keys to your first home wrapped up for you this holiday, you may want to take a look at the article we chose for this week’s Wiki Wednesday feature. In “First Time Home Buyer Words of Wisdom,” VisaliaRealtor hands […]

Last week Zillow exhibited at the Triple Play convention in Atlantic City (PA, NJ and NY state Realtor show). The goal of exhibiting was to educate agents and brokers on how they could upload their listings to Zillow for free, and to answer any questions about Zillow that might come up. We did end up […]

John Wake of Arizona Real Estate Notebook cranked out a beauty this week for the 70th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate.  He gave awards to bloggers in three different categories:
1. Consumer and Investor-Oriented — The award goes to Christopher Smith of Real Estate Investing in the Real World for his post “Are you rebalancing your […]

Down in Florida, Coral Gables and Orlando were preparing for an all-out war over who gets to claim the nickname “The City Beautiful,” which seems like such a silly squabble, because beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But, truth be told, Coral Gables is probably much more beautiful than Orlando’s theme-parked environs. It just […]

Editor’s note: Theresa Morrow is the former Director of Content at Zillow. She traveled and lived in Uganda for nearly 9 months this past year, where her husband, Bill Ristow, was awarded a Knight Fellowship.
I just returned from Uganda where my husband and I lived for 9 months and here I am writing about real […]

Recently we released the 2007 Q3 Zillow Home Value Reports. Stan has already pointed out that the markets are cooling in his quarterly report summary. His analysis also shows that it’s “raining” on some markets a bit more than others. The map included in his post gives us a macro view of the metro areas. […]

Today’s Wiki Wednesday Feature: Choosing a Real Estate Agent
In 1997, when I was in the market to sell my home, how did I choose my real estate agent? Easy. I just watched who my next-door neighbor used a few months earlier. You see, my next-door neighbor (“NDN”) was an incredibly thorough, hard-working professional, and was […]

Seattleites are known to pooh-pooh the rain, but even die-hard locals — those born and raised here (not me) — were overwhelmed by the biblical nature of the rain in the past 48 hours. It is reported to be the second wettest day in Seattle’s history. To sum it up (most info from the Seattle […]