Archive for June, 2008

Here’s an interesting tactic that Chris Hoyer, an attorney who advises consumers about foreclosure on Consumer Warning Network, is suggesting: tell the banks to “produce the note.”
What this means is that if you are in foreclosure trouble, and the bank or lending company threatens to take your home, you can buy some time and possibly […]

This week’s 96th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is posted at Renthusiast! There were 3 awards given, each of them named after a famous carnival in the real world — the Brazilian Feel Good Award, the Venetian Masquerade Award , and the New Orleans Resilience Award. Head on over to see this weeks’ […]

Add two more to the growing list of celebrity foreclosures: Suspended Dallas Cowboys’ star ‘Pacman’ Jones and former NBA star Vin Baker, who had a promising career until alcoholism derailed it, are the latest celebs in risk of foreclosure, according to EURweb.com.

Over the next few weeks, you may start to see some for-sale listings that look a little different than what usually turns up in our typical search results. They’re called “featured listings,” and it’s an advertising program we’re beginning with a number of our newspaper partners and the real estate professionals who buy classified listings […]

Summer is the busiest season for real estate. So it’s fitting that as of today we have reached 2.5 million listings on Zillow.com. We launched our Listings Feed program back in November, and are thrilled at how popular it has become in just seven short months. In fact, this spring has been […]

Honing in on what you like or don’t like for home remodeling ideas can take a tremendous amount of time, energy, and magazine tear-outs. But, just by process of elimination, you can narrow down your likes and dislikes. We have just the home improvement tool to help you: Dueling Digs. Just point ‘n click.
Kitchens:
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The chickens have come home to roost for some of those responsible for mortgage fraud and mortgage securities fraud that have contributed to the current mortgage crisis. Operation Malicious Mortgage has nabbed more than 400 individuals involved in real estate deals in just three and a half months, the FBI announced today. This is the […]

We just re-launched vastly improved profile pages for our registered visitors. It is now easy to see just about everything you have has been up to on Zillow. All the stuff you do on the site is linked from your profile (except, of course, anything about your home if you’ve claimed it. Home claims are […]

Unless you’ve been living in a cave or refuse to engage in real estate headlines of late, it’s common knowledge that many local real estate markets are down around the country. So, I thought I’d dig into the data of our Q1 Home Value Reports to find which real estate markets suffered the biggest percentage […]

Psychic Uri Geller could bend spoons and other objects with his powerful mind and he tried to bend the terms of an eBay real estate deal, involving Elvis Presley’s first home, ruled U.S. District Judge Jon McCalla. McCalla said, “… the eBay auction was more of an advertising vehicle than a binding sale and, even […]