Note (6/9/08): An alert reader corrected us on the body of water we were pointing to. Thanks, phaser21!
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I’m not sure which recent real estate headline has me more transfixed: the real estate listing of Lenny Dykstra’s home for nearly $25 million or the dumping of 400,000 plastic balls into the Ivanhoe Reservoir.

Dykstra, the hard-sliding, [...]

Over the past three years, we’ve told a lot of potential partners that we are a patient bunch. We told them our goal was to become their most efficient marketing partner. We told them we weren’t competitors. Well, that patience has paid off. We are very excited to announce that [...]

With high gas prices and a housing market still trying to break out of these doldrums, people are trying to save money wherever they can. One technique for achieving financial freedom is keeping a monthly budget and watching your income and spending closely. The first big check that homeowners will write will be the mortgage [...]

(Photo courtesy Dayton Daily News)
You might not be at risk of foreclosure, but your neighbors might be, and their neighbors, and theirs, and so on. That is the story of ground zero for foreclosures in Dayton, Ohio, as reported in today’s Dayton Daily News: In a four-block area of Dayton, Ohio, 45 homes foreclosed and [...]

We can’t ignore it any longer: celebrities are taking the foreclosure hit, too. The latest celebrity is former heavyweight boxing champion Evander Holyfield. A legal notice that appeared in a local newspaper shows his Fayette County, GA estate is under foreclosure. The 104-room, 54,000-square-foot home worth an estimated $10 million and is to be auctioned [...]

The weeks leading up to and the weeks since we launched our Q1 Home Value Reports, I’ve found myself staring at the spreadsheets more than I’d like to admit. Whether walking a reporter through one of the local reports for their market or pulling some key stats from the national report to find trends, you’d [...]

 July will be the anniversary of the Zillow Polls feature, created by Software Design Engineer Jarret Falkner. Since that time, 1,116 polls have been submitted with 324,368 votes cast. The poll that has received the most votes is “How long will it take for the housing prices to begin appreciating again?” (click the link to [...]

Today, Zillow launched comprehensive, interactive mortgage rate charts with information on the most current mortgage rates being offered on Zillow Mortgage Marketplace. These aren’t your typical rate tables or charts — they are pretty unique for a number of reasons.
The rates are based on real quotes borrowers are receiving from lenders. They are not just [...]

Tough times call for drastic measures. A friend of mine in Bothell, WA is trying something new to build interest in his house. He is having an auction… sort of. The “Bothell Countdown” is the brainchild of Justin Wilcox and is something like a reverse auction where instead of the price [...]

It’s not news to anyone that in much of the country, the housing market has seen better days.  We’ve written on this blog a few times about some of the more creative things sellers are doing to help market their homes to potential buyers, adding various incentives along the way.  But this is a first. 
 A [...]

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