Google has taken the beta label off a project that is significantly younger than Gmail, which remains in beta. Google Website Optimizer has been available to AdWords customers for the past year, but now the company is making it available to anyone who wants to test out different web site layouts.
Basically, the tool lets you […]

Considering how bad the market is supposed to be, I sure am busy. I haven’t had time to write even though I’ve been trying to keep up with the news.
Did you hear that LendingTree has told its customers that former employees helped unauthorized mortgage lenders hack into its systems and steal customer […]

A day doesn’t go by when I’m not contacted by a real estate agent or a new blogger who wants to exchange links. I even get requests to add a link by webmasters of sites that have nothing to do with real estate. Knowing how Google views such reciprocal links, I’m tempted to […]

My favorite toy on the Coldwell Banker website is the Home Price Comparison Index.
Just enter the market value of your current home and the location, along with 3 other comparable cities, and you can see what your home would sell for in those other places.
For instance, if you live in a $1M home in Seattle, […]

HousingPANIC has come up with a list of nominees for most f*cked up builder, lender, real estate agent and others working in the monumental Real Estate Industrial Complex.
Sadly, I was not nominated in any of the categories.
But it’s not too late! I’ve never won anything in my life. Please […]

I wrote an article for this months issue of MAKE Magazine (http://www.makezine.com/) about folk artist Martin Sanchez and the environment he created out of found objects (including a beer-bottle chapel) and I’m going to be featuring some of those photos with commentary this Thursday 4/10 at See Sound Lounge on 1st and Blanchard in Belltown […]

It turns out that death by blogging is greatly exaggerated, but New York Times writer Matt Richtel is concerned that bloggers are often paid based on how much they write and whether anyone reads them. He likens this to a “sales commission,” a comparison that evokes Alec Baldwin chalking “ALWAYS BE CLOSING” onto a blackboard […]

Apartment complex uses dancers in window to sell units

Our MLS does not fool around.
Pursuant to the rules, NWMLS must publish Notices of Disciplinary Action taken against its members. Windermere, John L. Scott, Keller Williams, ReMax and other assorted companies were fined last month for behavior ranging from visiting a “By Appointment” listing without calling first (fine: $2,500), marketing a listing without inputting […]

This happened late last year, but I thought it was worth noting. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, which hosts a innovative section of professional reporters and readers blogs (including my Seattle Real Estate Professsionals blog), suspended a blogger for being a little too generous with quotes from another source.
Blog Suspended