From the Associated Press:
“The Justice Department gave a boost Tuesday to online real estate brokers “” and potentially their clients “” by forcing new industry policies that give Internet-based agents access to home listings they were previously denied.”
Supposedly, this was done to make the playing field level for smaller and/or online real estate brokerages. […]

Authorities said today they found two handguns with the badly decomposed bodies of five family members who were discovered in a home in a wealthy, gated Orange County community over the holiday weekend.
The house where the family was found was worth about $1.7 million, according to the real estate Web site Zillow.com.

It appears that Zillow’s […]

By all appearances, Aaron Wider is the chief executive of a flourishing mortgage bank in Garden City, issuing more than $33 million in home loans to buyers across Nassau and Suffolk counties over the past four years.
A closer look at his lending practices, however, reveals that many of these loans relied on faulty appraisals and […]

I was able to attend a presentation yesterday by Dr. Stan Humphries, VP of data & Analytics at Zillow, and the man behind their housing data. He gave a speech to the Real Estate Roundtable at the Rainier Club where he discussed US housing data in freakish detail.
Though this kind of information is not […]

It’s free””no personal info or agent required It’s comprehensive””listings, comps, stats, trends & advice It’s easy””so you can make sense of it all

Why was it necessary to put “no….agent required”?

By far the best explanation I’ve heard of the Housing Mortage/Credit Crisis is — improbably — a podcast from the motherlode of story-telling on NPR, This American Life. This podcast is a bit different from their usual slice-o-life stories in that they try to explain something extremely complex and abstract — but in personal stories. […]

Scary real estate marketing tactics get plenty of attention in an election year.

I had written before about the Home Price Comparison Index compiled by Coldwell Banker Real Estate that allows one to approximate how much your home might cost in different areas around the U.S.
For instance, here in Seattle, $800K-900K might buy you a 100-year old house in a nice in-city neighborhood with 1800 […]

Being a Tiki fan, Aloha-aficionado and keeper of the flame at Seattle Tiki, I was excited to see Trader Vic Bergeron’s first home on the market. The listing notes that 965 Mendocino Avenue has been a landmark and focal point of North Berkeley since it was built in 1925. Trader Vic Bergeron and his […]

I think all of us have a story like this.
The House That Got Away by Sarah Jio and Gabi Campanario