Curbed just announced their Broker Boys and Babes of 2008 for the Los Angeles area. Does Seattle have any cute Broker Boys and Babes? Indeed we do.
Just a random list of agents from my little office on Capitol Hill….
Alanna Ireland
Shawn Filer
Jamee Barber
Pat Ursino
Jennifer Braun
John Rutledge
If you’d […]

Integrity Bank, based in Georgia, became the 10th bank this year to be taken in to receivership by the FDIC. A small bank, with about $1 billion in managed assets, Integrity is the latest victim of the mortgage market meltdown and credit crisis after a series of aggressive bets on loans in the Atlanta […]

Homes listed for sale across Canada set all-time record in July
The number of new listings of existing houses for sale surpassed 80,000 for the first time ever in July and sales activity fell, making the market more favourable for buyers and less so for sellers, the Canadian Real Estate Association said today.
The nationwide Multiple […]

We’ve been experimenting with messages in various locations across Redfin.com. Recently, we placed an announcement in a message box at the top of our map page. Once the box is closed, it disappears until we run a new message.
When we released the latest version of Redfin.com, we ran our first message this space announcing our […]

We’ve been experimenting with messages in various locations across Redfin.com. Recently, we placed an announcement in a message box at the top of our map page. Once the box is closed, it disappears until we run a new message.
When we released the latest version of Redfin.com, we ran our first message this space announcing our […]

You might assume that with home purchases and new mortgage volume off by 30 percent or more in many markets during the past year, loan fraud would be down as well.
Wrong. A bench mark quarterly study released Aug. 25 by the mortgage industry’s principal compiler of fraud reports, the Mortgage Asset Research Institute, found that […]

If the real estate market is in a meltdown, California real estate investors haven’t gotten the memo. In fact, residential real estate investment activity has grown over 65% in the past year alone.
According to an analysis of current California real estate statistics, residential real estate investors are the most rapidly growing population of […]

MANHATTAN””A former real estate executive at Max Capital Management Corporation has been charged with stealing more than $17 million from a panoply of banks and individuals.
The defendant, Adam Hochfelder, 37, of East 96th St., New York, has been indicted on six counts of first degree grand larceny, two counts of second degree grand larceny, 24 […]

MONROE, Conn. - Monroe police have arrested a real estate agent accused of stealing change from a home she’s trying to sell. Police say there are complaints that she stole food and change from other homes.
Police have charged 29-year-old Holli Tapley of Derby with one count of sixth-degree larceny. Police say a 14-year-old girl […]

With gas prices high, bicycles flying out of stores and a buyers’ market for houses, a handful of real estate agents around the country are touting the two-wheeled appeal of their listings.
Some even show houses exclusively by bike, wheeling through the neighborhood with potential buyers to show off bike lanes and bike-focused businesses and repair […]