January 01, 2008
100 things we didn't know last year
…and the Nominees for Sexiest Realtor in San Francisco are…
Top 10 Worst Realtor Photos. (From Presurfer)
Have you ever stopped to think of what would happen to Your House Without You? In The World Without You, Weisman explains how our massive infrastructure would collapse and finally vanish without human presence; what of our everyday stuff may become immortalized as fossils; how copper pipes and wiring would be crushed into mere seams of reddish rock; why some of our earliest buildings might be the last architecture left; and how plastic, bronze sculpture, radio waves, and some man-made molecules may be our most lasting gifts to the universe
A new three-bedroom house must have at least 38 plug sockets - One of the 100 things we didn't know last year
The US sub-prime crisis in graphics
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December 12, 2007
Buying your first home
An interesting thread on Ask Mefi: What is the single most valuable piece of advice you received when you were in the process of buying your first home?
Borat Buying a House (YT)
A New Orleans lawyer sought an FHA loan for a client. He was told the loan would be granted if he could prove satisfactory title to a parcel of property being offered as collateral
Also: Count me in
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December 05, 2007
Can Sex Sell Real Estate?
Broker Shaun McLane of Orlando posted a racy video on his real estate blog titled Can Sex Sell Real Estate? (NSFW) The next day his was fired for not removing the video. He is now in the process of opening his own office
A gallery of Celebrity Foreclosures at The Luxist
Bird’s eye view of the Archie Bunker's House on 8970 Cooper Ave Flushing NY, and some other Famous TV Homes
If you search for Detroit houses for less than $5,000, you'll have almost 1,000 homes to choose from. Buy Houses in Detroit For $250, Monthly Payment = $1
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November 01, 2007
How To Lie With Statistics
Isolated Building Studies: Revealing Meaning Through Recontextualization. In each photograph, one building is literally the center of attention; however, the absence of buildings at the margins is as critical to each image as the featured structure. (From Punio)
Report on Rotten Neighbors
Foe sale: 128 Day Ave. The Smallest House In Toronto - 300 sq ft - $179,000
Haunted Houses…What Should An Agent Disclose?
US Housing prices since 1987 (and debunking of its methodology)
(Cartoon above from Clay Bennett)
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September 23, 2007
Leave Realtors Alone!
(From Single Point Realty. For the rest of the other parodies scroll down)
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September 21, 2007
Missile Base on eBay
Missile Base for sale. The Missile Base consists of 57 acres of real estate. The center secured portion of the property is protected by the original barbed-wire-topped chainlink fence. There is a paved road leading into the property with dual entry gates. Location: 1 1/2 hrs from Spokane, 4 hrs. from Seattle, 5 hrs. from Portland. Photos. Previously posted: 20th Century Castles
Also, Converted water tower, and Own a piece of Uranus
Your House - Artist Olafur Eliasson created this piece, a laser-cut negative space rendering of his house in 85:1 scale. (From Eric Gjerde)
How high are the fees when you buy a house? Britain and Denmark are cheap, costing under 5% of the purchase price; Korea, Italy, France, Greece, Spain and Germany are expensive at 12% – 22%
Closing Escrow - The trailer
St. Joseph, the hardest-working saint in real estate
Happy Yom Kippur, y'all…
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August 03, 2007
Diary of a Real Estate Rookie
Would You Buy A Condo From This Woman?
Formula For Calculating the Profitability of a Rental Property
How to handle real estate agents
Ted Truitt, Real Estate Ethics Guru
Newbie home flipper and broker Alison Rogers talks about bad agents, selling schemes and why it's impossible to predict the housing market. Diary of a Real Estate Rookie
Fake ads for sex haunting a Realtor
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July 05, 2007
Mid-Century Zen Craftsman
For sale: Mid-Century Zen Craftsman in Encino, California. Celebrity Compound Moments From Mulholland - 4+7 with 2 separate guest structures. Only $4,750,000. Call Jory Burton - 310.766.5679. (From a LAT story)
Also, Prince Bandar bin Sultan is selling his Hala Ranch in Aspen, $135MM. The initial listing video
How To Sell More Homes: Realtors attend worship service to pray for better market
Re-post: A History of Home Values
The Spider Web Chalet is a uniquely built structure also known as the The Hang Nga Tree House Hotel, Hang Nga Guesthouse & Art Gallery, and The Crazy House (depending upon who you ask)
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June 19, 2007
Real Estate for the Future
Philip Greenspun on the inefficiency of the NYC real estate market
Experience the majestic serenity of full Ocean View Property for generations to come…Lo'ihi Development Co. is to start selling lots in Hawaii with spectacular 360º ocean views for the introductory price of $36.05. The catch: these prime real estates are still submerged more than 3,000 feet below sea level and won't surface for another 10,000 years. That is, if the submerged volcanic island will actually break the surface. (From Pruned). More about the Man Who Sells the Moon
Constructing the top floors of a 57-story tower
Housing maps, a mashup application which combines Google maps with craigslist housing data to show where houses are for sale
Trulia Hindsight is an animated map of homes in the United States from Trulia. The animations use the year the properties were built to show the growth of streets, neighborhoods and cities in the US over time
Breaking news tonight! The Moon is occulting Venus as reflected in these 18 national flags
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May 24, 2007
Modern Tree Houses
Bird's Eye view of Michael Jordan's Home
50 Cent's 52-Room Mansion for sale. “A very tasteful home, except the stripper poles”
Battling the monster on the hill - Duane Hagadone's Palm Desert dream castle
Breaking news: Would-be home buyers find homeowner's dead body in bed. Also, Visit To Google Earth Reveals House Is On Fire
Knoxville, Tennessee - Then and Now
Sex advice from real estate agents. (Found on Sellsius Deep Throats Wanted post)
Flying Mobile homes by Peter Garfield
How a Cornfield Became a Subdivision
Real estate one, one of the winners of b3ta’s Phallic Logo Awards
Modern Tree House Massage Studio
For sale: Scenes from a bubble - an amorality play in four acts
I am gone “fishing” for a few weeks. This post has been pre-blogged for your enjoyment
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April 15, 2007
Real Estate Roller Coaster
Will Ferrell in "The Landlord"
Landlord's nightmare in Tacoma. A house was stripped nearly to the studs after a bogus online classified ad invited people to come in and take what they wanted
US Home prices adjusted for inflation plotted as a roller coaster
Real Estate Confidential, the TV Show - The Trailer
What should you pay for a house? (Answer: It depends on rents and interest rates)
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March 28, 2007
Not paying attention to small details
Commercial Real Estate in Russia
Ozark Mountain Railcar is the leading brokerage firm in North America for the sale of railroad equipment and railroad real estate. See their inventory of railroad cars. (From Information Junk)
25-year mortgage for a man aged 102
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March 09, 2007
La Familia
Buy a Church Euro 385,000
The Playboy Town House: Posh Plans For Exciting Urban Living
Buy a Remote Property in Alaska’a wilderness. (From Things Magazine)
A NY building totally covered with graffiti
The famous Richardson "Spite House" at Lexington Avenue and 43rd Street in NYC extended north 104 feet on the avenue, but was only five feet wide . Also, a very Narrow House in Brazil
Map of The City of Malton
What is a fair real estate commission? We don’t know, but here’s how some other countries break it down. Real Estate Commissions Around The World
Also, Making a killing in real estate (Real killing. From The Condo Metropolis Blog)
50 Largest U.S. Apartment Owners (as of January 1, 2006)
Many real estate videos at the new GooTube. (From Curbed SF)
Forbes’ 2007 Most Expensive Homes in the world and the Most affordable housing markets in the US
No discussion of real estate and mortgages could be complete without the musical stylings of the inimitable Señor mortgage, who will help you "Get a Leg Up on the Pile and Refinance Your Dreams!" (Thank you, Marilyn)
My friends Fabian Calvo & Rob Castro’s new program The Foundation Factor, the only home-based real estate business program created especially for the Hispanic community
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February 03, 2007
Moon for Sale
Super agent John McMonigle from Newport Beach sells some of the most luxurious homes in the country. For example, how about 4627 Brighton Drive in Corona Del Mar?
Sounds Like A Nice Place To Live: Towns with interesting names
Entire French town for sale. Price: $326,619
Extraterrestrial real estate is either land on other planets or natural satellites or parts of space that is sold either through organizations or by individuals. Such sales are not legally recognised by any nation, but some nations and NASA have recognised the need for regulation of property rights in space due to the absence of such law
A linky post by Miss Cellania about rentals and landlords
A Harris poll ranked real estate brokers at the very bottom of a list of 23 professions. Little wonder then that they are trying to clean up their image. NYT’s Agents of Angst
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January 15, 2007
Too Many Realtors
Welcome to Baltimore, let me help you with your luggage. A Note to Renters from the Evil Landlord
How Diffent People See Your House
Jack a Crib. Learn to get into real estate "Hood Style" with No Money Down. (From Marlow Harris)
A Low Impact Woodland Home. The house was built with maximum regard for the environment and by reciprocation gives us a unique opportunity to live close to nature
Unbelievably bad real estate photos
Whether the housing market is stabilizing or not, it seems pretty clear that there are still too many people in the U.S. trying to make a living selling houses
St. Louis man finds his home demolished
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