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Calculated Risk: Sad News: Tanta Passes Away

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Compiled by the folks at GlobalEdge, a list of the top 100 bloggers and real estate journalists from around the world makes up The GlobalEdge Top 100.
Their methodology, from their site:
This list was compiled by searching Google’s top 100 results using terms like “real estate blog” and “property news”. In this respect it is [...]

by tropicdiver
Redfin’s new release is breaking new barriers, literally - they are adding bank-owned foreclosures and for-sale-by-owner inventory along side alongside their MLS listings (more from 4realz.net). The first, as far as I know, of any major brokerage to do so.
Definitely a smart move for the company which has long been out front pushing for [...]

There are some really great real estate events coming up in the next couple of weeks, so I thought I’d highlight them for FOREM readers. If you want to stay on top of all that’s going on, make sure you subscribe to the Real Estate Group Calendar on Upcoming.org

REtech South - Matt Fagioli and Brad [...]

Got this question in an email today. I’m not sure of the answer, so I thought I’d throw it open to any FOREM readers doing a little weekend reading.
Dear Joel:
I know you’ll be able to help me.  I live in a PUD called villas…much like a condo complex except we go by the state [...]

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I really dig this. New York based broker Halstead Property partnered with New York Magazine to provide its online reviews to the real estate company’s web site.
Check out their neighborhood profiles for Soho or Greenwich Village, for example. Great information that’s very valuable to the consumer. I think this brilliant move for [...]

Redfin on the Today Show tomorrow.
Glenn Kelmann will be on with Al Roker Friday morning at 7:40am sharp.
He’ll be giving a forecast on the housing market and sharing some tips to help move a house in slow market. The angle? They’ve developed these tips according to “scientific analysis” of market conditions. The full report is [...]

by Iguana Jo
News that Vast.com has launched a new real estate search engine (see Inman’s Search platform launches with 2.4 million homes) isn’t nearly as interesting as who’s launching it.
Ben Clark is leading the company’s real estate business unit and its foray into this industry. And if that name sounds familiar, it should. From Inman [...]

Here’s a interesting story. A real estate agent in Orlando creates a video full of scantily clad female models, and asks “can sex sell real estate?”.
So, the first question is; “does sex actually help you sell in real estate?”
Now we get to the fun part - full of the same type of drama that [...]

From this Month’s Wired Magazine - Q&A: Zillow’s Rich Barton on Real Estate, AI, and Basement Floods - more on Zillow’s upcoming foray into mortgages.
If you take Zillow’s principles — power to the people, transparency in marketplaces, rich information — and apply them to mortgages, there’s an obvious opportunity. So we’re working on that. We [...]