Rain City Guide

Even before we were done building out the InsideBu website, I recommended that Madison start doing some research. And I started by advising him to fill up his sidepanel with links. My logic is that the process of building up a blogroll forces a new blogger to read other bloggers. [...]

Last year around this time, I published a series of interviews with the real estate bloggers that most influenced me of which I was really proud because I learned a lot and it felt like it helped bring the real estate blogging community together in a new way… This year, I’d like to continue [...]

I got this email the other day, and with the authors permission, I thought other agents looking to start a blog might find my responses helpful.
I am an agent with Coldwell Banker in Los Angeles and I attended your bloginar in July. I have really been researching (reading The Corporate Blog Book by Debbie [...]

When Susan Ryan posted Just Say No To Bubble Talk, where she states “There is no real estate bubble and never will be” (emphasis mine), she probably wasn’t thinking of the traffic and links she would bring in through such blatant link baiting. But in one crazy statement, she swung for the fences and [...]

At around 8pm, I woke up from a late afternoon nap to see that Ardell still had over 30 posts to write and I got a worried… So I took a Newcastle out of the fridge and started writing. I figured that should it become necessary, I could pass along a few extra posts to [...]

Today’s theme? Fun with real estate!

Marlow provides a list of entertaining stories about hijacks (along with some good-natured teasing about the high PubSub ranking or her PI blog!)…
Glenn thinks that we should change the title of Seattle Eric’s post because we’re not being fair. “The original post should be corrected out of fairness to [...]

Sam Zell’s favorite markets
Seattle is one of Sam’s favorite markets for commercial real estate
(tags: realestate commercial)

Plan would legalize garage apartments in southeast Seattle
More density in Seattle?
(tags: seattle urban development realestate)

Sink your teeth into vast pool of real estate data
More on PropertyShark. I wasn’t too impressed because I know where to find all the data on [...]

Gay Retirement Communities Are Growing in Popularity
Hadn’t ever thought of this niche before…
(tags: realestate retirement communities gay lesbian housing)

Ways to avoid losing home to foreclosure
Never hurts to know your options
(tags: realestate foreclosure housing)

New product allows bets on home prices
Convinced homes prices are going to drop? Now you can put some money down on this option…
(tags: [...]

Happy birthday, Calvinball!
Business lesson from Bill Watterson
(tags: comics realestate business advice)

Firm fights to sell moon real estate
great views, quiet neighborhood and no pressure!
(tags: fun realestate)

Housing market downturn expected: Region’s outlook better than rest of the country
Bark bigger than bite: “The escalation of home prices in King County might drop back to single-digit increases next year, [...]

Zillow’s Infrastructure
An educated guess at Zillow’s backend
(tags: zillow realestate search database)

Proposed tax hike hits home sale funds - Change to excise tax would allow districts, cities to assess fees in lieu of what’s collected for new construction
(tags: realestate taxes news)

Major complex planned in Renton
Harvest Partners is planning to unveil plans for a shopping-theater complex roughly [...]