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I don’t usually post this sort of thing, but Zsa Zsa’s home is so exquisite that I could not resist.
Every year on November 22nd, I like to pause and reflect about the body of work from writer and rabble-rouser Jack London. Jack London, who died today in 1916, was most famous for writing “The Call of the Wild”, but he was also a brilliant union organizer and author of “The Scab”. What is a [...]
A few weeks ago, prior to the announcement of another $14M cash infusion, Redfins Glenn Kelman said If Redfin has to pay a media site for traffic, we will not be able to make real estate better. Just a few months before that, he spoke again about not buying advertising: The only ads well pay [...]
An episode of HGTV’s “House Hunters” featuring Seattle resident Valerie Sloane and her friend Mary Jo Reynolds will air Monday, November 7th at 11pm, and again later at 2am. I played the real estate broker. It was a stretch, but I made it work. You’ve probably seen House Hunters before where the premise of the [...]
The law offices of Steven J. Baum, a firm that specializes in foreclosures and is under investigation by the NY Attorney Generals office, had a Halloween party and the New York Times has published a series of photos that shows the costumes: people dressed as the new homeless. Wow. What the Costumes Reveal in New [...]
Earlier this week, Redfin announced a new feature on their website, the Scouting Report, where one can look up any agent by name, including Redfin agents, partner agents, and agents who are not associated with Redfin, and see their home sales and listings back to 2008. Though this sounds like a good thing, Redfin routinely [...]
Coldwell Banker recently asked some kids what they thought “real estate” meant to them.
A real estate agent supervising a foreclosure observed the owners tying up their autistic child to the house so he wouldn’t run away. The child spent 24 lost in the wilderness and he was lured out by the music of his favorite musician, Ozzy Osborne. I’m sure you could find other people declaring their lives [...]
Turn Here, the video company founded by Inman News‘ Brad Inman, created a series of neighborhood videos that captured the essence of neighborhoods and cities across the U.S. One of my favorites was this video of my neighborhood, the Broadway area of Capitol Hill in Seattle, starring Brian Fairbrother, general manager of Espresso Vivace on [...]