Full disclosure: The Tim is employed by Redfin. After Google’s recent announcement that they were pulling their real estate map features, I was somewhat disappointed that we had lost a mapped view of unlisted foreclosures. Fortunately, Redfin just today released a sweet new feature that I’ve been helping plan: Full map and details on all…
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Beware the Emotional Homebuying Rollercoaster
Photo by Flickr user Justin Holzworth We spend most of our time here talking about the logical aspects of home buying—price to rent ratios, affordability, home price indices, etc.—but for most people the homebuying process is as much or more about emotions than it is about logic. Buying a home is a constant series of…
Mid-February Market Snapshot Map
Time for another sweet market status Tableau map. This time I’ve taken all the active listings as of February 17th and all the closed sales between January 1st 2010 and February 17th 2011, and slapped them all onto the same map. Crazy! Click any zip code’s circle to update all the pies and bars below…
Real Actual GOOD Listing Photos
I’ve posted in the past about the importance of having good listing photos, and our monthly “Real Actual Listing Photos” series regularly pokes fun of listing agents that aren’t willing to put in the effort to market their listings well online. Today I’m going to mix it up a bit. Instead of mocking lousy photos,…
Real Actual Listing Photos: Kitchens! Skies! Glowing Orbs!
Whoops, sorry about the radio silence yesterday. Busy day snuck right up on me. To make it up to you, here’s an extra-long collection of real actual listing photos. Enough excuses though, let’s get on with it. It’s time for another installment of Real Actual Listing Photos. Once a month (or so) I round up…