Could living on Jackass Hill make your home worth less money?
With so many people fascinated by real estate these days, “Freakonomics” author Stephen Dubner looks at real estate from a new angle.
(Starting today, Dubner’s Freakonomics blog is moving to The New York Times Web site. If you want to ask Dubner and his [...]
Searching for homes from above with Fizber’s “bird’s eye view”.
Miami Beach, Fla. August 6, 2007 — A Bird’s Eye View – Fizber’s brand new service based on Microsoft Live’s “bird’s eye view” feature – provides access to aerial images of houses taken by airplanes and satellites, saving time buyers would have spent driving around.
By integrating [...]
Is blogging the future of home sales? Entrepreneur Antony Fizber thinks so. Fizber has just launched his real estate for-sale-by-owner (FSBO) site, Fizber.com (http://www.fizber.com), and, in contrast to the masses of FSBO sites out there, Fizber.com provides its clients with blogs to help their home listings gain additional Internet exposure.
“Blogging will play a unique role [...]
Fizber.com gives you the power to search for homes across [...]
This piece of information will be of a great interest to information addicts and may shed light on when to refinance, or whether to sell : )
Use HomeGain.com, Cyberhomes.com, Realestateabc.com, Eppraisal.com or Fizber.com to get the value of your home. It’s FREE, with no obligation. These sites offer a valuable service by making information more [...]
It sounds like the setup for a dull economist’s joke. Who gets the better deal: the cautious economist who sells his house through a real estate agent, or his risk-taking colleague who finds a buyer on his own?
But the question — debated by two Northwestern University economists who chose different methods to sell their [...]
Google recently added new widgets to its Google Maps features. In a nutshell, using the “mapplets” function a house-hunting visitor to Google Maps could create a map that shows a pertinent selection of real estate listings available from Google Base – which is akin to a classified advertising site, and includes listings from many realty [...]
Forbes has created the top-ten fastest-growing suburbs list, here it is:
Lincoln, Calif
Buckeye, Ariz
Surprise, Ariz
Goodyear, Ariz
Plainfield, Ill
Beaumont, Calif
Frisco, Texas
Wylie, Texas
Avondale, Ariz
Woodstock, GA
The fastest-growing suburb in the country is Lincoln, Calif., just outside Sacramento. Its population jumped from 11,746 to 39,566, or an increase of [...]
According to Forbes, the riskiest U.S. housing markets are:
1) Miami
2) Orlando
3) Sacramento
4) San Fran
5) San Diego
6) Phoenix
7) KC
Cincy
9) Chicago
10) Denver
Forbes ranking of the country’s riskiest markets measures which of the 40 largest metros are most vulnerable to future shocks. They’ve done this by assessing which have the most strained lending conditions, and which [...]