Hat tip to Susie for sending this in - smaller is getting more popular! The city's first apartment building with mini units is ready for Big Apple tenants. City officials joined Monadnock Development and the Lower East Side People's Mutual Housing Association to...
A brief 10-hour Zillow conference kicked off yesterday. In his opening remarks, Spencer was his usual effervescent self, and assured the crowd that the Zillow dominance is bigger and better than ever: Unique users of Zillow and Trulia were up to 171 million in May....
Hippie communes from the 1960s are coming back in many alternate forms, and there are already several options. The U-T featured Outsite, an AirBnb-type of company but for workers who desire temporary living arrangements in exotic areas - including a block from the...
Here's the follow-up to the Glendale story that started here: https://www.bubbleinfo.com/2016/08/28/realtor-video-tour-2/ As you can see in the video, the house was all original from 1941. There was a deliberate attempt by the trustee and agent to price-in the...
Trying to get back into video production after a three-week layoff:
How much longer before we see cannabis in our listings? A horse in a kitchen. A dog posing in the bathtub. A blowup doll in clothes sprawled out on the floor. A basement S&M dungeon. Nude photographs decorating walls, and stripper poles. Estately has seen a lot in...
The building industry is selling more new homes, but their focus is on the higher-end markets, and not much is happening for the middle class. KPBS found a guy to whine about it on camera; but it's a free market, and rich people are winning. It's not going to change...
Doesn't it seem like there's a new real estate app that's going to slay the real estate industry every week or two? Will they spend millions to advertise? They need to make it lucrative for listing agents to bring their listings....
The new broker-owned website envisioned to be the answer to all of the industry's problems with listing distribution has debuted their website: http://www.upstreamre.com/ It is probably a great idea to streamline a uniform listing process. But nowhere is it discussed...
The lightweight reporters who nibble around the edges don't ever get to the point. It doesn't matter who wins the election, rich people are taking over. Millennials and others will have to find a way to buy a home, or be at the mercy of rich people for the rest of...
