real estate

Cheating, Stealing, Gouging Customers: The World Of London Real Estate

Cheating, Stealing, Gouging Customers: The World Of London Real Estate

Wow. The latest entry in the Beeb’s Whistleblower series of undercover reporting has blown the real estate market in London wide open.

Free Business Plan: Apartment Bloodhound

Free Business Plan: Apartment Bloodhound

s an idea for a business for you can start for little money.

Zillow.com: Free Real Estate Estimates

Zillow.com: Free Real Estate Estimates

We’re a little behind the curve on Zillow.com, which aims to do for real-estate shopping and home buying what Expedia did for booking flights. Using an aggregate of data including tax records, sales histories, and other home prices in the region, the site generates legally ambiguous ‘Zestimates’ from just an address—think Google Maps with price tags.

American Houses, Blouses Trend Together

American Houses, Blouses Trend Together

This is far from science—and the author of this chart doesn’t claim that it is—but you might find it a bit amusing to see this correlation between American’s median home size and our rates of obesity. Both are blossoming.

Times Profiles FSBOMadison.com

Times Profiles FSBOMadison.com

We’ve never been graced with enough foresight or luck to actually purchase a home. Since we recently discovered that we would be forced to find a new apartment over a year before our lease was scheduled to be up, we have been trying to learn the ins-and-outs of home ownership. Our first lesson? We can’t afford to purchase a home in New York. So that was easy.