Room for Improvement

September 20, 2006

At Homethinking, there are two ways in which we try to rank Realtors: based on what they have done (through objectively monitoring real estate data) and secondly, what customers have said about the job they did. So what do home owners say about their Realtors? We decided to take a look based on the few [...]

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Linkage

September 15, 2006

More of my weekly favorites! United States housing bubble – Wikipedia – Thanks to keen observations by Matrix, I found this in-depth explanation of the housing bubble phenomenon that seems to be on everyone’s minds these days. Beginning the Home Buying Process – Rain City Guide – I can’t believe no one thought of this [...]

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Meet The Fizzbows

September 13, 2006

At Homethinking, we’re dedicated to helping people find the right Realtor to sell their home with. We think that a good Realtor can provide definite benefits for anyone thinking about selling their most valuable asset. But while we’re of the opinion that real estate professionals are well worth their commissions, not everyone agrees with us. [...]

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Another Week, Another Carnival!

September 11, 2006

The new Carnival of Real Estate is now up at the Real Estate Tomato. We’re not in there this week (we were busy with our relaunch), but there are some fantastic links that everyone should check out. Thanks Tomato, great pics for the top 12!

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Weekly Linkage

September 8, 2006

Since we’ve been busy with the relaunch of our site this week, I haven’t been able to keep up with my posting as much as I wanted to, so you’ll all just have to be satisfied with these wonderful links instead. Simplifying the Buying Process – (Rain City Guide) – A great list of seven [...]

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Homethinking Redux

September 7, 2006

Our new site went live this morning bringing maps closer to the forefront of navigation and showing the great progress we’ve made recently in expanding our coverage (we have over 1.5 million transactions now). One thing that we’ve been wanting to do for a while is make our mapping features more interactive and useful to [...]

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People are talking…

September 6, 2006

about this article in the New York Times, that is. The article has stirred up quite the hornet’s nest of activity in the real estate blogging community, and since everyone seems to be talking about it, now I’m gonna get my two cents in. Getting straight to the point, I definitely don’t think that internet [...]

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Before the Fall

September 5, 2006

David Lerah, chief economist of the National Association of Realtors, is usually one of the more optimistic forecasters of residential real estate. “I’m hoping for prices to drop” and “sellers are not bringing prices down fast enough” are two statements that home owners would prefer weren’t uttered by Lerah. But those are two quotes from [...]

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Carnival of Real Estate #8

September 5, 2006

The newest carnival of real estate is up at Nubricks.com. There are a lot of good articles in there, so go ahead and check them out! -Tony Floriani

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Weekly Linkage

September 1, 2006

This is our first weekly linkage to some articles that I found particularly interesting. Enjoy! The last seven days in Real Estate – (Rain City Guide) People Have To Live Somewhere – (The Real Estate Bloggers) Slow News Cycle = More Housing Coverage = More Confusion – (Matrix) The Natural Cycle of a Real Estate [...]

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