Pittsburgh Homes Daily

Pittsburgh leaders unveiled a 3 year, $3 million marketing campaign to showcase the region’s attractions.  Ads with the slogan “Pittsburgh.  Imagine what you can do here.” will run in both local and national media online and off, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.  Previously, each county handled its own marketing, according to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.  Now, [...]

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Homethinking expanded its website today to include 1.5 million transactions and enhanced search technology that enables websites and blogs to display its map of properties.  You can read more about it at the Homethinking Blog.
For those interested, here are a few properties around Pittsburgh: 

Edit: My wordpress had a few problems with it so I had [...]

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Pittsburgh Homes Daily was named by Joel Burslem at future of real estate marketing as one of 5 Great Real Estate Technology Blogs that have recently come on his radar.  I’m honored and would like to welcome everyone that is visiting today!
I’m sure Joel is referring to Housing News, which I recently released for testing [...]

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Homeowners in Allegheny County whose property value is now lower than the value assessed by the county in the base year system are one step close to getting relief.  According to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, the Wilkinsburg couple received a favorable ruling in their lawsuit seeking to appeal their 2006 property taxes.
It’s unclear from the article the [...]

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The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is holding a renovation contest in honor of the National Trust’s conference in early November.
A Manchester brownfield thought to be the next Summerset at Frick Park, receives state grant for remediation.  26 homes planned.
Mount Lebanon is planning a new aquatic center.
Macy’s will replace Kaufmann’s later this week.

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Labor Day marks the return of kids to school (if they aren’t there already) and the start of the Steelers regular season (on Thursday).  Fall, with its cool breeze and colorful leaves, is almost upon us. 
It also welcomes a number of home tours around the Pittsburgh area:
Sunday, September 10th, 2006 – Annual Mexican War Streets House & Garden Tour
Saturday, Sept. 23 — [...]

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… if they were checking out the pictures of Pittsburgh from Craig Photography on Flickr.  For more great pictures of Pittsburgh, check out the Craig Photography blog.
Keep up the great photos!

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Last weekend, Joel Burslem asked whether anyone in the industry was willing to step up to the plate and create a site to track real estate news.  I looked into it and 10 hours later, it’s almost looking like a functioning website.  So:
This morning, I am pleased to announce that I am releasing Digg for real [...]

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A little bit of fun for the day:
 

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I stumbled across an interesting post by Jonathan Miller at Matrix thanks to Homethinking’s list of favorite posts from the week.  He noted an increase in media coverage regarding the housing market in August, confirmed through tracking the use of the term “housing” in a larger percentage of blog posts through a tool at Buzz Pulse, and then argues that media [...]

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