Pittsburgh Homes Daily

Two weeks ago, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette published a list of holiday house tours around Pittsburgh.  Since there are three house tours set for Saturday, Dec. 2, 2006, consider this your reminder to start planning them into your weekend.  Also worthy of mention this weekend is the International Cookie Festival in Lawrenceville.

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The latest news in the redevelopment of the Fifth-Forbes area by Millcraft Industries is that there will be no condos, according to a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article.  Instead, the developers are planning to construct apartments to capture historic tax credits.
I’m surprised that they can’t make the economics work for a downtown development with condominiums.  There seem to [...]

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The local MLS for Pittsburgh / Western Pennsylvania has decided that as of Dec. 15th, only the websites of principal brokers may display information available from the West Penn Multi-List’s Internet Data Exchange (IDX).  Real estate agents are permitted to link to their broker’s website but may not frame the data or otherwise display their contact information.
What this means for [...]

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Photo by eye of einstein.  License: Creative Commons Attribution 2.0

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I stumbled across a Realty Times article whose message can pretty simply be summarized as: Don’t steal other people’s content online.  It’s against the law and you could get in trouble. 
I agree with the central message, and I’d love to have a discussion of some of the statements in the article, but I feel it [...]

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Two interesting news stories this morning in the real estate world.
First: ListingDomains.com has released a press release that they are experiencing a 10% a month increase in the number of single property websites ordered by real estate agents.
Second: CityCribs has announced a marketing partnership with Help-U-Sell, where Help-U-Sell listed properties will be found on CityCribs.
I guess [...]

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A very cool video of art created from a single sheet of paper that is now featured on Yahoo:
 
 

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Check the schedule of activities in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette or the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

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The Dallas Morning News ran an article today about the increasing popularity of real estate blogs among real estate agents.
Although there are a number of statements in the article that I find questionable, it is nice to see the mainstream media recognize a few bloggers for their efforts online.
I’m not going to nit pick through [...]

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If a llama charged me while I was showing a home, I hope I’d be laughing when I got back to my car safely.  But when I was later attacked by a horse, I’d probably start looking for a new profession.
 
Photo by dcJohn.  License: Creative Commons Attribution 2.0. 

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