Pittsburgh Homes Daily

My feed reader picked up a news story about a new real estate website focused (for now) on the Albany, NY market called 4anagent.com that launched Nov. 10, 2006.  I haven’t registered for the website (both agents and customers must register), but based on the news story in the Business Review, it appears to allow sellers [...]

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With the time for selection of Pittsburgh’s casino license drawing closer and the opening of the first casino in the state near Wilkes-Barre, there is a meeting tonight for residents of the Hill District to express their thoughts on the plans for the Isle of Capri casino.  The meeting is scheduled for 6 PM.  Details can be found [...]

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It’s November 15th and that means that it is time to check in the real estate SEO contest which I announced at the beginning of November.  For those that would like to join in the fun and learn more about how effective your blog is at capturing search engine rankings for a particular phrase, there’s still time.  The contest concludes [...]

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Predicting where the housing market is headed reminds me of choose your own adventure.  Which story and statistics would you like today? 
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article today says that the housing slump is headed here but it won’t hurt much.  They interviewed National City Corps. chief economist, who essentially says that Pittsburgh is likely to experience some effects from the housing slump [...]

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Two posts yesterday really hit home for me. 
“One of the best parts about Web 2.0 is the focus towards online collaboration.”
The first post was on the Center for Realtor Technology blog.  It said, “One of the best parts about Web 2.0 is the focus towards online collaboration.”  Although the context of the post makes clear that the reference [...]

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With the introduction of another home valuation tool (CyberHomes) to the market, Hotpads started running a comparison of the results from the home valuation tools.  Here are the valuations for ten homes around Pittsburgh from CyberHomes, Zillow, and RealEstateABC.  Listed represents the price that the home is currently listed for on the West Penn MLS.
 
 
    
House [...]

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Welcome to Realivent, a new website integrating a number of applications in the real estate arena.  I’m more impressed with the concept than the current execution, but it’s got potential.
Nubricks bagged an interview with Kendra Todd, winner of Donald Trump’s Apprentice 3.  Just goes to show that the real estate blog community is gaining in [...]

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If you are painting your home, I have to recommend ColorSmart, a cool online paint selection tool introduced to me by re:PDX and Lifehacker.

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It’s always fun to do something a bit different.  Last Friday, I experimented with poetry.  Today, I’m practicing my advertising slogans. 
The home valuation tool central to Zillow has been under attack as misleading recently, and Sellsius has unleashed 12 entries on the matter today.
Zillow and their legal team are probably hard at work trying to make the complaint [...]

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 T’was the night before Halloween, when even the moon,
Noticed Sellsius stopped stirring, stumped by a spoon.
The bloggers were waiting by their computers with care,
In hopes that wise Sellsius soon would be there.
The Realtors were nestled all snug in their beds. 
While visions of candy and commissions danced in their heads.
And Real Estate Tomato with his stories, and St. Paul Real Estate with [...]

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