Pittsburgh Homes Daily

Pittsburgh was lucky enough to avoid Forbes’ list of the 10 most miserable cities. If you check the comments from Pittsburgh residents on some of the articles that have painted Pittsburgh as an up and coming city that has rejuvenated itself following the collapse of the steel industry, you might be surprised that some [...]

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Both Pittsburgh’s residential real estate market and commercial real estate market have received praise for their strength in recent days.
Moody’s ranked the Pittsburgh commercial real estate market the best in the nation in its latest survey of the market in 60 metropolitan regions. Back in 2005, it was ranked among the worst for [...]

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As the Pittsburgh Steelers host the Baltimore Ravens in the AFC Championship Game at Heinz Field today, I decided to check on the progress of the North Shore Connector, which will likely be used by many fans for transportation to the Steelers games when it is completed in 2011.
This past week, the tunnel boring machine [...]

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So somewhere along the way - probably around the time that I was hacked and subsequently upgraded wordpress - my feedburner feed stopped pulling correctly from my regular feed. Hopefully, this post will go out to both the old feed and the feedburner feed and everything will be almost back to normal.

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So I discovered that someone dumped some code linking to a bunch of spammy sites into my last two posts. I’ve since eliminated it and upgraded wordpress - so - here’s my TEST POST to see if I’ve got it fixed or if I’ve got to go back to the drawing board.

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I am alive.
Not just alive in the physical sense that I am breathing - I figure most of you probably guessed that - but ALIVE - that I am enjoying the twists and turns of life and excited about the future.
It has been almost a year since I’ve written an article for Pittsburgh Homes Daily [...]

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Here’s a truemor for ya:
Did you hear that Guy Kawasaki is using Redfin to sell this house in Pittsburgh?
Innovation. That’s not what’s happening when a real estate agent figures out how to post a profile on Myspace and even turn that profile into a … gasp … client. Or when a Realtor starts a blog [...]

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Photo by D’arcy Norman.

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12 months, 365 days, 371 posts, and 350 comments later, Pittsburgh Homes Daily is now 1 year old!
A page one ranking on Google for “Pittsburgh homes” and on the second page currently for “Pittsburgh real estate”.
15,000 visitors last year and 17,000 already this year (it’s about 4,000 unique visitors a month currently).
About 10,000 page views on my post [...]

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Applications for the Propel Pittsburgh Commission are being accepted by the Mayor’s office. If you didn’t catch the news story, the only metropolitan area in the US to beat Pittsburgh’s declining population was New Orleans. Subsequently, the Mayor announced (or reannounced?) the formation of the Propel Pittsburgh Commission to keep and attract young professionals to [...]

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