Pittsburgh Homes Daily

Last night, the Urban Design Associates and the Pittsburgh Penguins held a meeting to get input from residents on the development of the new Penguins arena. Architect Don Carter, President of Urban Design Associates, indicated to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that the doors are wide open for public participation.
Sounded nice.
Until I started thinking about my [...]

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The Post-Gazette celebrates the announcement of the move of the Downtown YMCA from 330 Blvd. of the Allies to Millcraft’s Market Square Project.  The editorial says, “It will be a boost to the heart of the Golden Triangle.”
Total distance the facility is moving: ~ 1/4 mile.  I mapped it on Google and if you go [...]

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Sorry - I was beginning to think that if I didn’t use the words “Redfin” and “60 Minutes” at some point this week I wouldn’t be able to call Pittsburgh Homes Daily a real estate blog in the future.
Yawn.

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HouseFront announced yesterday that it now provides home valuations online and via text message for 100 million homes in the United States. HouseFront CEO James Eberhard graciously agreed to answer a few of my questions about HouseFront.

Tell me a little bit about HouseFront:
HouseFront is a Denver, Colorado based company. We were founded in late [...]

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When I posted my list of 750 real estate blogs at the start of April, I speculated that there were over 1,000 active real estate blogs. 
Since that date, I have discovered two real estate blogs within an hour of Pittsburgh that I was unaware existed.  Now, I’ve been emailed about two high profile real estate agents [...]

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When I checked out the website for HGTV’s new reality show about a group of Northern New Jersey Realtors (Bought & Sold - premieres Sunday April 29 at 10 PM est), I found this interesting Coldwell Banker ad:

Too Funny. Better watch out, Zillow!

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Traditionally, apartment hunters must search through hundreds of listings by landlords and rental companies in order to find the perfect apartment. Tenant Market is trying to change that process to make it easier for both landlords and tenants.
Jeremy Bencken from TenantMarket.com kindly agreed to answer a few of my questions about how it works. [...]

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The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review noted today that home sales held steady in the Pittsburgh region from Jan. to March.  The story pretty much tracks every report I’ve seen on Pittsburgh housing over the last year: Not up big.  Not down big.  Just steady.
The much more interesting numbers will be April through June. 

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Last month, Pittsburgh-based mobile media company MoGoes  created a buzz around Pittsburgh when it announced that it would be working with Visit Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership to create mobile content for downtown Pittsburgh.  It turns out that this story was just the tip of the iceberg for our local startup.  It has grand plans in the real estate [...]

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As I’ve been searching the country for real estate blogs, I have to shamefully admit that I’ve missed two in my own backyard. 
The Realtor Association of Metropolitan Pittsburgh has been blogging since December 2006 at on RAMP: Real Estate Newswire; and
Jeff Philibin of Allied Home Mortgage in Johnstown also has a Mortgage blog.
Sorry!  Just goes to [...]

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