Friday Fun category archives

What is it that makes us buy a home? While some may argue that they bought their home because of its resale value, when you get down to it (really far down on the neuron level) it turns out that many people purchase their homes based on their dopamine receptors.
Real estate writer Katherine Salant investigates [...]

Yes, and it will talk back. No joke. Luke Mullins of U.S. News & World Report lists 8 innovations he thinks the typical American home will have in the future:
1. Point and build – Rather than cookie-cutter developments, experts say more consumers (than the existing 20 percent) will go for customized construction and use online [...]

Marie Claire recently came out with a non-scientific study of the Top 20 cities to meet single men.
Given that it’s a summer Friday afternoon, and we’re all feeling very non-scientific about now, we decided to take this study a bit further, and re-rank Marie Claire’s top 20 cities by highest Zillow Home Value Index, which [...]

Where there is an empty space, there is opportunity, at least in Baltimore.
The City of Baltimore’s Office of Promotion and the Arts recently launched a new Flicker-based Web site titled Baltimore Infill Survey to encourage its residents to submit ideas for what to do with vacant lots around the city. The ideas ranged from realistically pleasant to [...]

After a big day of excitement at the office last week around the launch of the  Zillow iPhone App, I prepared to enter a world where I thought the excitement would be about a different kind of “phone.”
For a couple weeks, I’d been looking forward to saxophone night at the University of Washington.  My [...]

“… they know who they are,” said First Lady Michelle Obama about guests who evidently broke some things while visiting the Obamas in the White House recently.  Michelle Obama recently appeared on ABC’s Good Morning America and when she was asked how her children, Malia and Sasha, are doing navigating around antiques and historic and [...]

There are a number of people who hear about Zillow on the radio, or see a television report that uses our real estate market data, or are told about us through a friend who loves our site (thank you!). But, unless you see it in writing, we see some confusion by people who don’t know [...]

Leave it to a couple of young entrepreneurial types who live in the soon-to-be neighborhood of soon-to-be former President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura.
DallasDirt has observed that signs like this one are popping up all over the Preston Hollow neighborhood on streets leading to the Bushes’ new home at 10141 Daria Pla, Dallas, [...]

Here’s a perfect Friday Fun blog post on some unique, weird, and wild buildings around the world, featured by Property Center in the Dominican Republic. Enjoy!
Also, please take a look at some of our Famous Unique Homes.

From the Times Herald in Newnan, GA today comes a story of an unfortunate house fire that can simply be summed up by its last line:
“Gantt advised against using a blow torch to rid a home of cobwebs.”
Thanks for the tip, Gantt. 
(and thank you Perez Hilton for the story.  How do you find this [...]