Real Estate Oddities category archives

It’s not every day you see a home with a guitar-shaped pool, but we got tipped off to one in Bradenton, FL, that is listed for $1.25 million.
Located at 6176 9th Ave Circle, NE, Bradenton, FL 34212, this unique home was conceived by and built for Aaron Dorfman, an insurance company owner and amateur musician [...]

Last month, it was announced the Pontiac Silverdome would be auctioned off. The auction happened and the winning bid was… drum roll, please… $583,000.
$583,000!
Right, not a typo folks — $583,000 for an 80,31-seat sports arena, on 127 acres in Detroit Pontiac! According to the Detroit Free Press, the winning bidder is someone from Toronto who [...]

Welcome to the 2009 Zillow Home Value Index World Series!
The Philadelphia Phillies won last night, sending the 2009 World Series back to Yankee Stadium in the Bronx for Game 6 tomorrow night. The New York Yankees lead, 3-2, but as old-time Yankee Yogi Berra once said in one of his famous Yogi-isms, “It ain’t over [...]

After many requests, we’ve extended our Zillow Trick-or-Treat Housing Index to the City by the Bay, San Francisco.  Not only does SF have some of the best sunny fall weather in the country this time of year (I write this, weeping, from Seattle…), but some killer spots for scoring a bountiful booty of candy.  Without [...]

The Zillow Trick-or-Treat Housing Index expands to Boston. Drum roll please…
Top 5 Boston-area Cities and Neighborhoods to Trick-or-Treat
1.  Cambridge
2.  Somerville
3.  Brookline
4.  South End
5.  Charlestown

Methodology
There is a common belief that wealthy neighborhoods are the Holy Grail for harvesting the most Halloween candy. However, to provide a more holistic approach to Halloween trick-or-treating, the Zillow Trick-or-Treat [...]

Due to popular demand, we’ve decided to extend the inaugural Zillow Trick-or-Treat Housing Index to the Windy City, Chicago.
So, if you’re taking your kids out this Saturday, here are the best Chicago neighborhoods on our list. Please check the methodology below to see how we came up with this list.
Top 5 Chicago Neighborhoods to Trick-or-Treat
1. [...]

A New York City photographer, who is a Detroit native, and an architect plan on encasing one of Detroit’s 80,000 foreclosed homes in ice this winter to bring attention to Detroit’s growing economic crisis and housing downfall in an art project titled “Ice House Detroit.”
Detroit home values have taken a huge hit, dropping 23% year-over-year.
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Zillow folks tend to get a little carried away with Halloween (read: outlandish costumes and haunted house roundups). This year we decided to take it one step further and create the inaugural Zillow Trick-or-Treat Housing Index.
We created this index for Seattle, where Zillow is located, and Los Angeles. Los Angeles intrigued us because Zillow closely [...]

Where is the best place to trick-or-treat in your area?
As real estate data geeks and candy lovers, we here at Zillow decided to combine our passions and create the inaugural Zillow Trick-or-Treat Housing Index to help Seattle residents (where Zillow is located) determine the best overall neighborhoods to trick-or-treat this Halloween. Behold the list:
Top 5 [...]

Update (11/17/09): A Canadian firm has submitted the winning bid of $583,000 for Silverdome.
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Original post:
Obviously, it’s not a residential property, but it’s a headline we couldn’t pass up: the Pontiac Silverdome, which has hosted dignitaries, celebrities and events such as the Pope, the Super Bowl, and Hulk Hogan, is on the auction block in which [...]