Real Estate category archives

From $69/sq. ft. to $370/sq. ft. — How far can YOUR dollar go?
We took at look at how much home (a.k.a., square feet) $200,000 can buy across the country using Zillow’s *new* Q2 Real Estate Market Reports metric, Median Value Per Square Foot.
Here is what we found in eight of the 161 metros we cover:
Grand Rapids Metro [...]

Jose and Denise Flores of Ashland, OH are facing foreclosure on Aug. 24 and they are not alone – their five tigers may be put out as well. The Ohio couple runs the Tiger Paw Exotic Rescue Center on their one-acre property and has worked with exotic animals for 20 years. The animals reside [...]

While I was visiting the Seattle neighborhood where “The Details” is being filmed (starring Tobey Maguire), I saw this old bicycle chained to a pole nearby. It was outfitted with signs advertising a condo for sale and it had a pouch containing listing flyers.
The listing for this condo is across town in Fremont at 4321 [...]

Frank Lloyd Wright created the celebrated “Fallingwater” home, which was built in the late 1930s for the Kaufmann family of Pittsburgh, PA. It’s no surprise then that Frank Robert, a protege of Wright’s, created his own version of Fallingwater in 1946 in Three Rivers, CA, at the base of Sequoia National Park.
Kaweah Falls, as it [...]

The Aspen Times reported today that a home in Aspen CO sold for $43 million — making it “… the largest sale of a single-family residence in the country so far in 2009.”
It was reportedly a straight cash deal from a buyer who became interested in the property at the end of last year’s ski [...]

One of the most-asked questions we get is how to find comps, or comparables, on Zillow. Comparables, by definition, are homes that recently sold (ideally, within 3-6 months) that are similar to yours. If you’re selling your home, comparables are a critical piece of the puzzle when figuring out how to price your home for [...]

The Midsummer Classic is finally upon us.  This year, St. Louis will host the 2009 Major League Baseball All-Star game on Tuesday, July 14, showcasing the new Busch Stadium (above) that opened in 2006 (watch this interesting time-lapse photography of the new Busch Stadium being built adjacent to the old one).  The $346 million stadium [...]

Today we announced some significant milestones achieved in the first half of 2009 (how could it be July already??), including a whopping 67 percent year-over-year traffic increase. On average, 8.3 million people (unique visitors) came to Zillow each month so far this year.
You can see all of our record-breaking stats in today’s press release, but meanwhile here’s a [...]

If you’re trying to sell your home, it goes without saying that you want to generate as much interest among potential home buyers as possible.  So how do you make your house stand out — especially in this foreclosure-saturated market where homes are sitting for months?
In the past, it was all about curb appeal - a manicured lawn, a [...]

How do you diagnose why a house — a nice looking house that has been on the market for 3 months — result in zero showings? Zero. As in, no one came by to see it. I’m not saying why hasn’t anyone stopped in to see it?
This post, ” Is My Realtor Doing Her Job?” [...]