The new Levitt and Dubner Freakonomics book has come out (called, naturally, Super Freakonomics ) and the buzz has already started. The two authors are making the talk show circuits and they have a scheduled appearance tonight at Town Hall in Seattle. With the first book, they pissed us o ... Read more

A couple weeks ago on one of my afternoon walks I happened upon this For Sale sign: Oh! And then I remembered this: Kendra Todd has left Florida and was moving to Seattle and joining Keller Williams. Then yesterday I received this notice of a REO/Shortsale Panel talk featuring, wh ... Re ... Read more

Is there an online class divide? The research, and our own use, suggests that there is. In “Does your social class determine your online social network?”, author Breeanna Hare found that people in more affluent demographics are 25 percent more likely to be found friending on Face ... Read more

Happy Elvis Birthday Month! Hope to see you at the Elvis Invitationals! www.ElvisInvitationals.com ... Read the full post ... Read more

Rumor has it that Playboy was quietly being shopped around for $300 million and Apollo Capital Partners who owns Realogy, Century 21, Coldwell Banker and Better Homes & Gardens, has been approached to purchase the floundering dirty magazine business. Former CEO Christie Hefner would hav ... Read more

It’s always been a good idea and the right thing to do, but now the Federal Trade Commission will require bloggers to clearly disclose any freebies or payments they get from companies for reviewing their products. It is the first time since 1980 that the commission has revised its guide ... Read more

It could be that technology will trump all of these new NWMLS rules, and blogging/comments/AVM restrictions will become ineffective and impossible to enforce with the new Google Toolbar application called Sidewiki. Sidewiki is part of the Google Toolbar and is built directly into Firefox ... Read more

The Northwest Multiple Listing Service (NWMLS) recently announced new rule changes that will impact agents ability to blog about certain homes. There has always been a rule about not advertising another agents listings without permission, but this new rule specifically forbids blogging about a lis ... Read more

I don’t have a professionally-made website. I don’t have my own programmer or graphic designer. I have to use out-of-the-box solutions for mapping and search. But it’s mine and I worked hard to get it to rank in the search engines for Seattle Real Estate and Seattle Homes for ... Read more

More evidence the real estate market has changed: I did an interview for HGTV’s “What You Get for the Money” quite a while back, featuring a home in Wedgewood that was appraised for $800,000.00. More recently, we tried selling the home and it was listed in the $600K pri ... Read more