Jonathan Miller of The Matrix has posted this weeks Carnival of Real Estate. Jonathan is a real estate appraiser and The Matrix is a wealth of real estate economic data. If you haven’t discovered it yet, go there NOW.
Jonathan provides a great summary of all the many Carnival posts. Some fine reading is to be [...]

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Back on March 9, Google bought up a company called Upstartle. Upstartle created an on-line collaborative word processor called Writely. Much like when gMail first started, you needed an “invitation” to get a Writely account. I tried to get an invite, because I’m a closet computer geek who likes to try [...]

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It is far too easy to get a real estate license. There, I’ve said it (again). It’s probably going to irritate a lot of people but that’s just too bad. It’s ridculously easy to get a real estate sales license. All you need to do (in AZ) is sit through 90 hours of classroom “education”, [...]

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It’s already all over the real estate blog world, but Zillow has released their latest update.
Here’s an email I received from Drew Meyers from Zillow.com (me and a zillowan other people, I’m sure)

I’m guessing you might have already heard, but I thought I’d mail you anyway regarding the new version of Zillow that we shipped [...]

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** Showing my age with that 1980 Donna Summer ditty **
Tomorrow at 11:00 local time on 91.5 KJZZ, Greg Swan will be a guest on KJZZ’s Here and Now radio program. Greg runs the exquisite Bloodhoundblog and sums up the show there. Greg will be joined by a local real estate analyst for what promises [...]

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