Superstar celebrity couple Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony are doing a real estate two-step — buying a condo in Miami, while trying to sell their LA home.
According to the Miami Herald, Anthony announced at last week’s Miami Dolphins football game (Anthony is a minority owner of the team) that he and his wife, J-Lo, bought [...]

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Today, I am thrilled and excited to announce our new partnership with Windermere Real Estate, the largest real estate brand here in our own back yard in Seattle (among many other places).
Windermere is one of the largest real estate brokerages in the country, with 8,000 real estate agents and more than 30,000 listings. Windermere’s listings now appear [...]

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Since being immortalized in the song “My Sharona” by The Knack (at the tender age of 17) the real Sharona — Sharona Alperin — has become a successful real estate agent with Sotheby’s International Realty.
According to WalletPop.com, Knack leader Doug Fieger co-wrote the song about Sharona because he had a crush on her. In the [...]

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Are you a home buyer closing on a home in the next 1-4 months who is looking for your 15 minutes of fame? If you are eager to get in front of the camera and have a great story to tell about your real estate search experience, then this is your lucky day!
A national broadcast [...]

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What looks like a sloping silhouette of a mountain range in the chart above is actually the past three months of mortgage rates on Zillow Mortgage Marketplace and as you can see, mortgage rates for September have been pretty sweet, hovering around 5.00%.
As a result of these low rates, refinance loan requests on Zillow are [...]

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Though the movie Pineapple Express, starring Seth Rogen, may have lacked class, the home used for the shoot (it was the drug kingpin’s home in the movie) has spades of glamour.
The home is located in Glendale, CA and was originally built for writer/composer Jose Rodriguez in 1941 by architect R.M. Schindler. Rodriguez would often entertain [...]

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Loves LA asks on Zillow Advice:
“Near closing on a short sale with a tenant that won’t vacate. What are my options if…?”
I can hear a collective groan out there. This is a tough one — especially since the tenant is behind in rent. What are Loves LA’s options?

Originally posted here.

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Frank Lloyd Wright’s architectural masterpiece Fallingwater has been named one of the “28 Places to See Before You Die” by Smithsonian magazine and now fans have an opportunity to experience one of the most famous homes in America in a whole new way.

As part of a new program, Insight Onsite at Fallingwater, up to eight people at [...]

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If you look out your window at home and see a big, hunkering vehicle parked on your neighbor’s lawn, do you care? Zillow user papabear4 asks in Zillow Advice:
Can a motorcoach be parked on property?
I suppose it depends on ordinances for any given area…

Originally posted here.

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First, the Netflix Prize offered a $1 million to anyone who could improve the DVD-rental service’s recommendations by 10 percent. It was hailed as a brilliant idea. Now, the government is getting into the act by offering cash prizes up to $10 million — that’s right, $10 million - for improvements to the much-maligned light [...]

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