Lighthouse Listings is a real estate website that allows anyone to advertise their property for sale or rent.

With talk of inflation in the air thoughts are turning to the Fed raising rates in the near future.  This certainly affects the monthly payments for current buyers who have not locked in their rate.  But Brian Brady doesn’t see … Continue reading →

Increases in Rate of Real Property Transfer Tax Rate Proposed Two supervisors, Aaron Peskin and Jake McGoldrick, have proposed increases in the rate of the city’s real property transfer tax. Both proposals are intended to leave the rate for less … Continue reading →

Daly Introduces Two Ordinances Aimed at Rental Property Owners Supervisor Chris Daly has introduced two proposed ordinances that, if passed, will affect rental property owners. One would prohibit owner move in evictions for households with children under the age of … Continue reading →

You have to check out www.therobclark.com a web site that cleverly focuses on the experience of a new condo, rather than the amenities or finishes.  I’ve been critical of the blandness of the majority of our new construction web sites, … Continue reading →

I love Weather Bonk, a site where you can map weather, and check out web cams all over the City.  With our diverse micro climates here in the Bay Area it’s difficult to explain to newcomers why they might want … Continue reading →

Today, we’re excited to announce the launch of the Zillow Mortgage Marketplace Android App, which provides personalized loan quotes, lender ratings, real-time mortgage rates and mortgage [...]

Wow, what a year. As we turn 6 today, we can’t help but look back on an amazing 5th year for Zillow.com, Zillow Mobile and Zillow’s [...]

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Mortgage rates for 30-year fixed mortgages fell this week, with the current rate borrowers were quoted on Zillow Mortgage Marketplace at 3.66 percent, down from 3.72 [...]

The Freak is getting paid. Big time. But the big question in San Francisco is whether some of the franchise-record salary that pitcher Tim Lincecum is [...]

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Valentine’s Day is coming up, and we’ve been looking for just the right way to show you how much you mean to us. Rather than buying you candy or flowers, we figured that you would know what you’d want, especially if we gave you $500 to play with. We’re giving away $500 for you to spend [...]

One theme that we commonly hear from real estate professionals is a request to improve the varying quality of leads they receive from online sources.   As a response to this agent need, today Trulia is proud to announce Trulia Insight, our newest product that helps agents get access to the highest quality leads on Trulia. Trulia [...]

At Trulia, we work hard to balance the needs of both the consumers who visit our site and the agents, brokers and MLS organizations we partner with.   Ensuring data accuracy and integrity is paramount to delivering an exceptional search experience for our users. Trulia’s top priorities are to provide highly accurate listing information to consumers, [...]

At Trulia, we spend a lot of time looking at houses. When you see so many amazing homes on a daily basis, it’s hard to pick a favorite. We challenged our mighty PR team of Ken, Daisy, Cristin and Vanessa to pick their favorite home currently for sale on Trulia and explain why. While each [...]

Before we welcome in the New Year, Trulia’s Chief Economist looks back at 5 events that really mattered for housing in 2011 - and beyond. Government, the mortgage industry and forces of nature all shook the housing market in 2011. They had both an immediate impact and slow-burning effects, setting the stage for a bumpy [...]

It’s time for our monthly check-in of the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices (HPI). The Case-Shiller data is generally considered to be the most reliable measure of overall home price changes for a region, since they only consider repeat sales of homes when calculating their index, instead of looking at all the homes that sold in [...]

Over on the national blog, we just posted another big analysis of hundreds of thousands of listings and sales. Here are the numbers for San Francisco (SF & San Mateo Counties), where winter is still a winning time to list your home for a quick sale, a better chance of selling, and a better price:

It’s time for our monthly check-in of the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices (HPI). The Case-Shiller data is generally considered to be the most reliable measure of overall home price changes for a region, since they only consider repeat sales of homes when calculating their index, instead of looking at all the homes that sold in [...]

It’s time for our monthly check-in of the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices (HPI). The Case-Shiller data is generally considered to be the most reliable measure of overall home price changes for a region, since they only consider repeat sales of homes when calculating their index, instead of looking at all the homes that sold in [...]

Greetings, Redfinnians! This month we rolled out a new and improved version of our monthly insider report. “But where is it,” you ask. Ahh, well this new report is available via email-only, and was sent out to a group of registered users who have saved searches or favorites in select neighborhoods. We’ll be expanding the [...]

I had a couple of things lined up to possibly blog about earlier today — the impending rollback of jumbo-conforming mortgage rates, national home sales and such — but instead I’m here to tell you that the Mercury News is pulling the plug on my blog, Square Feet. It’s been decided by our editors that [...]

Vote for one. LIBOR stands for: 1) Lending Is Becoming Outrageously Restrictive 2) Liberty Invites Behavior Of Recklessness 3) London Inter Bank Offering Rate Alas, number three, the boring option, is correct. (But I’m really fond of the other two options — when they kick me out of the journalism business someday, maybe I can write for a board-game [...]

I think it was early September that I wrote an article in which a number of real estate market-observers theorized that Silicon Valley might see pretty healthy home sales in early fall this year, thanks to fairly low interest rates, and prices that had dropped enough to attract formerly reluctant buyers. But then Wall Street [...]

The Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America is holding workshops tomorrow (Saturday, Oct. 18) in 38 cities across the country to get borrowers who can’t afford their mortgages into what NACA says is an effective program to get the loans restructured with low interest rates that allow borrowers to stay in their homes. One of these workshops [...]

Well, fewer people may be buying property in San Jose this year than last, but the number of people thinking about buying here appears to be way up, according to data about online property searches on Realtor.com. In a press release today, Realtor.com, which is the official web site of the National Association of Realtors, [...]