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 the Fed raising rates until 2009. BankRate® 30 Year Fixed Mortgage Rate Trend

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 expensive properties unchanged while focusing on properties in the mid- to high- price range. State [...]

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 18 and amend the definition of disability so that it is the same as the [...]

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, although this one is in LA, Beverly Hills to be exact, I definitely have to [...]

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 to take a jacket if they are headed to the Zoo.  For us old-timers we [...]

Get your macho on for a home once owned by America’s ultimate tough-guy, John Wayne. Listed for $2,263,000, you’ll see that the home is far from macho, if it ever was. Described as “Versailles style” by Lansner on Real Estate, Wayne’s former Newport Beach, CA home offers 4,448-sq ft of living space and sits on the [...]

Here’s a question from rc_hal in Dallas who asks in Zillow Advice: Is it common for a buyer’s broker to charge the buyer a flat fee at time of closing? I just received a “Residential Buyers Representation Agreement” and it states in the buyer’s obligations that at time of closing the buyer is required to pay [...]

It has been said before, choosing to rent or buy is a complicated decision and impacted by how long you plan to stay in a home, the needs of your family, your budget and so much more. If looking at homes has been narrowed down to the U.S.’s ninth largest city, where a love for the [...]

Many homeowners consider remodeling certain rooms in their home with the hopes it will return a higher appraisal value. While this is the end goal, there are other factors to consider when juggling a remodel and starting the refinance process. Zillow user Binks1 from Sacramento, CA asked for help in Zillow Advice and received some [...]

After releasing our July Real Estate Market Reports today, we brought Zillow Chief Economist Stan Humphries into the studio to dig a little deeper into the data. In the video below, he talks about stagnating rates of home value depreciation, the markets that are doing best and worst and Zillow’s expectations for the future. For more [...]

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Hot Latin popstar Ricky Martin was hoping to make money when he bought his oceanfront estate in 2007 for $16.25M and tried selling it half a year later for $22.5M. That would’ve been a 38% profit (before fees)! Huge letdown, though, since the gorgeous estate is still on the market, desperate for [...]

This morning we released a new monthly exclusive report with CNBC titled the CNBC/Trulia Home Traffic Report. The monthly reports will look at the share of traffic in local markets, relative to the top 100 cities searched across the country in the given month. We compare that traffic year over year to understand [...]

Christina Aguilera just reduced the asking price of her Mid Century Modern home with jetliner views of downtown LA, the ocean and is just minutes away from Beverly Hills and Sunset Strip. Check out the gorgeous pads and see what else is for sale in her ‘hood. 1443 Devlin Drive, Los Angeles [...]

SF Gate told us the other day that actress AND diva, Halle Berry and daughter Nahla are considering moving to the Bay Area. Reason? She wants to get away from the snap happy papparazzi and find a less crazed area to raise baby Nahla. Halle - San Francisco would be more than [...]

People online reported this morning that Jersey Shore’s “The Situation” (aka Mike Sorrentino) will most likely earn $5M this year (combining earnings from MTV, endorsement deals, personal branded products and club events). Make it rain Mikey! Word from the wise though - be smart and don’t throw it all away. Put some of [...]

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 [...]

Redfin’s monthly Bay Area real estate insider report draws from our proprietary database of information on homes for sale and that just sold, along with insight from our agents to get a sense of what’s going on in the market right now. If you’d like to receive the report via email, just sign up. Howdy Bay [...]

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 [...]

Redfin’s monthly Bay Area real estate market report draws from our proprietary database of information on homes for sale and that just sold, along with insight from our agents to get a sense of what’s going on in the market right now. If you’d like to receive the report via email, just sign up. Howdy Bay [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]