When a Santa Clara County Superior Court judge ruled recently requiring three major companies to pay $1.15 billion in lead paint remediation, the Los Angeles real estate industry took a collective breath. Roughly 2.6 million LA County homes could be affected by the...
Are you looking for the most bang for your home improvement buck? Then you'll be interested in this recent infographic by Nationwide Insurance, which details the top 10 home improvement for getting a return on your investment. The infographic breaks down the ROI of...
Realtor.com and RealBizMedia recently announced the launch of a new real estate channel called the Realtor.com Channel. Poised to launch in the second half of 2012, the new channel will bring millions of property listings into 55 million U.S. homes via the Cox cable...
Vicki Naggy, a hair stylist from Acme, Penn., was this year's winner of the HGTV Dream Home Giveaway 2012, which aired this past Saturday. As the grand prize winner, Naggy was given a new, fully furnished home in Midway, Utah, a 2012 GMC Terrain and $500,000. Her name...
The online real estate broker Sawbuck Realty recently launched the HomeSnap app for the iPhone. The app lets you take a picture of a home to get information on it, including current value, its last sale date and price, the local schools and more. Info on over 90...
The results of the 5th Annual Zillow Celebrity Neighbor Survey are out. Tim Tebow has been voted the most desirable celebrity neighbor for 2012, while the cast of "Jersey Shore" have, for the second year running, been named least desirable. More than 40 percent of...
The Occupy movement has a new target -- homelessness. An offshoot group called Occupy Our Homes has launched a campaign to call attention to the rise in homelessness due to the foreclosure crisis. This article on Treehugger goes into greater detail about the spin-off...
According to Freddie Mac's Chief Economist Frank Nothaft, the housing market should see improvements in the second half of this year. With the economy poised for an upswing, Nothaft sees the housing market following suit, with mortgage rates predicted to stay between...
Going on a trip? Here's a way to save on hotel costs: register your home on a "home exchange" website, find a registered home in the location to where you plan on traveling, contact that registered user, hope that they will want to live in your home at the same time...
Here's a rough one: An elderly woman in Kansas City was evicted from her home due to an unfortunate deed mix-up. Apparently the woman's friend and roommate--who owned the home--died in 1998 but failed to properly transfer the deed over to our current evictee. The...
