Charlie Sheen keeps cutting the price of his mansion

Charlie Sheen has slashed the price of his California estate to $7.99 million — the fifth price drop since listing it last year — proving that even celebrities sometimes struggle to sell their homes. Continue reading

How much house can you afford? Realtor.com’s new tool will tell you

Realtor.com on Wednesday introduced ‘Price Perfect,’ a new feature for its website and mobile apps to help home buyers more deeply understand their buying power when shopping for homes.  Continue reading

Revaluate’s ‘Likely-To-Move’ score is right 1 in 5 times

Altos Research performed an independent study of Revaluate’s “Likely-To-Move” score, and the results show that it’s accurate 19.5 percent of the time. Continue reading

An offer they can’t refuse? ‘Godfather’ house lists for nearly $1.4M

The Tudor-style property that belonged to Michael Corleone in the legendary movie has hit the market for $1.375 million. Continue reading

How Curaytor is solving the Instagram marketing puzzle

Real estate sales and marketing platform Curaytor announced Wednesday, via Instagram, that customers are now able to integrate the popular picture-based social medium into their marketing plans. Curaytor will only communicate via The Gram for the next … Continue reading

Zillow is testing self-guided home tours to compete with iBuyers

Zillow is piloting a new program in Phoenix that gives prospective homebuyers access to the online behemoth’s homes without appointments or even agents. Continue reading

Compass is now showing the listing agent on competitors’ listings

Compass, last week, quietly made a big change to the way it displays listings on its consumer-facing website. Every non-Compass listing now shows the listing agent and contact information for the listing agent, making Compass’ site more similar to Zill… Continue reading

Who’s paying $17,500 a day to rent a house in the Hamptons?

You know real estate is getting out of hand when people are paying $1.5 million — or $17,500 a day – to rent a temporary summer property. Continue reading