Real Estate

An online magazine with a tremendous amount of content, Realty Times is a source for both current news as well as helpful advice. Articles cover information that is useful to buyers and sellers. Even for those not currently looking in the market, the site provides a wealth of knowledge dealing with the many issues revolving around renting and home ownership. The library of articles covering HOAs is particularly in-depth.

This site provides a bountiful collection of property-specific data for homes across the United States. With graphical trends of estimated historic values for specific properties over time, maps of recent sales within a neighborhood, and property details such as assessed value culled from public records, this resource is an invaluable source of information to access before purchasing a home or listing a home for sale. Browsing for homes is easy and can be accomplished either from a satellite-view or street-view map, while the search tool allows results to be paired down by common criteria such as bedrooms/baths, square footage, lot size, or year built.

While this blog often features general commentary about the state of real estate, the focus is on marketing techniques that can help sell a home. On unique aspect that this blog explores is the applicability of online techniques such as search engine optimization and email marketing to home sales.

Maintained by realtors in southern California, this weblog features frequent updates regional trends as well as commentary and links to news of interest for those following the housing market.