I’m a few days behind in this post, but it seems worth noting that the Seattle Times had two stories this past weekend on the Senior Housing market that made me scratch my head…
Article #1, some feel squeeze from senior-housing boom, explains how the boom in senior-housing facilities is making it difficult to find a starter-home, while article #2, many seniors find few housing choices in area, explains how seniors are finding it difficult to find small, inexpensive (i.e. starter) homes.
Maybe the two authors need to get together and write one article that says (surprise, surprise) that finding an inexpensive starter home in Seattle can be difficult. 🙂
Google Base launched today without the “housing” option that was available in the temporary site (as shown in this screenshot). Of course, users can still add their own housing information, but if it is not a default option, I doubt it will take off.
The site looks real interesting… Here’s a positive review and here’s a negative review. I’ll post my review after I’ve had a chance to play with it more.
So what impact will this have on the real estate industry?
Short-term: none.
Long-term: It depends on where Google takes it.
UPDATE: I’m experimenting with a feature of del.icio.us that lets me post all of the links that I’ve saved for that day. What do people think if I made this a daily feature? (Normally, there won’t be nearly as many links. I was playing with del.icio.us a lot today!) Also, I posted about del.icio.us last May.
There are so many interesting real estate search sites that are pop up every day, and in the process of trying to cover all of them in a blog format, I think things have gotten a little too scattered. So I took a little time this evening and put all of the sites that I’m aware of on one page along with a few notes about them. Check it out at:
At this point, I’ve broken all of the sites into four categories:
This beauty of making this list on a webpage instead of a blog post is that it will be much more fluid. I always feel awkward about updating a blog entry after I’ve posted it, but I’ll feel no qualms about updating this list on a regular basis. Along those lines, if you know of an innovative real estate tool that I’ve missed, please let me know!