It came as a total surprise when I received an email from International Listings that Luxury Home Digest had been tapped as one of the top 8 Home Buying blogs in the country–and one of the top 100 Real Estate Blogs.
WOW!
I join the other winners in this category in thanking the judges at International Listings for this special real estate honor:
Barbara Corcoran Ink: Barbara Corcoran, real estate entrepreneur, addresses real estate interests, concerns and questions. Her advice is mainly focused on home buyers and home owners.
For Sale By Locals (A New Real Estate Approach): A blog that is an offshoot of the œFor Sale by Locals Web site. Entries include business information, tips, and advice on how to work with online real estate services.
Home Buying and Selling Blog: About.coms Elizabeth Weintraub brings her home selling (and buying) experience to her blog. Wientraub is a real estate agent, but shes also lived all over the country from Maine to California and once even built a home in Mexico. She operates on the principle that œevery American deserves to own a home.
Hotpads: If youre in transition between homes, check out this site for information about available apartments, rental houses, sublets, and roommate opportunities. If youve got a place, theres someone out there who wants to rent it. This blog provides news, guides, tools, and promos for the site.
Luxury Home Digest: Roberta Murphy, editor for The Luxury Home Digest, is a real estate broker in the coastal San Diego market. However, her blog covers a wide range of topics related to fine living and real estate, including trends, markets, furnishings, tastes (including fine wines) and relevant gossip.
Real Estate Journal: This Wall Street Journal guide to real estate helps homebuyers arm themselves with the information they need to get the most for their money. Readers can browse entries on everything from mortgage rates and residential market trends to relocation and economic issues, home improvement ideas and advice on buying, selling and enjoying a home.
Trulia Blog: A Trulia employee blog where company happenings, real estate industry news, and other items are posted. The truly useful part in this site is the Trulia residential real estate search engine that helps consumers search for homes for sale, trends, neighborhood insights and other real estate information directly from hundreds of thousands of real estate broker Web sites.
Zillow Blog: Zillow helps consumers make smarter real estate decisions by providing them with access to the same information and tools agents use to value homes. Additionally, homeowners can take advantage of the Zestimate„¢ home valuation as a starting point for anyone to see – for free – for most homes in the U.S., discussions, and post homes for sale for free.
Most of all, though, I thank our readers and clients for all we learn from them!
Roberta…
Congrats on the recognition… you do a great job here on this site.
It takes commitment to create a blog on this calibar. Keep up the good blogging.
Craig Schiller
Real Estaging
Chicago
Craig:
Thank you–and congratulations on your own blog win! Real estate blogging is coming into its own–and it would be nice to see blogs with local focus recognized as well.
Hope all is well in Chicago!
Roberta, congratulations on your recognition of a powerfully superb blog site. Your readers are lucky to have such a powerhouse of a woman writing and bringing state of the art information directly to them. Glad that others recognized your strong abilities!
-Gena Riede
Gena:
I can’t tell you how honored I am by your comment. It comes from one who truly puts client interests first, understands their real estate concerns, and answers their complex questions in laymen’s terms.
Thank you.
Nice Job Roberta, I was just putting together a post on all the “Top 100’s” for the “TechKnowBabble” Blog, and came across a familiar friend from the Blogosphere! Congrats on being placed so high in the elite rankings of the “Top 100 Real Estate Blogs!” Your hard work and efforts are realized by others!! B-)
Brad:
Thank you–and thanks for stopping by!
Congratulations, Roberta! 🙂 You really do have a great blog.
Roberta: You have a wonderful site, and it’s no wonder you made the top 10 list. I will remember to mention your blog down the road. Thanks for mentioning mine. 🙂 We work as mavericks, mostly, so it’s nice to hear from other bloggers who put so much time, effort and energy into giving consumers information. You are like a breath of fresh air!