Weekly Blend: February 3, 2017

The Weekly Blend is your “weekly” source covering real estate news that you just may have missed. Our hard-at-work Weekly Blend crew scours the web looking for obscure, bizarre, interesting and informative real estate (or real estate related) stories. If you have one you’d like to share please feel free to share it in our comments section or tweet about it using the hashtag #WeeklyBlend. So brew yourself a fresh cup of coffee and enjoy these stories. Maybe even share them with friends or colleagues. Happy reading!

Here are my weekly picks:

How do you get a moose loose from your basement? Homeowners in Hailey, Idaho had that conundrum after the beast tried curling up on their carpet for warmth.

Something was definitely ssss-izzling in this Australian couple’s barbecue. When they opened it up, they found a huge snake curled up inside.

The Northwest Territories’ tourism marketer is taking a page out of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and hiding “golden tickets” (free round trips) to the territory’s capital city in promotional material.

When these two New Brunswick neighbours stopped getting along, one of them created a cattle manure wall to separate the two properties.

The English house where the famous Winnie-the-Pooh books were penned is for sale, and it’s just outside the inspiration for Hundred Acre Wood.

If you’re hosting a Super Bowl party this weekend, here is a list of décor tips to make sure your get-together doesn’t flop like the Cleveland Browns’ season.

Speaking of football, have a peek inside some of the most lavish homes that were bought, sold, or listed by NFL players in 2016.

Let’s hope Jessica Alba’s dad knows a thing or two about housing price trends, taxes and the art of negotiation. The Hollywood star recently used her dad as her real estate agent to purchase a $10 million home.

A Saskatoon development group says there’s enough interest in the local housing market to create a village of tiny houses. I wonder, are the streets, sidewalks and lampposts also tiny?

Just hold on, Drake is staying home. The Toronto rapper’s Yolo Estate in Hidden Hills was briefly listed for $20 million but no longer seems to be for sale.

Matt Day brings his experience as a nationally-recognized multimedia journalist to the Canadian Real Estate Association as a Communications Advisor. Matt provides professional writing, digital media and communications support to CREA and assists in developing engaging social media content. He is regularly featured in the CREA Café where he provides interesting and entertaining content for REALTORS® to enjoy. Matt is a professional photographer but has dreams of becoming a rock star. He also enjoys mountain biking, skiing, hiking, and using the Oxford comma.


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