Weekly Blend: November 24, 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:

It’s here! Black Friday! Shoppers are known to go to extremes for deals, so this Colorado real estate company decided to jump on the discount bandwagon.

If you’re looking on deals on things for your home instead of a home itself, here are some helpful Black Friday shopping tips.

For less than what you might pay for 300-square-feet of living space in some major cities, you could own the house where Bruce Springsteen lived out his Glory Days.

Live the resort life permanently in this Australian home, billed as the most expensive in the country. It comes with its own pub. The cost? Only $80 million.

Halloween is long over, but it’s never too late to market the house you’re selling as “not haunted.” This REALTOR® thinks it can be more effective than advertising free pizza with every purchase.

You don’t have to go to Egypt – or Las Vegas – to see a pyramid. Check out this pyramid-shaped cabin in the woods.

You’d think the 2017 World Building of the Year would be an extravagant, architectural masterpiece. Not so. It’s in fact a humble, post-earthquake home built for an elderly couple.

Are you a clean freak? Chances are you’ll know a few of the tricks on this list to help keep your house spotless.

Beds, couches, even bicycles, come in flat packs nowadays for easy shipping. Well, you can now add houses to that list. And at a price of $42,000 CAD, you can build a home in six hours.

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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