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MSN.com launches new real estate blog

Posted by: Prashant Gopal on June 19

The number of real estate blogs has ballooned since the housing bubble went bust. Real estate sites such as Trulia, Zillow, and Inman have their own blogs. Independent blogs have been around for years with such ominous names as “Housing Doom,” “Blown Mortgage,” and “Dr. Housing Bubble Blog.” And old-media publications have well established blogs, including our own Hot Property.

Microsoft’s MSN.com today finally launched its first real estate blog called “Listed.” The site recruited former Seattle Post-Intelligencer copyeditor and homeowner Mai Ling Slaughter to write it (Slaughter was working at the Intelligencer until it published its last print edition in March).

MSN has been adding blogs to the site, but it still gets 75% of its content from editorial partners. MSN Real Estate has 18 editorial partners, including The Wall Street Journal, SmartMoney, and BusinessWeek.

Reader Comments

Rhys

June 19, 2009 03:07 PM

I have to admit, I would have guessed that the number of real estate blogs would have gone down. But I suppose this makes sense. If anything is going to go down, it's real estate brokers, not necessarily independent writers talking about real estate. When things were simply going up, there wasn't much to add to the discussion. I hope MSN's "Listed" takes a page from "The Power of Small" and remembers to keep it small and focus on the details. That is what's interesting right now.

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June 25, 2009 11:07 AM

With the bad economy, real estate agents need as much information as possible out there. Blogging is a great way to go about this.

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BusinessWeek editors Chris Palmeri, Prashant Gopal, Peter Coy, and Dean Foust chronicle the highs and lows of the housing and mortgage markets on their Hot Property blog. In print and online, the Hot Property team first wrote about the potential downside of lenders pushing riskier, "option ARM" mortgages and the rise in mortgage fraud back in 2005—well ahead of many other media outlets. In 2008, Hot Property bloggers finished #1 in a ranking of the world's top 100 "most powerful property people" by the British real estate website Global edge. Hot Property was named among the 25 most influential real estate blogs of 2007 by Inman News.

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