There are many of us who love House Hunters, the ridiculously addictive show on HGTV about people who are, you guessed it, hunting for houses. And while we have long known in our hearts that much, if not all, of the show is staged and as fake a faux brick exterior, there is now seriously concrete proof that it is…

The Escala building in the Belltown neighborhood of Seattle is the setting where the kinky sexual relationship between billionaire Christian Grey and naïve college student Anastasia Steele takes place, and if you have about $6 million, you can live there! The condo has tons of amenities: a private spa, a gym with yoga…

Detroit-based startup Picket Report, "a new online research tool that helps homebuyers find their perfect neighborhood," is perfect for those whose idea of the "perfect neighborhood" means no scary poor people. Curbed got some screencaps of the website's "Struggling Societies" feature, which seems to have been…

A new study concerns some interesting analysis when it comes to real estate agents, house prices, and the length of time a property is on the market, reports Marina Adshade for Big Think. In a paper titled "Broker beauty and boon: a study of physical attractiveness and its effect on real estate brokers' income and…

Is your house or apartment feeling a bit cramped, but you can't afford to buy a bigger one in a neighborhood you like? Well, why not consider buying yourself an entire town. There happen to be a few for sale that offer plenty of space to spread out, if not a lot of neighbors to hang out with. For instance, Buford,…

It was the seventies! We were all on blow and selling houses to the Juice back then.

Megarich comic book archvillain/Presidential candidate Mitt Romney is working on showing America that he's serious about helping the Average American Win the Future or Defeat the Communism or whatever. But first, he's going to remodel his California mansion so it can fit an elevator for his cars inside.

Today in depressing housing-market news, YA author Francesca Lia Block could lose her home because the bank won't return her calls. The author of the Weetzie Bat books is underwater on her mortgage due to the recession. To make things more complicated, the mortgage is in her mom's name, and her mom is now dead. To…

We have math prodigies, music prodigies, language prodigies — and now, meet a fourteen-year-old real estate prodigy. She owns a house, sort of.

Curbed reports that 64 Perry street, the West Village townhouse used for the exterior shots of Carrie Bradshaw's house on Sex And The City is up for sale. Casual viewers of the show might not recognize the steps, possibly because they were only filmed for the first three seasons. Afterwards, the show used 66 Perry…

For many of us, it already feels like the entire inside of our house is decorated with things from IKEA, so wouldn't it be convenient if you could take the next step and just buy an entire prefab house from IKEA? Well, soon that dream will be a reality. They've collaborated with Ideabox, an architectural firm, to…

If you love the color pink and have a spare 3.3 million dollars laying around, you might want to consider investing in Dallas real estate because the home of cosmetics legend Mary Kay Ash is for sale. Yes, the Mary Kay. She died last year at the age of 83, and her former home is now on the market. It's a pale pink…

Bravo has given the greenlight to a new show, Love Broker, in which two best friends — one a real estate agent, and one a matchmaker — set up male clients in New York City. It's not exactly "sign here and get an apartment and a girlfriend," but every now and then, it does happen: "Sometimes, after selling an…

Last month, a Milwaukee county employee walked into a house that had been repossessed because of a tax foreclosure and found a very disturbing sight: a dead body. It turned out to be the former home owner, David Carter, who had been in the dead in the house since 2007. Yikes. His body was "nearly skeletonized," and…

Do you have tons of money and questionable taste? Do you enjoy wine and granite countertops and outdoor swimming pools full of desperation residue? Then why not rent the house made famous on this season of The Bachelor?!

If you're one of those people who lives in constant fear of the outside world, this might be the ideal place for you to live! It's a condo complex that's built into a former nuclear missile silo in the middle of Kansas. That's about as secure as it gets. According to CBS News, "It's the only condo in the world…

Do you watch House Hunters? "Oooh," you are thinking, "I love that show. I simply can't get enough of all those retired couples searching for farmhouses to restore in Italy, those students shopping for flats in Berlin, and those families being relocated to Botswana and Morocco for work. Bring on the voyeuristic peeks…

Oprah isn't spending as much time in Chicago since her show wrapped, so she's renting out her 4,607 square foot apartment for $15,000 per month. It's a small price to pay for the fun of hearing Oprah bellow your name every time you call her about the leaky sink.

Ann Curry's $2.9 million-dollar Upper West Side townhouse has been a point of much debate since she bought the "fixer upper" over eight years ago: first, they pissed off their neighbors with majorly disruptive construction. After building code violations, lawsuits, and noise complaints from their neighbors, Curry and…

Brazilian soap star and Columbia University student Adriana Ferreyr, 28, is suing billionaire financier George Soros, 80, for promising to give her two million dollar apartment and then giving it to someone else. The $50 million suit also says that he slapped and tried to choke her during an argument, which Soros…