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Will You Be Buying Your Next House With Bitcoins?
If you’re not ready to throw down cash for that new house, maybe you can dig deep for some bitcoins? For the second time this week, a seller has promised to accept the virtual currency as valid...
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Drones Could Be Next Tool for Real Estate Agents
Scott Gerami says he’s always “had a passion for gadgets and technology,” and after 26 years in real estate, he’s still looking for an edge to make his listings stand out in a crowded marketplace....
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Technology versus Tech-Knowledgy
Guest post by Nick Baldwin, Listing & Buyer Specialist, and Director of Technology for The Baldwin Dream Team, Keller Williams I was sitting in a listing appointment recently, showing a potential...
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Why is Renting Still Stuck in the Paper Era? Q&A With Cozy CEO
When you apply for a job these days, you’re not handing a paper resume to a hiring manager. Why is the rental application process any different? On the rental hunt, we’re accustomed to filling out a...
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The Race to Build Command Centers for Smart Homes
Smart-home products is one of the hottest topics at this week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Shown, Wink Relay and Wink Hub products displayed at a Home Depot in Emeryville, Calif., on...
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Beautiful Homes in the Most Dynamic Big Cities of 2014
The Milken Institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank, recently released its list of the “best-performing” cities in the country. What exactly does a best-performing city have that others don’t?...
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Getting Home Speaker Wires Out of the Way
When you set up an awesome surround sound system, you want to hear the reverberations of sound effects when you watch a movie, not the thump of people hitting the ground after they trip over loose...
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Why Aren’t These 9 High-Tech Home Features Standard by Now?
When “Back to the Future Part II” came out in 1989, we all thought we’d be getting around on hoverboards and flying cars and wearing sneakers with automatic laces by 2015. In “The Jetsons,” Rosie the...
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Ikea Introduces Furniture You Can Charge Your Smartphone On
Swedish furniture maker Ikea International A/S unveiled a new range of furniture that it says can wirelessly charge some mobile devices. The Swedish furniture giant made the announcement on Sunday at...
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Hack Your Bedroom: High-Tech Devices Aim to Upgrade Your Sleep
Waking up on Sunday morning to find that an hour of your day has vanished is no big deal. It’s the lost hour of sleep each morning for the rest of the week that hurts, at least until your body...
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How Fast Internet Affects Home Prices
Michelle McLoughlin for The Wall Street Journal In May, Kara Burke and Tom Cairns thought they had found their ideal house: a nicely-updated older three-bedroom home in Worthington, Mass. But they...
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Want to Know If Someone Died in Your Home? There’s a Site for That
Homes: Feverpitched; Grim Reaper: Ivan Bliznetsov/iStock/time immemorial Your disclosure form and home inspection reveal plenty about the house you’re buying. Oops, there is lead paint. Darn, termites...
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Is Reno the New San Francisco?
Skyline: David Sucsy/iStock; text: crossroadscreative/iStock Reno, NV, gets a lousy rap. A down-and-out casino town, with higher-than-average unemployment and high crime that has somehow remained...
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Top 10 Tech Tools for REALTORS®
Many people live in smart homes, drive smart cars and use smart phones. REALTORS® should be no different, especially with all the tech tools at their disposal nowadays. While some brokers still use...
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5 Ways to Improve Your Life With Renter Technology
Goodluz/iStock/Thinkstock[/caption] Finding an apartment is easy with realtor.com®’s Rentals App, but what about after you move in? There are roommates to deal with, neighborhoods to explore and...
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The Startup Tech World Emigrates From the U.S. Suburbs
Geber86/iStock When it comes to incubating big tech ideas, most of us think of Silicon Valley outside San Francisco as ground zero. After all, this area is the hallowed birthplace of such global...
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Forget Mansions—Americans Are Drooling Over Cabins
CabinPorn McMansions used to be one supersize symbol of the American dream, but these days many of our country’s most celebrated businesspeople see success more diminutively: in the form of a cabin....
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What Happens to Housing if a Tech Bubble Bursts?
city: Suat Gürsözlü/iStockhand: Fanatic Studio/Getty Imagescomputer: Dragonian/iStock Although home prices in many parts of the country have exceeded their precrash peak, this is not, by most...
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Your Ultimate Home Security Cheat Sheet
Maxiphoto/iStock You really love your large, flat-screen TV and all your awesome gadgets, right? Well so does someone else. It’s a scary thought that there could be someone casing your joint right now...
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Is It Really a Sin to ‘Borrow’ a Neighbor’s Wi-Fi?
scyther5/iStock.com In addition to thou shalt not kill and thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife, there’s a new religious commandment in the books: Thou shalt not steal thy neighbor’s Wi-Fi. Or so...
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Gardening and Landscaping the Smart Home Way
Francois De Heel/Getty ImagesThe grass is getting greener, the days are getting longer, and the temperatures are making their slow march ever upward. Spring is in the air—at least on the Northern...
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Modern Technology for Man’s Best Friends
shopus.furbo.comIn this age of smartphones, fit watches and 4K television, it’s easy to forget that man’s best friend isn’t mechanical at all. Yes, our furry friends, be they Fido or feline, offer...
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Want a Smart Home? 5 Reasons to Get Started Now—and How
David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesYou’ve probably heard the term “smart home” a lot lately. After all, almost half of Americans now own some type of smart home technology, according to a...
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Smart Lighting Ideas to Make Your Home Brighter Than Ever
mikkelwilliam/iStockStill turning lights on and off by hand? Then allow us to shed light on another fascinating facet of The Connected Home: smart lighting. Home lighting options today relieve you of...
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So Long, Silicon Valley: The Best Cities for Tech Jobs in 2017
RiverNorthPhotography/ istockCountless programmers, coders, and engineers with a dream have flocked to Silicon Valley in hopes of making bank and putting down roots—but is the San Francisco Bay Area...
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Mortgage Closings Just Took a Big Step Into the Digital Age
Chris Gash for The Wall Street JournalBorrowers used to closing on a mortgage in a conference room surrounded by other parties to the transaction may soon be in for a pleasant surprise. The ink-free,...
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Where Do Tech Salaries Stretch the Furthest? Hint: Not in California
Ultima_Gaina/iStockThe classic story goes something like this: Hordes of computer whizzes fluent in a myriad of programming languages move to uber-pricey Silicon Valley or San Francisco each year. But...
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8 Tech Innovations That Make Life Easier for Landlords
nn Hermes/The Christian Science Monitor via Getty ImagesIt’s easy to make money as a landlord, right? You just sit back and watch those rent checks roll in. Wrong! For many, it’s a full-time job that...
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10 Household Items You Really Shouldn’t Put in the Donation Pile
istock/dragana991It’s that time of year again. As in, the time to purge your garage, your basement—and every other space in your home—for a fresh start to the new year. Farewell, broken DVD player!...
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A 3-D-Printed Family Home? A Texas Startup Says It Can Deliver
Julia Robinson for The Wall Street JournalAUSTIN, Texas—A Texas startup says it will be able to use a 3-D printer to churn out a concrete house within days by year-end, a technology that has the...
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