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:
This treehouse is blowing every preconceived notion you had about treehouses out of the water and offers spectacular views of the Northern Lights. It’d be a real shame if no adults were allowed.
A piece of Mary Tyler Moore history is on the market. The world-famous actress passed away earlier this week, and the classic Victorian home used as the backdrop for many memorable scenes on the Mary Tyler Moore show is up for sale.
Dubbed as “an Airbnb for dogs,” GoFetch is a new dog-sitting service in Vancouver. You can bet all these hound dog hotels are pet-friendly.
Captain Vancouver, also known as the Man of Sales, may have found his kryptonite: DC Comics itself. REALTOR® Ian Brett, who also dresses as a real estate superhero, received a letter from DC Comics warning him to stop acting like Superman.
Ian Brett calls himself a ‘real estate superhero’ but that could get him in trouble with DC Comics. https://t.co/hq9xS6sdNT
— Metro Vancouver (@vancouvermetro) January 25, 2017
Last week, I told you about the most expensive house in the U.S. Here’s a list of the top 25 most expensive homes on the U.S. market — all of which are more expensive than Canada’s top listing on REALTOR.ca ($38 million).
I’m no city planner, but building a road tunnel under a World Heritage Site seems risky, yet that’s what seems to be happening at the site of Stonehenge.
You can either live close to shopping amenities or live in the shopping amenities. This historic shopping mall in London hit the market for $500 million.
This odd house might be a home inspector’s worst nightmare. That’s because it’s built on one single pillar of concrete on a sloping plot of land.
The Super Bowl is fast approaching, which means the return of awesome commercials. But at $5 million for a 30-second ad, how else could you market yourself with that type of budget? Here’s a list.
What is President Donald Trump’s favourite part of his new White House digs? “These are the most beautiful phones I’ve ever used in my life,” he told the New York Times.
