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:
Happy New Year! I hope you all had a safe and fun New Year’s Eve, and didn’t shoot any fireworks at homes in your neighbourhood.
Have you already broken your New Year’s resolution? Join the club. Instead of giving up already, try refocusing your resolution to benefit your home. Here are 10 tips to get you organized for 2019.
It may look like a setting out of a medieval movie, but this Calgary castle is for sale and is certainly fit for a king (or a queen).
A REALTOR® from Missouri is going viral for his community spotlight video, “You know you’re from Springfield if…” My version would be a lot shorter: “You know you’re from Springfield if you’re a yellow cartoon character.”
I’m still not sure if this house is real or from a fairy tale. From the outside, “The Winckler” home could be confused with Sleeping Beauty’s whimsical abode.
Prepare to ride the waves if you buy one of these apartments in Denmark. The sprawling, nine-storey complex sits on the shores of Vejle’s bay and complements its surroundings beautifully.
If you drive—or walk—too fast by this tiny, tall Toronto home, you might miss it, yet it’s still on the market for $3 million. Standing three storeys tall, it’s less than 12-feet wide.
Prepare to be a-mazed! You’ll lose yourself in this six-bedroom country home, partly because it’s gorgeously rustic, but mainly because it has a giant octagonal maze made from 1,200 yew trees in the backyard!
Who doesn’t love a good-looking front door? This London photographer is all about posting pictures of the city’s fanciest façades.
Raise your hand if you got a smart home device over the holidays. After you’re done looking silly with one arm in the air, you might want to double check your device’s security settings.
