Real Estate

Can You Buy a House With Bitcoin? Alternative Currencies on the Rise As Realtors Market Homes to Tech-Savvy Set

By Joanna England / December 18, 2013 /

This Hamptons home can be yours for $799,000, or 1,445 in Bitcoin … wait, that’s 1,444 in Bitcoin … no, it’s 1,445. Yeah, 1,445. While the value of Bitcoin, an alternative currency launched in 2009, is still wildly fluctuating, the novelty isn’t. But this listing, a Southampton, NY, cottage owned by Phillip Preuss, isn’t the…

Inwood Mortgage Home of the Week: Here's Where Kidd Kraddick Lived the Last Days of His Beautiful Life

By Candy Evans / December 18, 2013 /

Unit 3104, finished out and built by custom home builder extraordinaire Mark Molthan, is available at $1,675,000. It was the home of the late Kidd Kraddick. This unit was painstakingly crafted out of the original concrete shell by Mark and New York City-based interior designer Laura Kirar. It is listed with Lois Woodward of Virginia…

Inwood Mortgage Home of the Week: Here’s Where Kidd Kraddick Lived the Last Days of His Beautiful Life

By Candy Evans / December 18, 2013 /

Unit 3104, finished out and built by custom home builder extraordinaire Mark Molthan, is available at $1,675,000. It was the home of the late Kidd Kraddick. This unit was painstakingly crafted out of the original concrete shell by Mark and New York City-based interior designer Laura Kirar. It is listed with Lois Woodward of Virginia…

Inside National Real Estate Online News: AOL Real Estate To Use Real Estate Content from Zillow

By Candy Evans / December 17, 2013 /

I awoke this morning to word that AOL Real estate and Move.com, the Westlake, CA-based company that operates web sites and blogs for the National Association of Realtors, have severed an almost three-year contract in which Move.com provided real estate content for the AOL Real Estate consumer site from about 425 MLS’s. In the wild…

Golfer Lanny Wadkin’s Preston Trail Home Goes To Auction Thursday, but What About Michael Jordan’s Place Up in Chicago’s Highland Park?

By Candy Evans / December 17, 2013 /

I told you weeks ago that Lanny Wadkins’ house in Preston Trails had signed up for auction with Concierge Auctions. There’s no reserve.  The auction is this Thursday, and I will be there, of course, to report. The 9,521 square foot home (five bedrooms, five full and three half bathrooms, a pool, 9-hole putting green and practice area,…