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1) A team of the nation's top researchers have spent years and millions of dollars researching real estate listings and now you can learn what they've learned, while determining the following: staging helps homes sell. Hmm. Also, the nations top researchers have all been fired. [Sellsius]
2) Good news and bad news for Redfin, the "online real estate brokerage." Good news: San Francisco residents who use it typically pay less for their homes. Bad News: No one uses it. [SF Real Estate Blog]
3) Real estate agent goes to Amsterdam, gets some "crazy ideas," and sells her car upon returning to the Bay Area. All other real estate agents preemptively roll in their graves and somewhere a Hollywood screenwriter has started writing the next great stoner comedy / extended real estate listing. [SF Living]
4) A broker's haiku / inspires this post on Curbed / while the market tanks. [Square Feet Blog]