{"id":1527,"date":"2007-06-12T09:09:59","date_gmt":"2007-06-12T16:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1527"},"modified":"2007-06-12T10:11:58","modified_gmt":"2007-06-12T17:11:58","slug":"redfins-sweet-digs-weblogs-resurrected-as-neighborhood-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1527\/redfins-sweet-digs-weblogs-resurrected-as-neighborhood-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"Redfin&#8217;s Sweet Digs weblogs resurrected as neighborhood sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com\/venture\/archives\/116552.asp?source=rss\" target=\"_blank\">John Cook&#8217;s Venture Blog:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Sweet Digs&#8221; is back &#8212; kind of.<\/p>\n<p>The Redfin real estate blog, which was shut down last month after agents complained to the Northwest Multiple Listing Service that the home reviews were hurting sales, is making its return today in a modified state.<\/p>\n<p>No longer will Redfin bloggers post in-depth reviews of open houses. Instead, the posts will detail information such as price reductions, past sales, open house listings and the number of homes for sale in certain neighborhoods. It also plans to do previews of new listings.<\/p>\n<p>Sweet Digs also will be launched later this summer in Boston and Southern California, the company&#8217;s two newest markets.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/blogging\" rel=\"tag\">blogging<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/disintermediation\" rel=\"tag\">disintermediation<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate\" rel=\"tag\">real estate<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate marketing\" rel=\"tag\">real estate marketing<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/Redfin.com\" rel=\"tag\">Redfin.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From John Cook&#8217;s Venture Blog: &#8220;Sweet Digs&#8221; is back &#8212; kind of. The Redfin real estate blog, which was shut down last month after agents complained to the Northwest Multiple Listing Service that the home reviews were hurting sales, is making its return today in a modified state. No longer will Redfin bloggers post in-depth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,6,5,27],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1527","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-blogging","7":"category-disintermediation","8":"category-marketing","9":"category-real-estate","10":"category-redfincom","12":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1443,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1443\/defending-redfin-sweet-digs-buried-by-inane-mls-rules\/","url_meta":{"origin":1527,"position":0},"title":"Defending Redfin: Sweet Digs weblog buried by inane MLS rules","author":"Greg Swann","date":"May 17, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"I don't like Redfin.com. 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