{"id":6472,"date":"2009-01-09T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=6472"},"modified":"2009-01-09T11:12:43","modified_gmt":"2009-01-09T18:12:43","slug":"zillows-zindex-of-historic-bedrock-shows-significant-gains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/6472\/zillows-zindex-of-historic-bedrock-shows-significant-gains\/","title":{"rendered":"Zillow’s Zindex of historic Bedrock shows significant gains"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rubbles up, Flintstones down. Is Fred facing foreclosure?<\/h3>\n

SEATTLE, Jan. 9 \/PRNewswire\/ -- It's a proud day in Bedrock as the new Zillow Zindex reveals that home prices in that historic city are up 2.5% for the fourth quarter of 2008. Bucking the trend for many American communities, Bedrock seems to be benefitting from a mid-century-modern nostalgia. \"Face it,\" says Sam Slagheap, Grand Poobah of the Bedrock Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes, \"it's the architecture.\"<\/p>\n

Bedrock notables Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble both saw gains in the Zestimates for their homes, with Rubble seeing the bigger increase -- 2.8%. The Flintstone home grew in value by a more modest 2.3%.<\/p>\n

Even so, there are whispers in Bedrock that the Flintstones could be facing foreclosure. Due to a labor dispute with Mr. Slate, Fred Flintstone has not worked in months. And county records indicate that the family may have encumbered the home for more than its present value.<\/p>\n

\"That's a condition we at Zillow call 'underwater,'\" said Dr. Stan Humphries, Zillow's vice president of data and analytics. \"We like to use that term because it gets better headlines than 'upside-down.'\"<\/p>\n

The Zillow Zindex of Bedrock is one of many recent press sensations concocted by Zillow.com, the Seattle-based real estate start-up funded by advertising but powered by sensational, albeit utterly mindless gossip.<\/p>\n

Other recent revelations from the Zillow press release team:<\/p>\n

* The White House, which is not and has never been listed for sale, could be worth as much as $308,058,237.19 if it were. And as huge as that imaginary number might be, and as carefully-extracted as it must have been from a Zillow statistician's rectum, nevertheless that number would have been even $23 million higher a year ago. And while reporters might be wondering how far 308 million dollar bills would stretch, if you placed them end-to-end, Zillow's crack team of mathematicians-on-crack have taken on an even more impressive challenge: How much would the White House be worth on Jupiter?<\/p>\n

* Ever wonder which celebrity Americans might want to live next door to, if there were no such thing as physics, economics and burly security details? Zillow didn't just Read more<\/a><\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rubbles up, Flintstones down. Is Fred facing foreclosure? SEATTLE, Jan. 9 \/PRNewswire\/ — It’s a proud day in Bedrock as the new Zillow Zindex reveals that home prices in that historic city are up 2.5% for the fourth quarter of 2008. 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