Property News · June 28, 2016

If I lived in that house: my addiction to the fantasy of online real estate


In the midst of peak moving season, Melody Warnick ponders her obsession with real estate websites that are constructed to elicit desire for a new realityMy friend Sarah was scrolling through listings of homes on the real estate app Zillow when she experienced the homebuyer’s equivalent of a meet-cute. There, in full-color photos, was her dream house. Acreage for fruit trees! Big bedrooms for all three kids! Giddy, Sarah called the listing agent, and five minutes after being let inside, she knew. This was it. Her house. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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