Real Estate Porn or How You Can Obsess on Real Estate Data
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Real Estate Porn is a term popping up more and more. The obsession people have on voyeuring homes, digging into all of the online data sources, and finding out all the details on your neighbors (or celebrity’s) homes. It is easier to do with tools such as Zillow, Trulia, Realtor.com, and many others.
Heck, this site is a purveyor of Real Estate Porn. We give you information that only the most dialed in real estate brokers would have had 10 years ago. Now you can head over to the Real Estate Bloggers and dig into tons of information every day.
He’s typing in your address as we speak. He’s scanning satellite photos, homing in on your bedroom window. No, we’re not talking about phone records. But your colleague, your boss, maybe even the intern – any one of them could, right this minute, be nosing into your net worth.
“I call it real estate porn”, says Bradley Inman of Inman.com. “You know, real estate’s become an obsession.”
With one click of the mouse anyone can find out the value of your home or what you paid for it years ago. Today, they have yet another way to do it with the launch of move.com — the latest in a series of sites providing a wealth of information about real estate to Web surfers. via MSNBC.com.

