Topic: Real Estate
If there were ever an occasion for which the phrase "too soon" was appropriate, it's a real-estate broker using Whitney Houston's death as a selling point in trying to offload…
A family in Los Angeles appalled their neighbors by renting out the front of their house as billboard space to marketing company Brainiacs From Mars, which is paying close to…
It's been quite amazing how many finished Super Bowl spots, not just teasers, have been released online before this year's game. This morning we have two more 30-second spots—E*Trade's "Fatherhood"…
New ads from a brokerage firm in New York City aren't overly sophisticated in their pitch to young professional males. The message: Land the right apartment, and sleep with more…
U.S. home values are currently at an eight-year low, but in Silicon Valley, it appears that the recent tech bubble could be creating a housing bubble, too. Money from the recent…
Is Adzookie, a startup mobile ad firm, riding a wave of free publicity over its offer to pay people's mortgages in exchange for them turning their houses into giant ads?…
By now, you've heard of Rich Will Wanket (his real name!), the real-estate agent in Minneapolis who created the ad above, playing off his name's masturbatory connotations. We wrote…
This realtor ad from Rich Will Wanket (his real name—you can check his birth certificate) looks pretty old. But it's unlikely it's been surpassed in the intervening years by…
A Calgary condo project's sexist ads have been yanked after an offended actor raised a ruckus about them. And not without cause, judging by the copy on the poster…
With the economic crisis stalling growth on the home-buying front, the Canadian Real Estate Association has launched a campaign to educate consumers about how to work with CREA's greedy, blood-sucking…
