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Announcing the 2007 REBA Winners!

By: PAUL JACKSON
January 15, 2007

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After counting, recounting, and counting some more — we’re pleased to announce the winners of Housing Wire’s first annual Real Estate Blogging Awards!

Each REBA winner will receive a $25 Visa gift card or a $25 iTunes gift card. We’re posting the top three in each category today. Sometime this weekend, we’ll release the full results for those curious to see how everything played out.

Category: Best Overall
Winner: The Housing Bubble Blog (download site badge here)
2nd place: Mortgage Fraud Blog
3rd place: Calculated Risk

Category: Brain Power
Winner: Calculated Risk (download site badge here)
2nd place: Piggington’s Econo-Almanac
3rd place: Nouriel Roubini’s Blog

Category: Best-Kept Secret
Winner: Bubbleinfo.com (download site badge here)
2nd place: OC Fliptrack
3rd place: New Jersey Real Estate Report (*write-in candidate)

Category: Best Corporate
Winner: Inman News Blog / Inman News (download site badge here)
2nd place: Hot Property / BusinessWeek.com
3rd place: Mortgage Matters / Bankrate.com

Category: Best Regional
Winner: Vancouver Housing Market Blog (download site badge here)
2nd place: Sacramento Land(ing)
3rd place: New Jersey Real Estate Report (*write-in candidate)

Category: Most Extreme
Winner: Housing Panic (download site badge here)
2nd place: Another FB
3rd place: The Housing Bubble Blog

Category: How-To
Winner: The Real Estate Tomato (download site badge here)
2nd place: Realty Blogging
3rd place: Future of Real Estate Marketing

Thanks to everyone who voted; watch for full results this weekend, and for news about how the REBAs will be run next year!


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