In keeping with today's theme on the RSS Reader, I present some of the best posts from this blog over the final six months of 2006 (the blog was up and running earlier in the year but I didn't really start writing seriously until July.)

This is post number 204 - I'll take it down to the best five:

1) Fun With Bubbleheads. A discussion on the so-called real estate bubble, which led to a firestorm on a pair of housing bubble blogs.

2) Do Buyers Care Who Pays their Agent? An argument in defending value with service and attracting a long-term repeat clientele versus offering rebates to attract one-time business.

   2a) A related post on my Active Rain blog about Pandora and the buyers' commission.

3) Procuring Cause and You. A quick primer on procuring cause and how it applied to one erstwhile home buyer.

4) Again from Active Rain - Bigfoot, the Open MLS and Other Myths.

5) Zillow Listings - the first taste is free.

Honorable mention: the not-consistent enough series on absorption rates here in the Valley. I've tracked it consistently but missed a few weeks of posting when other items (such as actual real estate) got in the way.

What was your favorite? There's no mechanism for a write-in vote, but feel free to post your favorite in the comments below. I'll be adding a list of favorite posts on the right-side of the blog within the next week and all feedback is appreciated.

Have a safe New Year's ... we'll see you before kickoff tomorrow morning.

Favorite Blog Post of 2006
(c) Jonathan Dalton, 2006 / Jonathan Dalton's Arizona Homes