The Moneysmartz real estate blog category includes blogs about real estate trends, economics, news, opinion, and urban living. This category is also a catchall for blogs not fitting into categories such as real estate investing, real estate bubble, and regional real estate. The Moneysmartz real estate blog category is most helpful if you are looking for real estate news and trends or a diverse perspective on the real estate industry. Because blogs in this category are generally more eclectic, be prepared to dig deeper to find posts of relevance to your concerns.

• Calculated Risk - By a senior executive, retired from a public company, with a background in investing, finance and economics.

• grow-a-brain - The original real estate blog.

• Hot Property - The real story on real estate from Business Week Online.

• Housing.com - Housing news, analysis, and opinion.

• housingfinance - Deals, subsidies, gossip, taxes, and sneaky fine print in the world of rental real estate, from the editors and writers of Apartment Finance Today and Affordable Housing Finance magazines.

• Inman News - Real estate news and advice for buyers, sellers and investors.

• Matrix - Items of interest or relevance in the real estate economy.

• Counter Intelligence: The Real Estate Cafe Weblog - The Real Estate Cafe weblog is a consumer advocate's guide to saving money and recreating the residential estate industry online.

• Real Estate Directory - Real Estate Directory of Realtor websites and blogs.

• The Foreclosure Report - Real Estate foreclosure news and information.

• The Real Estate Blog - Real estate happenings, prices, trends, and notes of interest.

• The Real Estate Bloggers - Real estate news and information.

• The Walk-Through - New York Times Real Estate Blog - New York Times real estate blog.

• Triple Mint - Online review dedicated to new urban residential development, design, and living.

• Urban Trekker Blog - Tracking urban living and real estate trends in the nation and Washington, DC.

• Vacation Home Insider - Savvy news about second homes, vacation homes, fractionals and resorts from a professional reporter.

• Zillow Blog - Blog of online real estate service Zillow.com.