Taking the “Gold Medal” was Rob Leroy for his 5 Fun Facts About Short Sales and REOs over at The Real Estate Novelist!

The September CoRE will be hosted by the one and only Kris Berg, at her fantabulous San Diego Home Blog.

Submit your best September article here!

(submission deadline Sept 26. Midnight Pacific time)

See the FAQ for more info about the Carnival of Real Estate.

We’re working on some cool new things at Zillow that keep us very busy. We’ve come to the decision that we can no longer give CoRE the attention it deserves. Rather than retire it, we started bouncing around some ideas about how we can place CoRE in the public domain and turn it over to someone who can breathe into it some new life and keep shining a weekly light on the best in real estate blogging content.

Here’s what we’ve decided to do. If you’ve ever hosted a CoRE, you now have the opportunity to submit to Zillow an essay on why you should become the owner and operator of the Carnival of Real Estate. The rules are simple. Tell us what you would do to keep the CoRE in the stream of real estate content. How would you use it to better help real estate bloggers showcase their content? There will be very few strings attached. We will turn over the ownership of the domain and allow the new host to export the blog in it’s entirety to your own host. We will ask that you maintain a couple of Zillow widgets in the sidebar and that you maintain the basic principles outlined by the blog carnival founders. The idea is to find an enthusiastic person that can take it to the next level.

Here’s how it will work.

1. Essays will be judged by a panel of judges from Zillow and others in the real estate industry. We’ll be announcing the judges in an upcoming post.
2. Judging will be based on the best plan for long term success with CoRE and how you will provide value to the blogging community.
3. Upon selection, the winner will complete an agreement to have the blog and domain transferred to his or her domain.
4. Essay submissions open to previous CoRE hosts.

Send your essay to mprice AT zillow DOT com. Deadline for entries is May 15, 2010. Good Luck!

If you have hosted the Carnival of Real Estate in the past, stay tuned. We will be announcing something that you just may want to be a part of. Sharpen your writing skills and get ready.

If you want to be considered for the next edition please submit your best post by the afternoon of Sunday, Feb 14th (you can also submit via Twitter as well by tweeting a link and tagging it with the hashtag #carnivalofre). Are you a real estate blogger and would you like to host a future edition or take a more active role in administration of the CoRE? If so, get instructions on how to do so here. Please check the complete FAQ list if you have other questions as to how to participate.

We are currently looking for hosts for upcoming CoRE dates. Email mprice AT zillow dot com if you are interested.

If you want to be considered for the next edition please submit your best post by the afternoon of Sunday, Feb 14th (you can also submit via Twitter as well by tweeting a link and tagging it with the hashtag #carnivalofre). Are you a real estate blogger and would you like to host a future edition or take a more active role in administration of the CoRE? If so, get instructions on how to do so here. Please check the complete FAQ list if you have other questions as to how to participate.

Next Week’s CoRE will be hosted by Ben Roberts at TheExitPro.com. We are currently looking for hosts for upcoming CoRE dates. Email mprice AT zillow dot com if you are interested.

If you want to be considered for the next edition please submit your best post by Sunday, Jan 31 (you can also submit via Twitter as well by tweeting a link and tagging it with the hashtag #carnivalofre). Are you a real estate blogger and would you like to host a future edition or take a more active role in administration of the CoRE? If so, get instructions on how to do so here. Please check the complete FAQ list if you have other questions as to how to participate.

The CoRE will be taking a holiday hiatus until January 11th when Mike Price hosts it at the ML Broadcast Blog — if you want to be considered for the next edition please submit your best post by Sunday, January 10 (you can also submit via Twitter as well by tweeting a link and tagging it with the hashtag #carnivalofre). Are you a real estate blogger and would you like to host a future edition or take a more active role in administration of the CoRE? If so, get instructions on how to do so here. Please check the complete FAQ list if you have other questions as to how to participate.

The next edition will be hosted at Mortgage Loan Place on Monday December 21st. If you want to be considered for next week please submit your best post by Sunday, December 20 (you can submit via Twitter as well by tweeting a link and tagging it with the hashtag #carnivalofre). Are you a real estate blogger and would you like to host a future edition or take a more active role in administration of the CoRE? If so, get instructions on how to do so here. Please check the complete FAQ list if you have other questions as to how to participate.

The next edition will be hosted at Geek Estate Blog on Monday December 14th. If you want to be considered for next week please submit your best post by Sunday, December 13 (you can submit via Twitter as well by tweeting a link and tagging it with the hashtag #carnivalofre). Are you a real estate blogger and would you like to host a future edition or take a more active role in administration of the CoRE? If so, get instructions on how to do so here. Please check the complete FAQ list if you have other questions as to how to participate.

The next edition will be hosted at River Banks to Cornfields on Monday December 7th. If you want to be considered for next week please submit your best post by Sunday, December 6 (you can submit via Twitter as well by tweeting a link and tagging it with the hashtag #carnivalofre). Are you a real estate blogger and would you like to host a future edition or take a more active role in administration of the CoRE? If so, get instructions on how to do so here. Please check the complete FAQ list if you have other questions as to how to participate.