Images of the Glenbrook Valley neighborhood in Houston, courtesy GlenbrookValley.org. Doing what I do, I get to know a LOT of realtors, and let me tell you: very few out there are like Robert Searcy. It was through Robert that I first became aware of Glenbrook Valley, a near-perfectly preserved example of 1950s/60s Americana that recently became Houston's first mid-century historic district and was named...

For residents of the small town of Healdsburg, California, the old Marshall House at 227 North Street had been -- until just a few years ago -- an object of great curiosity. At least since the 1950s, the long-neglected home had been in a sad state, it's foundation slowly sinking into the ground. Old-timers remember peeking into the house as children, believing it be haunted.   When Mark Goff & Phillip...

With every apple picking season I mentally retreat to the orchards of New York's historic Hudson Valley. It’s just such a serene place filled with old downtowns, cozy homes, and colorful fall foliage. So imagine my excitement to come across today’s Queen Anne fixer-upper in Newburgh (yes, team CIRCA is obsessed with Newburgh)! This house in the Washington Heights neighborhood sure packs a lot of charm,...

Amp up the charm in your Twitter feed with some crown molding and tin ceilings! If you're the type that craves an instantaneous old house fix, follow our tweets at @circahouses. See you...

Postcard courtesy of Shook Photos. Seriously, how cool is realtor Gayle Harvey? She grew up on an apple & beef operation and -- get this -- had her own beef & cattle herd before she was out of high school. Now THIS is a woman I want to sell me a farm! Fortunately for those looking, Gayle has her own real estate brokerage in Charlotteville, Virginia, where she eats, sleeps and breathes historic houses,...

Fact: I'm a total real estate junkie. If we get down to brass tacks, I started CIRCA Houses to justify the fact that I waste hours every day falling in love with properties I'll never have. As my husband can attest, I've been known to crawl into bed with the computer, drifting off into dreamland with visions of fixer-uppers dancing in my head. But it wasn't until last week that a real estate video actually...

Another Friday, another fixer-upper! And what a great piece of Midwestern history do I have to share with you today. An hour’s drive from Cedar Rapids, this Greek Revival beauty in Manchester, Iowa was built as a stagecoach inn in 1856. A stagecoach inn! I’m already hooked. Featuring 3 bedrooms and 2 baths, here are just some of the reasons why I love it....

The brisk fall months always have me dreaming of apple picking, hayrides, and walking through the rustling leaves sipping hot, mulled cider. And where better to partake in such things than in the rolling hills of Vermont? Someday I'll buy that beautiful old farmhouse and spend my days dreaming away on my sprawling front porch. When that day comes, I'm going to call Julianne McCarthy. She's CIRCA Houses'...

Today’s cute-as-a-button fixer-upper takes us to the warmer climes of the Deep South. Situated halfway between the Mississippi River and the capital of Jackson, this Queen Anne home in the town of Edwards features 3 bedrooms and 2 baths. Nothing short of adorable, here are just some of the reasons why we’re ready to make it our own....

From our tiny abodes in New York City, the staff of CIRCA Houses loves to dream about the City of Newburgh, NY. Located just two hours up the Hudson River, breathtaking waterfront mansions by the likes of Calvert Vaux and Andrew Jackson Downing are being sold for less than the cost of a Manhattan studio apartment. Newburgh is the next big thing - we can just feel it! - in no small part due to the efforts...

Historic house sellers -- set your stopwatches! You have until September 30th to list your houses on CIRCA for 90 days entirely free-of-charge. So gather 'em up and send them our way! We want your best, your most beautiful, your favorites. In exchange, we'll bend over backwards making your listings pop. Now really, how can you resist an offer like that? Listing is easy, just visit our HOW TO LIST page....

Any real estate agent can talk up the merits of an old house, but how many really practice what they preach? When we learned that Cape Cod realtor Lisa Hassler lives in a 186-year-old house built for sandwich glass factory workers, we knew she would be the perfect subject to kick-off our Realtor Spotlight series. With a degree in interior design, a killer blogging style and first-hand knowledge of how to...