Bugs, I agree with you on a certain level about the privacy factor, but I think that certain things being made public are justified. I am partial to making home pricing/purchasing information more public. I don’t like the dark clouds around home pricing activities that obfuscate the setting of prices. I think this is part of the reason for the rapid price markup we’ve seen in the past 5 years. If you complain about this, you must also complain about the publicly available information concerning home improvements, which to me are more invasive. You basically have to tell the city (and the public) every little thing that you want to do to your house, even if it doesn’t affect them.