According to Urban Turf, a DC real estate guide, the listing web site Redfin had the White House listed, of all things, “for sale by owner.” Yup, the 55,000 square foot presidential pad was listed for sale for a cool $10 million, with a price per square foot of $182.00.

On CBSNews.com Redfin released a statement regarding the data faux paus:

“At Redfin we want to show all the homes for sale. So in addition to showing you homes for sale from MRIS, the MLS in DC, we also get for sale by owner homes for sale from Zillow, ForSaleByOwner.com and Oodle,” the statement said. “Oodle in turn pulls for sale by owner homes from a number of different sources. Turns out one of those sources, Owners.com, shows the White House listed for sale.”

At least the company acknowledged the comedic value in the whole situation and stated that the White House would be a “steal” for $10 million.

With a pretty thorough understanding of real estate listing web sites and their data collection methods, which many times include aggregating data off other web sites; it is understandable how the mistake occurred. But perhaps it gives further credibility to complaints about accuracy within these online listing services.