Zillow is already acting like a regular realtor and soliciting sellers - even those who are actively on the market, which is unethical. Content starts at the 38-second mark:
Zillow Gloves Are Off
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Zillow Offers
The talk about the cost of home-selling is reaching new heights, yet if you have a zillion-dollar marketing budget and brand recognition, you can get away with charging twice as much and get away with it. All they have to do is feature advertisements like this one...
Sprucing Up to Sell
Homeowners fixing up their homes to list this spring will have to decide where to put their time and money to get the most bang for their buck. Zillow has been there, and the practical tips and tricks their experts have learned after selling 10,000 homes could help...
Zillow & ShowingTime
Wouldn't it be great if they published the number of showings publicly? It would help buyers know how competitive the bidding will be (or not), and later it would help to qualify the comp. When pricing the next listing down the street, you never know if the sales...
Realtor MLS Club
Selling a house is different every time - it's truly the wild, wild west. Because there are no standard rules of engagement on how to sell a home, everyone does it differently. I had an agent accost me on why my offer was so low (it was full price), to which I said...
Zillow, 2021
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‘Not A Bubble’
An excerpt from this article: https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/money/2021/02/04/homes-sale-we-housing-bubble-prices-outstrip-wages/6671282002/ For Mark Stapp, a real estate professor at Arizona State University, what's going on in the real estate market right now is...
Top Markets in 2021
Zillow Survey Predicts Austin will be the Nation's Hottest Housing Market, Leading a Sunbelt Surge More affordable metros are replacing expensive coastal areas as top drivers of home value growth -- A panel of economists and real estate experts expect Austin to...
Zillow vs. Realtors
We wondered what might happen when Zillow changed from a search portal to a brokerage last week. Zillow showed us who's the boss. They deleted the last 50-100 sales from EVERY agent I checked, and ALL active listings were wiped off the agent profile. They also tweaked...
Zillow Increases Appreciation Forecast
In November, Zillow busted out of the pack of prognosticators and predicted around 7% appreciation for NSDCC zip codes over the next 12 months. They have revised again - now predicting that our North San Diego County coastal areas will appreciate at least 10%: La...
