Hat tip to SM for sending in Zillow's latest version on the best dates to put your home on the market. San Diego is the only town in America that gets started this early - let's go! https://www.zillow.com/research/best-time-to-list-2018-19215/ Not only is now...
Zillow started their 'Coming Soon' feature in the summer of 2014, so by now the gimmick is maturing. Agents have worked every angle of it, and consumers have seen it all too. Everybody comes to their own conclusions. Here's how one consumer described it to me...
This post was generally positive about Zillow's future, but a commenter left this remark about Zillow puffing their counts: Interesting that you repeatedly quote 'according to management' - did it cross your mind that Zillow management exaggerate performance with over...
Five years ago, Zillow predicted that the ZHVI would increase 22% by 4Q17. At the time, it seemed a bit optimistic. Since then, the national index rose 32%, and the San Diego index rose 45%! Currently, thirteen of the 20 cities followed in SD County are at all-time...
For those who are putting the finishing touches on their own 2018 forecast, here's how close the Zillow Group guesses have been: Local ZHVI-Appreciation Forecasts Town 2015 Forecast Actual 2016 Forecast Actual 2017 Forecast Actual 2018 Forecast Carlsbad +2.7% +4.8%...
Dough sent in this change in his zestimate of his Carlsbad Aviara tract house - almost a quarter-million increase in the last 30 days! The accuracy of the zestimates haven't been getting any better, but think of the influence this could have on sellers and buyers!...
There’s a wealth of data on home buyers, sellers and renters in this year’s Zillow Group Report on Consumer Housing Trends – a self-administered study that gathered information between May 17 and June 5, 2017 from a total of 13,125 key household decision-makers....
The guy who started the StopZillow campaign wants to build a new real estate portal which would be controlled by realtors - he discusses the details here: https://youtu.be/rv2SiGrw870?t=2m47s An excerpt from the leadership team's email announcing that the pre-launch...
Home values continue to climb, passing $200,000 in June for the first time ever. A panel of more than 100 real estate economists and experts expect that trend will continue – while they say, on average, that there’s a 52 percent probability of the next recession...
Spencer took a crack at Redfin yesterday, and more: LINK An excerpt: Zillow Group CEO Spencer Rascoff isn’t worried about the threat of newly-public Redfin — but he thinks the rest of the real estate industry should be. He made that clear during a conference call...
