Zillow’s CEO talks up market conditions.
Spencer’s Housing Outlook
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Silo Living
Many interesting aspects of this video - including the fact that Phoenix has a terrific climate for incorporating outdoor living spaces:
Zillow Dominance
It is Zillow and their high-spending agents vs. everyone else now. http://www.investors.com/research/the-new-america/zillow-starts-bidding-war-for-prime-real-estate-between-agents/ Zillow has a strategy to help accelerate the real estate industry's evolution to the...
Screaming Towards Single Agency
Zillow and our local MLS provider Sandicor reached the Great Impasse a year or two ago when they couldn't agree on terms under which Sandicor would keep feeding our listings automatically to Zillow. Agents complain all the time about Zillow's inaccuracy, but...
Zillow Predictions for 2017
It's that time again - experts making predictions for next year! We might as well start with the big kahuna, whose predictions are a tad vague: Here is Zillow's look ahead at the 2017 housing market: Zillow's 2017 Predictions Cities will focus on denser development of...
The Zillow March Continues…
The reason the talks broke down between Zillow and our local Sandicor MLS is because Zillow wants to keep and own the data we provide. The board members turned them down, but Zillow has made deals with most brokerages independently, which probably include them keeping...
Zillow TV
Zillow started out with entertaining TV commercials, and now they have added an HGTV-like series on YouTube called Open House Obsessed: Do you get the feeling that they will keep spending money until they completely dominate the real estate world?
Zillow Forum
A brief 10-hour Zillow conference kicked off yesterday. In his opening remarks, Spencer was his usual effervescent self, and assured the crowd that the Zillow dominance is bigger and better than ever: Unique users of Zillow and Trulia were up to 171 million in May....
Sandicor Divorce
The paperwork has been filed to dissolve Sandicor, our local MLS company. http://www.nsdcar.com/announcements/mls-faq.pdf A bitter fight among the three partners has been brewing all year. Two of the three associations of realtors, NSDCAR and PSAR, want to join the...
Zillow 2017 Forecasts
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It's that time of the year - the 2017 forecasts are starting to roll out! Zillow has been conservative about our local markets. For the most part, the actual appreciation of the Zillow Home Value Index has been...
