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 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 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?
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....
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...
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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...
If you click through to the YouTube version, you'll see other school-bus home documentaries. The difference is that Zillow brings the glossy high-production to the film-making, and adds another unique clip to their diverse video library:
Hello San Diego agents! Zillow has been taking it to us for ten years, in spite of regular discussion about how something needs to be done. Our NSDCAR president moderated the MLS Symposium today, and with good intention - let's inform/frighten the agents about the...
Zillow is the latest to suggest that the 'market' might be slowing. But looking at their own graph, it looks like the monthly percent change begins to decline every year at the end of summer. The second graph also shows that sales are at a new peak - if it fell off a...
Attention Premier Agents - wondering where your money is going? http://nypost.com/2016/07/12/real-estate-ceo-ironically-overpays-for-his-own-18m-home/ The next time you’re surfing popular real estate listings site Zillow for a new home and stumble across a “Zestimate”...
