Richard has a new listing in the Stone Canyon gated community high in the hills of San Marcos. We've contemplated just being one-story specialists, but there aren't enough of them coming up for sale! We also have it as a Coming Soon listing on Zillow....
We just cut our Zillow advertising back to the minimum. At the beginning of the year, we made the plunge and took on about 18% of the Encinitas territory. We definitely got more calls! Here are the incoming calls and emails per month - total is 157: The best...
They don't have a direct feed from our MLS, but they give themselves the highest 4-star rating for San Diego? Median error = half the San Diego zestimates are wrong by more than 6.2% Zillow, the leading real estate information and home-related marketplace, today...
Asserting themselves as housing's primary resource:
Zillow has come out with their analysis of when the best time to list a house in each metro area. I scoffed at the accuracy factor in my video, but Zillow is large enough that the headline is all that matters - and people like to hear a date that confirms their...
The San Diego Case-Shiller Index showed 7.2% appreciation for 2015, but can we break that down further? The Zillow version (assuming these are more accurate than their zestimates!): Zillow ranked ZIP codes based on their median home value in January 2015, and grouped...
Our regular commenter elbarcosr backed me up on how wacky the zestimates have been lately. They seem to be getting worse, which is hard to believe. Being a Zillow homer now, I thought I better look into it. Let's serve up a nice big softball. Certainly the zestimates...
Zillow's new video format leaves a lot to be desired - no audio, no zoom, and no graphics. Here I am commenting on my latest Zillow video while watching it on my computer screen:
Here's a great reason to list your home with Jim the Realtor - Zillow is giving 'special preference' to listings by Premier Agents that feature a video tour. Hopefully this will help bring home video tours into the forefront of real estate marketing. It is time for...
The Zillow tagline this year is that they have the best agents - Spence says it twice in a row here. Nobody else in the business gets as much exposure as him, so we should keep hearing it, which should cause more consumer trust and engagement - with Zillow agents....
