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Zillow.com Announces Broker Advisory BoardCreated by: John Reilly, e-PRO, Educator, San Diego, CA Date: Jul 19, Number of Replies: 2 |
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Zillow recently announced that they have appointed 10 influential real estate leaders to its Broker Advisory Board to provide counsel on existing Zillow services for the real estate industry, and evaluate ideas for future products and services.
Zillow® has quickly grown its number of real estate industry partners since the launch of its listings feed program in November 2007, with nearly 3 million for-sale listings today, and hundreds of prominent listings partners. More than five million unique users visit Zillow every month, with 90 percent owning a home, and two-thirds buying or selling now, or in the next one to two years.
The members of Zillow's Broker Advisory Board are 10 influential leaders in the real estate industry who are actively involved in running their respective companies: Steve Baird, President/CEO of Baird & Warner; Ken Baris, President of Jordan Baris; Bob Blount, CEO of RE/MAX Allegiance; Sherry Chris, President and CEO of Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate, LLC; Craig Cuyar, SVP & Chief Information Officer for the Realogy Franchise Group; Dan Elsea, President of Real Estate One; Pat Lashinsky, CEO and President of ZipRealty; Mike Montsko, President of Weichert Lead Network; Harley Rouda, Jr., CEO of Real Living; and Mark Woodroof, Managing Partner for Prudential Gary Greene.
"In selecting our Broker Advisory Board, we wanted a range of different types of companies represented-both franchise and independent, large and small, national and regional," said Jorrit Van der Meulen, Zillow's vice president of partner relations. "We asked people whom we know to be leaders in the industry, and we believe this Board will help us in planning and building our products and services in a way that serves the real estate community to our full potential."
The Zillow Broker Advisory Board members will meet with Van der Meulen and Zillow's partner relations team multiple times each year, both at Zillow's headquarters in Seattle and elsewhere.
John
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Posted by: Ronny Geenen Licensed Real Estate Agent, Glendora, CA Date: Jul 20 |  |
The Sunday LA Times just published in their Real Estate section an article about RE Internet Data sites.
Here is one interesting item when they did search for 3+ bedrooms homes on the market in Santa Monica.
Zillow shows 168 listed homes are available.
HomeGain.com: 142 homes, but it depend on the Realtor subscriber.
ZipRealty.com 126 listings
RealEstate.yahoo.com: 107 listings
Realtor.com: 103 listings
RealEstate.msn.com: 103 listings (link to Realtor.com)
Re-max.com: 91 listings
Trulia.com: 77 listings
ColdwellBanker.com: 96 listings
RealEstate.aol.com: 49 listings
And the winner is...................................!
RG
Glendora, CA 91741
Http://CaFoothillsRealEstate.com
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Posted by: Judi Bryan Licensed Real Estate Broker, Carol Stream, IL Date: Jul 21 |  |
Zillow shows 168 listed homes are available.
HomeGain.com: 142 homes, but it depend on the Realtor subscriber.
ZipRealty.com 126 listings
RealEstate.yahoo.com: 107 listings
Realtor.com: 103 listings
RealEstate.msn.com: 103 listings (link to Realtor.com)
Re-max.com: 91 listings
Trulia.com: 77 listings
ColdwellBanker.com: 96 listings
RealEstate.aol.com: 49 listings
And the winner is...................................!
RG
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I'd be curious about what was REALLY measured (the devil is always in the details).
I did a basic search in one of my local areas, and the first place I looked was at MLS...then Zillow. This is what I saw:
1. The first listing in the results(and I restricted my search by CITY, ST, SINGLE FAMILY properties only, excluded "make me move") was that, despite the fact I requested that I get properties in a particular CITY, several of the homes (about 15%) were NOT in that city at all. some were actually ATTACHED PROPERTIES (duplexes, townhomes, etc)...this first one, for example, is a LISTED property, in MLS in the ATTACHED listings, showed up in Zillow's results in their SINGLE FAMILY listings results.
2. The very next listing showed up as "4 days on Zillow", again, was an MLS listed property (on Zillow it showed up with the listing agent info, so certainly I could verify the listing info)....the property was listed in September for $259,900, reduced to $254,900 in December, Closed in March, 2008! It's on Zillow's results as a current property for sale at $259,900 (in other words, a price it HAD NOT BEEN LISTED FOR SINCE DECEMBER OF 2007!!!)
3. Listing #4 was a condo complex unit...again, I "restricted" my search results to SINGLE FAMILY properties only.
Without spending a lot of time on this, Zillow appears to take the NUMBERS GAME approach...with little regard to accuracy of the data (and giving the consumer results based on WHAT THE CONSUMER IS ASKING FOR)..Just so the NUMBERS look impressive.
To complete your phrase, Ronny..."And the winner is....................!" DEFINITELY NOT THE CONSUMER LOOKING FOR VALID RESULTS!!!!! Getting LOTS of data is not the point....getting THE RIGHT data is the point!!!!
"GIMME A BREAK!!!!" about sums it up!
JudiB
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