Thu 7 Dec 2006
Well, I’m sure last to the party on this one. It’s after midnight, I just got home, and look what’s hit the fan…..
Reading everyone else’s comments, it seems that everything’s already been said and I hate to be repetitive, but I will point out that a variation of the “Make Me Move” feature has already been tried on another website, with not any publicized success, and the opposite of that feature is offered on Reply, where they allow a Buyer to make an unsolicited offer on an unlisted property. Again, no published success rate for that. If it WAS working, I’m sure they’d have some process to get the word out.
Some commentators have been talking about this being the dawn of a national MLS, but again, Zillow’s going to have to get a feed from each and every MLS to make that work, and I doubt that will happen.
By relying on individuals to input, to keep their listings accurate, they also have to rely on individuals to REMOVE their listings when sold. If they don’t keep up on it, they’ll have an unusable database full of expired and sold listings, like Yahoo Real Estate.
Other than those few things, I’d have to say I like what I see and look forward to exploring the new features Zillow has to offer. Knowledge is power, after all.
December 7th, 2006 at 1:38 am
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December 7th, 2006 at 1:44 am
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December 7th, 2006 at 9:22 am
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December 7th, 2006 at 11:00 am
They know when houses are sold, so they won’t have grossly expired listings, just listings that may have sold in the past week to month.
December 7th, 2006 at 11:06 am
Without a real-time feed, you’re still dealing with human error and/or laziness in keeping those listings up to date. Another problem, if using feeds and scraping multiple sites, is that the same house can be listed for sale multiple times. This seems to be the main problem with Yahoo Real Estate, the multiple listings of the same house for sale.
December 7th, 2006 at 11:12 am
Zillow adds Homes For Sale…
As the rest of the blogosphere has already reported, Zillow has now added a feature to it’s site that allows agents and home owner’s to post their homes for sale on their website. While this was something that everyone had……
December 7th, 2006 at 1:27 pm
I was going to call you Marlow, but it was late. Next time
I agree with your statement regarding multiple feeds and the problems inherent. That’s even been a bane to Google base.
As I understand it, the listings not updated will be removed.
December 7th, 2006 at 2:26 pm
[…] And actually, I did intentionally plan to not write about Zillow’s news. I mean, why bother? Seems every real estate blogger on the planet is discussing it. What more could I possibly add? […]
December 7th, 2006 at 3:23 pm
It requires that you update every 7 days by responding to an email, or the listing is expunged…as I understand it.
December 7th, 2006 at 10:43 pm
Hi, it’s David G from Zillow
Ardell and jf are correct — we maintain the freshness of listings posted on Zillow by requiring that you confirm that the posting’s status is accurate. We do this every 7 days via e-mail (if there have been no status changes). It’s as simple as clicking a link in an e-mail we send you.
Marlow -
I enjoyed talking with you today!
December 8th, 2006 at 5:42 am
I think the Make Me Move is for fun, as Ardell jested about the guy with his 6 pack in his double wide asking for 1.5M. I think eyeballs are the point and Zillow will certainly get lots of them.
December 8th, 2006 at 8:42 am
So, it’s a little like Craigslist. That’s cool….
December 8th, 2006 at 12:30 pm
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