Zillow going Big, Real Big
Here are the top RE Sites combining all properties running under the top brand names.
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04, 2011
Need a new search?
If you didn't find what you were looking for, try a new search!
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01, 2011
Zillow jumps to new, record highs
December yielded incredible results for property search upstart Zillow.com. They proudly reported that their property engine is hitting on all cylinders. On the traffic front, they saw a burst of traffic. Thanks in part to their partnership with Yahoo! and hundreds of local newspapers, 13 million consumers visited their website during the month of December. These are not only huge numbers, but they represent an impressive 77% growth over last year. For a venture-funded start up, they are on the right track. Along those lines, like their cross-town industry rival Trulia, Zillow posted a profit in 2010. They have officially [...]
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12, 2010
Zillow and Agent Ratings
WAV Group has been talking about Agent Ratings for a long time now. We published a white paper on the topic in December of 2008. Around the internet, everything gets rated - consumer products and services of every type. It was not a terribly hard forecast to imagine that someone would emerge to become the epicenter of the Agent Rating. There have been a number of successful efforts in Agent Ratings - perhaps the leader in the space has.been QualityCertified or QSC. They pioneered the landscape and have a methodology of insuring that real customers give real ratings. To my knowledge [...]
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09, 2010
Zillow updates faster than Trulia but leaves listing agent behind.
Since the introduction of Virtual Office Websites, I have picked up the habit of scheduling listing alerts. My interest is not only in keeping up with listings of comparable homes that would influence my homes’ value, but also to see how data moves to third party listing websites. Today’s new listing is 755 Via Laguna Vista, San Luis Obispo CA 93405 Copy and paste it into Zillow and Trulia and see what you get. Right now, you will see that the listing is not for sale on Trulia, but they have built a lovely landing page with deep information. Zillow [...]
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09, 2010
Trouble for Zillow
Our old friend LendingTree stopped showing up to conferences after agents and brokers clarified that they did not enjoy paying referral fees on their listing content. Now LendingTree has gone on the offensive to block Zillow from continuing their progress on building out their mortgage product. From CNBC.com LendingTree has sued Zillow and three other rivals, accusing them of infringing two patents for methods to help people obtain mortgage loans over the Internet. Adchemy, NexTag and QuinStreet were also named as defendants in the lawsuit filed Wednesday in the federal court in Charlotte, North Carolina. LendingTree, a unit of Tree.com, accused its rivals [...]
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04, 2010
Where HAR Goes, Zillow may soon follow
This is pure speculation. Nothing verified. Just idle thinking….. Typically when a leader in the MLS industry like the Houston Association of REALTORS sets out a new business strategy, if it works - many follow. As you may have heard, HAR is taking their Agent Ratings program to the next level. They started with QSC, and are now they are developing a solution that allows consumers to see which REALTORS have represented the most number of buyers and sellers in a given area (powered by transaction information from MLS data). The idea is that consumers will be able to see [...]
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04, 2010
Smarter Agent to sue Zillow, Trulia and others
Smarter Agent, provider of mobile search services for the real estate industry filed a law suit on March 26, 2010 in Delaware District Court to sue the following companies for infringement of their patent 35:271. Boopsie Inc. Classified Ventures LLC Hotpads Inc. IDX Inc. Move Inc. RealSelect Inc. Primedia Inc. Consumer Source Inc. Trulia Inc. Zillow Inc. ZipRealty Inc. Multifamily Technology Solutions Inc. dba MyNewPlace TRSoft Inc. dba Planetre […]
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04, 2009
Zillow is likely to become a new top competitor to realtor.com and yahoo
Do you know where your listings are going? Realtor.com and realestate.yahoo.com have been battling it out for the top spot in the nation for real estate property search. Now a rising contender is in the mix, zillow.com in a move that could break the virtual tie between zillow and trulia forever. An early secret to realtor.com was the extension of thier property search site to more than 100 other prominent domains - now zillow.com has answered by winning the business of more than 180 newspapers, drawing them in direct competition with the top search sites and especially Homefinder.com. This added [...]
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11, 2008
WAV Group to launch case study to evaluate Zillow
Piles and Piles of consumers are visiting Zillow every day to look at home values and browse listings. Sounds like a great place to advertise if you are an agent or broker, perhaps? Does anyone really know? A long time ago I learned that simple logic often leads to bad choices. In the simplest terms, if consumers are looking for real estate information on Zillow, and I advertise on Zillow, those customers will come to my website, convert into a lead, and use one of our agents to buy or sell their home. Seems like a logical conclusion and we [...]
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11, 2007
MLSs to consider sharing listings with Trulia, Zillow and others
MLSs are joining agents and brokers in the rush to contribute listings to online listing sites like Trulia, Google Base and others. There have been many spirited conversations regarding this trend and thought leadership is needed in this area. On the surface, the opportunity side of the equation seems pretty simple – send the listings and these companies will share them with visitors to their website for free. Listings are marketed to consumers expanding the reach and exposure to the properties available. Opportunity Costs – although most mls organizations can easily provision listing feeds, depending on the rules and regulations [...]
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09, 2026
IDX as We Know It Survives Thanks to MRED
MRED just prevailed in its legal battle with Zillow. In a preliminary hearing, MRED prevailed on its right to enforce its own data licensing agreement with Zillow
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08, 2026
The Creator Economy Has Arrived. Brokerages Need to Catch Up.
The creator economy has arrived in real estate, and some of the most valuable voices a brokerage has are already inside the company. By empowering creator agents instead of scripting them, brokerages can turn trusted local communities into a powerful, coordinated marketing engine.