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I don't know the percentage, but in my area, many RE Brokers don't publish their listing to Zillow. I've heard as much as 40% of the listing don't show up on Zillow.
Zillow has made statements that they intend to replace the MLS system and therefore are competition to local RE agents and Brokers. Trulia has been owned by Zillow for the last few years, so not much difference between the two in my opinion.
I believe Realtor.com gets its listing off the MLS data, so it might have more than Zillow.
I don't know the percentage, but in my area, many RE Brokers don't publish their listing to Zillow. I've heard as much as 40% of the listing don't show up on Zillow.
Zillow has made statements that they intend to replace the MLS system and therefore are competition to local RE agents and Brokers. Trulia has been owned by Zillow for the last few years, so not much difference between the two in my opinion.
I believe Realtor.com gets its listing off the MLS data, so it might have more than Zillow.
Just my personal observation. Realtor.com listed properties that is "pending" whereas Zillow only updates the same properties after it closed escrow.
I am in SoCal so I believe most listing show up on Zillow/Redfin/Realtor as I suspect the listing agent wants to have many home-buyers to see the listing as possible. But I too was in a different city in another state and the MLS has its own website and do not share listing with Zillow. In that case, we go to the MLS website for info instead.
In addition to realtor.com and trulia.com, I'd suggest you look for your local MLS online site. What that site is and what it includes will depend on your area.
If you want to find FSBO's you're going to have to dig more via a number of FSBO sites in addition to Zillow. Not all FSBOs are knowledgeable enough to know they can put a listing on Zillow.
In my area, Realtor.com is very accurate, Zillow, Trulia, etc. are not. I get automatic emails from my agent when a house gets listed on the MLS that meets my criteria. I see the same on Realtor.com shortly thereafter. Realtor.com also lists contingent properties. The only homes I am missing on there would be FSBO.
Just my personal observation. Realtor.com listed properties that is "pending" whereas Zillow only updates the same properties after it closed escrow.
I am in SoCal so I believe most listing show up on Zillow/Redfin/Realtor as I suspect the listing agent wants to have many home-buyers to see the listing as possible. But I too was in a different city in another state and the MLS has its own website and do not share listing with Zillow. In that case, we go to the MLS website for info instead.
We're also in SoCal and for my searches, I haven't noticed much of a difference between Zillow and CRMLS.
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Originally Posted by chitown202020
WOndering if there is more out there than what I am seeing on the apps.
I've bought pocket listings and even sold one of our own properties off-market, so there are some out there. Where we are, I believe those listings often go out on a few mailing lists, so you'd want to have an agent that's well-networked.
In our area, Zillow has everything. Our agent sent us emails that hit our qualifications and I always had seen the house first on Zillow.
The main thing I don't like about Zillow is that it doesn't show Under Contract homes in our area (whereas Realtor app does). Zillow only shows when it's hit Pending status.
My house is under contract. Zillow, Redfin, and Trulia have all reflected the status of my home through the short process of "going live" and "Pending offer"
Realtor never showed my home as being on the market let alone show the updated photos and 3D walkthrough.
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I'm editing to add that we listed through Redfin so I would expect them to be very up to date on our home sale progress.
Last edited by RKDee; 09-03-2020 at 01:36 AM..
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We're also in SoCal and for my searches, I haven't noticed much of a difference between Zillow and CRMLS.
I am here in Southern California too. I am not an agent and have only a few months of experience of just looking at listings. I do not know much.
I see many listings in the GEMLS and some in the AVMLS and I think there are others too but CRMLS, GEMLS and AVMLS are the major ones. For the Los Angeles area the CRMLS will have most I think. There are currently four condominiums in Santa Clarita and they are all listed in CRISNet, whatever that is. So depending on what you want, you might miss a lot if you only look in the CRMLS.
I assume that the major real estate sites get their data from the various MLSs. That is the purpose of a MLS, correct? I use Redfin and I do not see anything anywhere else that is not in Redfin except maybe mobile homes being sold within the park by the owner.
Have an agent put you on a direct MLS auto email, forget Zillow and Redfin. Often You see the homes after they are sold if you depend on those 3rd party apps.
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