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My Agent sents me a client login to MLS listings based on the criteria I selected. This updates every 10 mins, and has the most info of any of the listings.
I use Zillow, Realtor, TRulia, etc as secondary, but they always lag behind.
ListHub no longer maintains your Z and T listings. Like Sean says, it is up to you.
When Zillow shows the home as 'sold' you would think their software would be smart enough to interface with listing data to eliminate stale listings, unless of course they are happy to carry homes like this example to increase their claimed inventory of active homes. Also, when Agents pay Zillow $400 a month you think there would be a briefing that explains the Agents obligation to change the status on Zillow to 'sold' rather than Agents believing its a Z or T obligation to update status when sold.
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Originally Posted by 1insider
Unless there are complaints I imagine ZT is OK with the increased traffic. When there are complaints they probably treat those the same way they treat bad reviews for valued advertising agents or complaints from Surbiton about his Zestimate.
I doubt I am the only person complaining about Zillows inaccurate Zestimates. More interesting is Zillow sticking their corporate head in the sand is hardly going to enhance their reputation as a company that consumers value, and long term they will have to adopt a more socially responsible approach in dealing with inaccurate Zestimates, or face some form of imposed regulation eg a DoNotZestimate opt out as a minimum.
I don't care for their advertising, promoting socially liberal themes like interracial marriages and homosexuals, which represent a tiny fraction of the populace.
It seems to be a new trend in advertising, and I suspect just like with Hollywood, there are attempts to desensitize people to ideas they wish to promote.
As to their over all product, I think their estimated home prices are now starting to be on the high side. Just a few years back I wouldn't have said that about Zillow.
When Zillow shows the home as 'sold' you would think their software would be smart enough to interface with listing data to eliminate stale listings, unless of course they are happy to carry homes like this example to increase their claimed inventory of active homes. Also, when Agents pay Zillow $400 a month you think there would be a briefing that explains the Agents obligation to change the status on Zillow to 'sold' rather than Agents believing its a Z or T obligation to update status when sold.
I doubt I am the only person complaining about Zillow's inaccurate Zestimates. More interesting is Zillow sticking their corporate head in the sand is hardly going to enhance their reputation as a company that consumers value, and long term they will have to adopt a more socially responsible approach in dealing with inaccurate Zestimates, or face some form of imposed regulation eg a DoNotZestimate opt out as a minimum.
The Zestimates were annoying when I was selling, but the larger issue was that neither Trulia or Zillow were usable when I was actually in the market re-locating. I really liked the app interface, but the data was just wrong. The only choice seems to be to contact an agent to check the MLS or use Realtor.com that does keep it updated.
We bought our house on May 5th for $295,000. It is on Zillow as having sold that date for $45,000. That may have been the lot price 12 years ago but certainly not what we paid for it.
we sold a house 3 years ago and now they are selling it . they reduced the price from the original asking price last month and for weeks after , zillow had the un-reduced old price .
now it says house no longer for sale only on zillow , it is for sale and is still listed everywhere else at the corrected price .
I'm in the market right now to purchase a home, and between all of the sites, I find Zillow to be the absolute most user friendly. Trulia is a close second and has a few features that I use from time to time as well. Realtor.com is missing a lot of the useful data found on Zillow and Trulia, and RedFin is terrible.
I keep seeing threads on here, posted by realtors mostly, bashing Zillow. I can only guess that this is because they aren't placing themselves in the shoes of their buyers and figuring out what it is that buyers actually want.
Are there some old listings? Sure. But even on realtor.com, there are listings that are for all intents and purposes "sold". I recently called a listing agent on a home I saw (on all three sites) and there were multiple offers and they weren't accepting any new offers. Zillow's fault? Nope.
Agents are just struggling to remain relevant in the age of openly accessible listing data. And honestly, they are really starting to sound whiny about it.
Unless there are complaints I imagine ZT is OK with the increased traffic. When there are complaints they probably treat those the same way they treat bad reviews for valued advertising agents or complaints from Surbiton about his Zestimate.
The agent may be legally or civilly liable for failing to maintain an ad.
Zillow's poor performance is probably not a defense.
We bought our house on May 5th for $295,000. It is on Zillow as having sold that date for $45,000. That may have been the lot price 12 years ago but certainly not what we paid for it.
Maybe you can use that in your Tax Appraisal Protest :-)
User Friendly Until You are Actually in the Market
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Originally Posted by NYCresident2014
I'm in the market right now to purchase a home, and between all of the sites, I find Zillow to be the absolute most user friendly. Trulia is a close second and has a few features that I use from time to time as well. Realtor.com is missing a lot of the useful data found on Zillow and Trulia, and RedFin is terrible.
I keep seeing threads on here, posted by realtors mostly, bashing Zillow. I can only guess that this is because they aren't placing themselves in the shoes of their buyers and figuring out what it is that buyers actually want.
Are there some old listings? Sure. But even on realtor.com, there are listings that are for all intents and purposes "sold". I recently called a listing agent on a home I saw (on all three sites) and there were multiple offers and they weren't accepting any new offers. Zillow's fault? Nope.
Agents are just struggling to remain relevant in the age of openly accessible listing data. And honestly, they are really starting to sound whiny about it.
I agree about user being friendly, but when you put out inaccurate data and know it is, I think you deserve bashing. If I am just browsing "for fun" and not really in the market, they seem to be good tools. The minute I actually am a serious shopper, I can't use either. At least Realtor data comes straight form the MLS as does Red Fin since they are a broker.
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