The Residential Specialist

JUNE 23, 2020

Across the country, more agents are utilizing open houses, thanks to the inclusion of open house marketing on the MLS, which then pushes that information out to sites like Zillow, Trulia and Redfin. An increasingly common tactic for remote buyers is to have a local agent tour the home and broadcast the tour over a video chat service.

Technology 52

Technology Agents MLS Inspection 52

Marco Santarelli

AUGUST 26, 2020

Even with the market virtually shutting down, there isn't a great drop in the open house attendance or sales activity. In July the median prices of closed sales in King County increased to $670,000 (up 7.2% The trend for median days on market in Seattle, WA has gone down since last month, and slightly down since last year.

Marketing 141

Marketing Investor Sales As-is 141

Marco Santarelli

AUGUST 18, 2020

The shortage of demand and an increase in the supply component for housing will push the prices down. Condo listings also were down from year-ago levels, but much more modestly so, sliding 2.1 Let us look at the price trends recorded by Zillow (a real estate database company) over the past few years. Graph Credits: Zillow.

Marketing 124

Marketing Purchase and sale agreement Investor Sales 124

GeekEstate

JANUARY 12, 2023

When capital was nearly free for corporations, products and services not feasible in normal environments became feasible. My services are no longer required. Conversational customer service and sales bots will actually become tolerable. In fact, the impact of the Inflation Reduction Act will reverberate for years to come.

MLS 62

MLS Banks Technology Equity 62

Notorious ROB

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In my review of Opendoor’s Q3 earnings , I talked at some length about this new 3P Platform and said: Under the rules today, Opendoor Exclusives — whether 1P or 3P — end up on Zillow’s second tab. Zillow cannot display those homes on the main tab. Zillow right now. I wrote all about that in my Zillow Q3 analysis.

MLS 79

MLS Agents Pre-approval Brokerage 79

HomeLight

APRIL 21, 2022

While it would be nice to pin down the causes of the housing shortage to just one or two variables, the reality is there are many factors that first caused and then further exacerbated a lack of homes for sale in America. According to Zillow, in Q2 of 2021, iBuyers accounted for 1% of the market , but this affects markets very differently.

Construction 106

Construction Agents Home sale contingency Mortgages 106

Notorious ROB

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The National Broker Portal LLC , a joint venture owned 50-50 by the two companies since December 2016, will shut down on Oct. Close Reading. What we’ll do is engage in some close reading of the language of the players involved. After a year and half of negotiations, this is what took down the partnership?

MLS 87

MLS Residential Commercial Agents 87