The Future Of Real Estate Marketing (Free subscription) | 03/20/2009
Every Friday, I will be sharing a roundup of choice links to stories/posts that have caught my eye each week. Here’s a few from the last couple of days. Sara Bonert - 10 Ways Real Estate Professionals Can Use Zillow v2.0 (some great tools here from Zillow) 4realz.net - 4 Levels of Social Media Connections (great series [...] Ad: Reach over 5500 savvy Realtors, brokers and technologists every...
sellsius° real estate blog (Free subscription) | 03/19/2009
Neighbors can affect the value of your home (and your piece of mind). But no computer program can account for them. Hence, they are unzillowable. (aaa… does a buyer really want to live next to your asshole neighbor?) Zillow me this': Related Posts: Are the Neighbors Unzillowable? Ask Rotten Neighbor Rotten Neighbors And the Duty to Disclose (video nastiness) Technorati Tags: [...] Check for...
The Denver Business Journal (Free subscription) | 03/13/2009
Colorado home-mortgage rates, which had been climbing since late December, have been trending down in recent weeks, according to data from Zillow Mortgage Marketplace.
sellsius° real estate blog (Free subscription) | 03/10/2009
You say tomato, I say tomahto. Let’s call the whole thing off! ~George & Ira Gershwin Now, before Zillow’s David Gibbons comes by to argue semantics again, I have always opined that allowing folks other than the homeowner or listing agent to “note” a home for sale on Zillow.com was the same as “advertising” it for [...] Check for Sellsius Real Estate Marketing...
Xconomy (Free subscription) | 03/09/2009
Marcelo Calbucci’s Seattle 2.0 index of local startups’ websites is out for February, and shows little movement at the top. Zillow, Pet Holdings, iLike, BuddyTV, and Robot Co-op have the top five sites, based on traffic estimates. Calbucci points out a few sites in the top 20 that were not there a year ago: BigOven, [...]
Brier Dudley's blog (Free subscription) | 03/09/2009
There's not a lot of change in the latest Seattle Web startup ranking released today by Marcelo Calbucci. Zillow's still on top, followed by Pet Holdings, iLike, BuddyTV and Robot Co-Op. But Calbucci called out a few gainers in the monthly report, looking for a positive note after last month's report highlighted a bunch of goners . Among his observations: Three of the six companies climbing into the...
My-Mortgage.org (Free subscription) | 03/09/2009
Refinancing a mortgage can save homeowners a bundleThe number one news source for the Waco, Temple, Killeen, and Fort Hood area. Make your own Zillow Mortgage widget using ASP.net & C# …Since watching mortgage rates fall is a lot more fun than watching home prices fall, I decided to implement a simple widget that uses the [...]
GeekEstate Blog (Free subscription) | 03/08/2009
The last time I posted on Geek Estate, I wrote about how to use the Trulia API from a PHP page. Since watching mortgage rates fall is a lot more fun than watching home prices fall, I decided to implement a simple widget that uses the recently released Zillow Mortgage API. This time, I’m using [...]
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4life (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009
Below is a chart of home prices in my zipcode taken from Zillow We bought our house around the peak of that chart. According to Zillow our home seems to have lost about $50,000 in value since we bought it. That seems high on the surface but I know of at least one house in our neighborhood that just sold for $60,000 less than what the owners paid for it around the same time we bought our house. I don't...
Portfolio.com: The Tech Observer (Free subscription) | 03/06/2009
Rich Barton, the guy who started Expedia and Zillow , a couple years ago told me that "everything that can be rated, will be rated." But it seems that doctors are determined to fight the trend -- even though patients increasingly want that kind of information about their health care providers. The latest development: A Web-based company called Medical Justice, started by a neurosurgeon,...
Xconomy (Free subscription) | 03/04/2009
Seattle-based Second Avenue Partners has invested in a $2 million Series B financing round in Fanzter, a Collinsville, CT-based new media development company. The round was led by Steamboat Ventures. Fanzter was founded in 2007 and was also backed by Seattle-area investors Rich Barton from Zillow and Expedia, and Curious Office Partners. The startup runs [...]
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 03/03/2009
"It's been fascinating to watch homeowners and potential buyers respond so quickly to these record low mortgage rates and to the economic news of the day. We saw borrowers react quickly when rates dove below 5 percent in early February; loan requests rose 16 percent compared to the previous week," said Lloyd Frink, Zillow president. "Likewise, when President Obama announced his refinancing...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 03/03/2009
Consumer Loan Requests Up 142 percent since November 2008; More than 60 percent of requests are for refinancing SEATTLE, March 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Amidst the announcement of President Barack Obama's housing plan, and with mortgage rates reaching historic lows, real estate web site Zillow.com reports record-breaking traffic and loan request activity within its free marketplace for custom mortgage quotes,...
sellsius° real estate blog (Free subscription) | 02/16/2009
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence ~Henry Louis Mencken Because I am a homeowner, I am not a Zillow lover. I’m not saying the whole site is a turn off (it’s not, by the way) but only that, IMO, it violates certain homeowner rights– including: how their home is marketed and advertised (with or without [...]
Stockerblog - The Stock Market Blog (Free subscription) | 02/14/2009
It may be hard to believe, but Zillow is listing eight houses for sale at a reasonable price of only $100. And yes, there is even one in California and two in Florida. Here are some of the cheapest houses in the country according to Zillow. Michigan Colorado (5 bedroom, 4.5 bath, 3400 sq ft) Texas ( 5 bed, 3.5 bath) California Ohio Illinois Florida Florida
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