Zillow is Taking Over the World!
Popularized in a hilarious Saturday Night Live skit, the act of scrolling through listings like a dating app on a Friday night — Zillow surfing, to the uninitiated — has continued despite the end of stay-at-home orders. The act of escapism that is visually rifling through a stranger’s home and imagining how your furniture would…
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Here is news coming from the east coast that the State of New York is considering — mind you, just chatting about — regulating online real estate ads placed by agents. The focus is on third party ads such as Zillow’s “Premiere Agent” whereby an agent buys an ad on another agent’s listing. That is,…
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Are Zestimates an invasion of privacy? Back in May, Zillow was sued by several flippers in Chicago who were annoyed that Zestimates were undervaluing their flips (likely because the system hadn’t caught up) and bringing in bottom feeders using Zestimates as holy writ on appraised value and therefore purchase price. In my May coverage, I…
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This statement just came over from Zillow. The real estate search giant says it won’t pursue legal action against Kate Wagner and the McMansion Hell blog, but Wagner agrees not to use Zillow photos moving forward. “It was never our intent for McMansion Hell to shut down” they say. Well, when a billion dollar company…
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Greg Hague is a Phoenix-based real estate broker and owner of Real Estate Mavericks. He is also an attorney. He is mad as hell at Zillow and “not going to take it anymore.” So Greg has started an on-line petition, that we are including here, in case you want to sign it. There are already…
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