Zillow is Taking Over the World!

Zillow Instant Offers: How Long Before We Sell Houses Online?

By Candy Evans / May 25, 2017 /

By now you have called in to refill your Xanex Rx after learning that Zillow is not only democratizing the home buying process, it’s turning it into an Amazon-like experience. We knew this was coming. The online real estate disruptor announced this week a pilot program for buying and selling homes online called “Zillow Instant Offers.” The…

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Zulia Zulia: Judge Orders Listings to Keep On Flowing to Trulia

By Candy Evans / February 25, 2015 /

So apparently Trulia’s agreement with ListHub to receive listing data was set to expire next spring, 2016. But ListHub decided to turn it off sooner, like February 26, based on the Trulia-Zillow merger. ListHub — which is owned by Realtor.com operator Move Inc., a News Corp. subsidiary — announced Thursday that it had terminated its syndication…

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NTREIS Opts to Give MLS Listings to Zillow — How Do You Feel About That?

By Candy Evans / February 24, 2015 /

You may know by now that Zillow has closed on its acquisition of Trulia, without so much as a blink from the US Department of Justice. You may also know that uniform listing feeds — aka House Porn —  to Zillow from all 810 MLS in this country ends April 7, when the age-old agreement…

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From the “Zulia Scares Beejesus Out of Us” Files: Listen to the Founder of NextHome

By Candy Evans / August 6, 2014 /

I like to sit at the heels of smart peeps in the real estate industry, folks who know the industry, the role technology plays,  and have a grip on where it’s headed with this tech/transparency marriage. One of my faves is Rob Hahn, who turned me onto James Dwiggins, Chief Executive Officer of NextHome, Inc.…

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Zulia! Musings on the Zillow Acquisition of Trulia: Get ready to Make a Verb Out of “Zillow”

By Candy Evans / July 28, 2014 /

It’s been a day trying to interpret and predict the future of the real estate industry. Good grief! Jeff Farris of BubbleLife Media reminded me that seven years ago, we didn’t have a verb called “google.” I was just getting an iphone. I started a “blob” called DallasDirt! We think maybe in another five to…

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