{"id":1271,"date":"2007-04-06T08:46:14","date_gmt":"2007-04-06T15:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1271"},"modified":"2007-04-06T08:47:35","modified_gmt":"2007-04-06T15:47:35","slug":"web-site-builds-community-of-real-estate-consumers-vendors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1271\/web-site-builds-community-of-real-estate-consumers-vendors\/","title":{"rendered":"Web site builds community of real estate consumers, vendors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is me <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/community\/glendale\/articles\/0406gl-swann06Z18.html\" target=\"_blank\">in today&#8217;s <i>Arizona Republic<\/i><\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/bloodhoundrealty.com\/AZRep.php?Gfile=AZRepublic\/177.php\" target=\"_blank\">permanent link<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>This is adapted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1257\" target=\"_blank\">from my main post Tuesday night<\/a>, of course. I get 350 words in the paper. They cut me today to 330, so I used my own version of the text for the permanent link.<\/p>\n<p>But here&#8217;s the sad part: This is breaking news in the <i>Republic<\/i>. This is the first word of Zillow&#8217;s new release to appear in the newspaper. Aren&#8217;t you glad you have a choice about where to get your news?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/><b>Web site builds community of real estate consumers, vendors<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"body\">Zillow.com, the national Realty.bot growing out of the popular automated home valuation service, released a new version of its popular web-based software Tuesday night. The system&#8217;s new functionality comes in three broad categories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Any user of the system &#8212; not just homeowners or their real estate agents &#8212; will be able to report that a particular home is for sale and at what price. Only owners and\/or listing agents will be able to create more elaborate listings for homes for sale.<\/li>\n<li>Any user of the site will be able to ask or answer a specific question about a home, whether or not it is listed for sale. The questions and answers will be stored with the record for that home, and each user&#8217;s questions, answers and Zillow Wiki contributions will be recorded on that user&#8217;s personal profile page on the system.<\/li>\n<li>Agents or other users wishing to promote either themselves or their homes listed for sale will be able to do so through a new &#8220;EZ Ads&#8221; system. The ads will be sold by the zip-code at a cost of one-penny per impression.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;With this release, Zillow becomes a community,&#8221; said David Gibbons, the company&#8217;s Director of Community Relations. Zillow&#8217;s home value &#8220;Zestimates&#8221; have been very popular with home sellers. Zillow.com is giving buyers and Realtors incentives to join its community.<\/p>\n<p>Zillow wants agents to submit at least limited-data listings, which will in turn bring it buyers, which will in turn reward sellers and listing agents for inputting full-data listings and other information, which will in turn provide a stickier and more satisfying experience for buyers. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1271\/web-site-builds-community-of-real-estate-consumers-vendors\/#more-1271\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is me in today&#8217;s Arizona Republic (permanent link). This is adapted from my main post Tuesday night, of course. I get 350 words in the paper. They cut me today to 330, so I used my own version of the text for the permanent link. But here&#8217;s the sad part: This is breaking news [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,19,25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1271","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-marketing","7":"category-real-estate","8":"category-technology","9":"category-zillowcom","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1574,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1574\/seven-days-of-the-dog-bloodhoundblog-is-the-real-estate-weblog-to-turn-to-for-hard-charging-hard-news-reporting\/","url_meta":{"origin":1271,"position":0},"title":"Seven Days of the Dog: BloodhoundBlog is the real estate weblog to turn to for hard-charging hard news reporting","author":"Greg Swann","date":"June 23, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"BloodhoundBlog is celebrating its first birthday this coming Friday, so I wanted to take a little time to highlight some of the best work we've done over the last twelve months. There is a limit to how much primary reporting a real estate weblog can do. The webloggers are each\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blogging&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blogging","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/blogging\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":771,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/771\/web-sites-offer-exciting-options\/","url_meta":{"origin":1271,"position":1},"title":"Web sites offer exciting options","author":"Greg Swann","date":"December 15, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"This is me in today's Arizona Republic (permanent link). Sadly, this is news. In other words, this is the first mention of the Zillow.com upgrades in the Republic. Web sites offer exciting options Depending on whom you talk to, the real estate industry is undergoing a revolutionary change - or\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Disintermediation&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Disintermediation","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/disintermediation\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1358,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1358\/state-vs-zillowcom-will-be-a-lengthy-bout\/","url_meta":{"origin":1271,"position":2},"title":"State vs. Zillow.com will be a lengthy bout","author":"Greg Swann","date":"April 27, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"This is me in today's Arizona Republic (permanent link). This goofy little column often \"breaks news\" in the sense that I cover facts that have not yet been reported by the Republic's real estate reporters. Normally I keep this to myself, because I don't want to frighten the people who\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Disintermediation&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Disintermediation","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/disintermediation\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1565,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1565\/zillowcom-off-the-hook-in-arizona-state-rethinks-crackdown-on-online-home-appraisals\/","url_meta":{"origin":1271,"position":3},"title":"Zillow.com off the hook in Arizona?: &#8220;State rethinks crackdown on online home appraisals&#8221;","author":"Greg Swann","date":"June 22, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"This is me in the Arizona Republic (permanent link). State rethinks crackdown on online home appraisals The move by the Arizona Board of Appraisal and Attorney General Terry Goddard to prosecute Zillow.com, and potentially other Internet-based home valuation services, may be at an end. Last June and November, the board\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Disintermediation&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Disintermediation","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/disintermediation\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1518,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1518\/consumer-is-the-loser-with-real-estate-licensing-broker-argues\/","url_meta":{"origin":1271,"position":4},"title":"Consumer is the loser with real estate licensing, broker argues","author":"Greg Swann","date":"June 8, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"This is me in today's Arizona Republic (permanent link): \u00a0Consumer is the loser with real estate licensing, broker argues We've been talking about real estate licensing laws, admittedly an exercise in futility. 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