{"id":1541,"date":"2007-06-14T12:34:36","date_gmt":"2007-06-14T19:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1541"},"modified":"2007-06-14T12:36:54","modified_gmt":"2007-06-14T19:36:54","slug":"zillowcom-news-broker-listing-feeds-coming-soon-a-lender-opportunity-and-no-news-is-not-good-news-in-arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1541\/zillowcom-news-broker-listing-feeds-coming-soon-a-lender-opportunity-and-no-news-is-not-good-news-in-arizona\/","title":{"rendered":"Zillow.com news: Broker listing feeds “coming soon,” a lender opportunity and no news is not good news in Arizona"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Jeff Somers at Zillow Blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Soon, we will be launching the capability for brokers to automatically upload their active listings for free to Zillow, reaching the more than 4 million people who come to the site every month — more than half of whom are in the market to buy or sell.<\/p>\n

Even when we first launched the ability for listing agents and brokers to add their listings for free to Zillow last December, we knew we wanted to find ways to make the process even easier. We have talked with numerous agents and brokers around the country — and we have heard over and over that you want to send us listings through a direct broker feed. As I type, our developers are wrapping up work on a very simple tool that will allow brokers to automatically upload listings to the site and keep those listings up to date.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There is a form you can fill out to be notified when the feature becomes available.<\/p>\n

Two days ago Zillow announced a similar sort of sign-up form for lenders<\/a>. What might this mean? At the time, I held my tongue, since what I have to say is pure speculation. But with today’s news as hook, here are a couple of wild-eyed conjectures:<\/p>\n

My guess is that they’re going to provide some kind of EZ lender hook-up for buyers and re-fi candidates. Perhaps LOs would have to assert interest in up to five zip codes or something like that. Zillow likes person-to-person contact, rather than engaging a nationwide vendor like Countrywide. If the presumption is that they’re looking for a comprehensively satisfying experience like Wikipedia or Ebay — and this is the presumption I work from when thinking about Zillow — then they’re going to want to facilitate relationships to be carried out on Zillow through time, rather than just throw off leads.<\/p>\n

It is possible, using tax records and loan rates, to calculate profitable re-fi candidates: Homes that can be refinanced at a net savings, month-to-month, to the owner. Zillow has everything it needs to do this, and 70 million candidate homes to work from. This Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Jeff Somers at Zillow Blog: Soon, we will be launching the capability for brokers to automatically upload their active listings for free to Zillow, reaching the more than 4 million people who come to the site every month — more than half of whom are in the market to buy or sell. 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