{"id":771,"date":"2006-12-15T06:25:29","date_gmt":"2006-12-15T13:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=771"},"modified":"2007-01-24T23:04:33","modified_gmt":"2007-01-25T06:04:33","slug":"web-sites-offer-exciting-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/771\/web-sites-offer-exciting-options\/","title":{"rendered":"Web sites offer exciting options"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is me in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/community\/glendale\/articles\/1215gl-swann15Z18.html\" target=\"_blank\">today&#8217;s <i>Arizona Republic<\/i><\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/bloodhoundrealty.com\/AZRep.php?Gfile=AZRepublic\/161.php\" target=\"_blank\">permanent link<\/a>). Sadly, this is news. In other words, this is the first mention of the Zillow.com upgrades in the <i>Republic<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Web sites offer exciting options<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Depending on whom you talk to, the real estate industry is undergoing a revolutionary change &#8211; or is not.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Realty.bots&#8221; arrived in force in 2006, national Web sites offering free home evaluations or free for-sale listings for homeowners.<\/p>\n<p>Some Realtors and consumers view these as harbingers of great change. Others yawn and dismiss them as gimmicks.<\/p>\n<p>Zillow.com, one of the biggest of the Realty.bots, just upped the stakes with an upgrade that will add the following new functionality:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Owners or listing agents for any of the 67 million homes in Zillow&#8217;s database will be able to list those homes for sale at no cost.<\/li>\n<li>Owners will be able to post a &#8220;Make Me Move&#8221; price on their homes, the price at which all objections to selling will have been overcome.<\/li>\n<li>Zillow is creating a real estate &#8220;wiki&#8221; to serve as a sort of Wikipedia.org-like encyclopedia of real estate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The wiki &#8212; a user-built and maintained encyclopedia &#8212; is a nice idea that may grow into something great in time.<\/p>\n<p>The Make Me Move feature seems like a gimmick right now, although it may turn into a vibrant clearinghouse for homes.<\/p>\n<p>But the big news is that owners and Realtors will be able to list their homes on a site that already draws around 3.2 million visitors a month.<\/p>\n<p>On the one hand, that number is huge. It rivals Realtor.com, the 900-pound gorilla of real estate Web sites.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, it could be a big yawn: Millions upon millions of homeowners and buyers are not going to Zillow.com or to any real estate sites.<\/p>\n<p>Surely this will change over the long run, and Zillow is positioning itself to be the one-stop-shopping national real estate Web site. This bodes ill for Realtor.com and all of the other Realty.bots.<\/p>\n<p>Real estate is local, not national, and a real estate transaction involves hundreds of intricate details for which expert advice is essential.<\/p>\n<p>So what does all this mean for consumers and Realtors? Time will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/771\/web-sites-offer-exciting-options\/#more-771\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is me in today&#8217;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 &#8211; or is not. The &#8220;Realty.bots&#8221; arrived [&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":[4,6,5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-771","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-disintermediation","7":"category-marketing","8":"category-real-estate","9":"category-technology","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1156,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1156\/databases-fall-short-of-needs-at-realtybots\/","url_meta":{"origin":771,"position":0},"title":"Databases fall short of needs at realty.bots","author":"Greg Swann","date":"March 16, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"This is me in today's Arizona Republic (permanent link): \u00a0Databases fall short of needs at realty.bots Realogy, the giant, publicly traded conglomerate of big-name brokerages, recently announced a deal whereby it will feed all of its listings to realty.bots, Trulia.com and Google Base. That's a mouthful. First, what's a realty.bot?\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":1237,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1237\/skilled-realtor-bargain-of-lifetime\/","url_meta":{"origin":771,"position":1},"title":"Skilled Realtor bargain of lifetime","author":"Greg Swann","date":"March 30, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"This is me in today's Arizona Republic (permanent link): \u00a0Skilled Realtor bargain of lifetime We own 65 Internet domains so far. Of those, 29 are actually hosted on the Internet, sites you can visit with your Web browser. The others are \"pointed\" at the hosted sites. If you forget that\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":1257,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1257\/greg-peeing-on-the-tree-1\/","url_meta":{"origin":771,"position":2},"title":"Planet Zillow.com: Burgeoning Realty.bot grows, potentially, to become a self-sustaining residential real estate eco-system","author":"Greg Swann","date":"April 3, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's the news. We'll circle back for details and implications. Zillow.com, the national Realty.bot growing out of the popular automated home valuation service, is releasing a new version of its popular web-based real estate portal tonight. Dubbed Zillow 5, the new functionality comes in three broad categories:Any user of the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Enduring Interest&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Enduring Interest","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/enduring-interest\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":739,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/739\/2006-is-the-year-of-zillow-the-900-pound-avm-has-been-upgraded-to-be-a-free-listing-platform-and-the-presumptive-national-mls-system\/","url_meta":{"origin":771,"position":3},"title":"2006 is the Year of Zillow: The 900 pound AVM has been upgraded to be a free listing platform and the presumptive national MLS system . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"December 6, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"The News An upgrade made tonight to Zillow.com's on-line home evaluation system will add the following new functionality:Owners or listing agents for any of the 67 million homes in Zillow's database will be able to list those homes for sale at no cost.Owners of any Zestimable homes will be able\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Enduring Interest&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Enduring Interest","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/enduring-interest\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2483,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2483\/zillowcom-cultivates-its-garden-with-ten-million-new-database-records-improved-home-valuation-algorithms-and-the-adoption-with-truliacom-and-other-realtybots-of-the-rets-listings-standard\/","url_meta":{"origin":771,"position":4},"title":"Zillow.com cultivates its garden with ten million new database records, improved home valuation algorithms and the adoption, with Trulia.com and other Realty.bots, of a RETS-compatible listings standard","author":"Greg Swann","date":"January 9, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"First the news on horseback. We'll come back and gloss it again, but you're likely to learn more by listening to the podcast linked below with Zillow.com's David Gibbons. The news, from Zillow's press release:Real estate Web site Zillow.com today announced a major expansion and upgrade to its database of\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":3460,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3460\/there-arent-enough-advertising-dollars-for-zillowcom-to-go-ipo-but-adding-google-street-view-makes-the-site-a-little-more-useful\/","url_meta":{"origin":771,"position":5},"title":"There aren&#8217;t enough advertising dollars for Zillow.com to go IPO, but adding Google Street View makes the site a little more useful","author":"Greg Swann","date":"July 23, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"So far, in 30 months since Zillow.com launched, precisely one client has shown me a Zestimate. 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