The BEST vs WORST Time to Buy a Home
When is the Best vs Worst time to buy a home? The 10 year host of The Late Show with Seth Meyers dipped his feet into the Real Estate neighborhood pool this week. The...
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OpenDoor, EXP, Zillow, Compass: Top ICLV Take Aways
Fabulous Las Vegas. To some, it’s late nights around a blackjack table, others prefer the club or singing karaoke till the wee hours of the morning but for me, ICLV was a whirlwind of...
Crime Data Doesn’t Pay
More is not better. In fact – more is worse. Frequently, we talk with executives of large real estate, mortgage and software companies about their desires to ramp up their data. They have the...
Zillow Offers: Flipped it, then Reversed it
It’s all over now, gone faster than a reasonably priced home when it hits the MLS. For a while this year, it looked as if Zillow and it’s ibuyer program Zillow Offers were flipping...
Zillow & NAR Hit With Same Lawsuit
In this strange new world where cats and dogs live together, Zillow and the National Association of Realtors have found themselves as allies, against REX. This started out of spite. When co-founder and CEO Jack...
Hot & Sexy Zillow Stock Soars – at what cost?
When Saturday Night Live parodies your company, things are going terribly wrong or significantly well for Zillow CEO Rich Barton. Perhaps it was fitting that this dropped right before their 2020 earnings call on...
Zillow Is Not Your Wingman for Leads
As a career salesperson you get to hear every analogy under the sun about what sales is like. “Sales is like cooking”, “It’s a numbers game”, sales is this, sales is that. The one...
The Great Covid19 Housing Migration
Covid19 is reshaping the mortgage and real estate industries in more ways than we can comprehend and causing a migration in housing. I thought it would be helpful to share what we are learning...
iBuyer: Zillow Revenue Jumps 40%
Zillow is boosting revenue with its iBuyer program, Zillow Offers. The company’s 2nd quarter earnings report showed $600M of revenue for the quarter, with $240M from iBuyer alone. Thus – Zillow iBuyer accounted for...