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Geek Estate Newsletter #25 – The Waking of the 800 Pound Gorilla(s)

Geek Estate Newsletter #25 – The Waking of the 800 Pound Gorilla(s)

The purpose of Geek Estate’s mastermind community is two fold: Curate the most incredible and diverse membership of real estate innovators, creatives, doers, and creators in the world. Make our members wildly successful in their careers building real estate companies. In this week’s member newsletter…

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The Expansion of Zillow Instant Offers into Zillow Actually Purchasing (and Renovating) Homes

The Expansion of Zillow Instant Offers into Zillow Actually Purchasing (and Renovating) Homes

The latest announcement from Zillow Group is going to send shockwaves through the industry… Excited to announce our newest business segment, an expansion of @zillow Instant Offers. Big things ahead. #MoveFastThinkBig #ZGLife https://t.co/H1GgbUucps — Spencer Rascoff (@spencerrascoff) April 12, 2018 Beyond expanding Instant Offers into…

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Geek Estate Newsletter #22 – Zillow Goes to Canada

Geek Estate Newsletter #22 – Zillow Goes to Canada

The purpose of Geek Estate’s mastermind community is two fold: Curate the most incredible and diverse membership of real estate innovators, creatives, doers, and creators in the world. Make our members wildly successful in their careers building real estate companies. In this week’s member newsletter…

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Thoughts on Zillow’s Latest Consumer Brand, Out East

Thoughts on Zillow’s Latest Consumer Brand, Out East

Zillow recently launched a new brand, Out East. It’s a portal for the Hamptons, joining Street Easy as a Zillow Group consumer brand on the East coast. It’s the result of their acquisition of Hamptons Real Estate Online (see here), which turned out to be…

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Class Action Suit Against Zestimates Dismissed

Class Action Suit Against Zestimates Dismissed

When I first heard the news that someone in Illinios was suing Zillow over a bad Zestimate, my gut was it was a complete frivolous lawsuit that would result in nothing other than wasting both time and money by both parties. Turns out I was right….

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Why Don’t Agent/Brokers Release Their Own Instant Offers?

Why Don’t Agent/Brokers Release Their Own Instant Offers?

Rob got me thinking… while Zillow is the #1 website in the real estate category, I’m willing to bet that most consumers don’t start searching there. I think they start searching on Google and go from there. So… say it with me: Google Instant Offer….

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Zillow Instant Offers…Finally

Zillow Instant Offers…Finally

It’s no secret inventory is a problem in many real estate markets across the country (my own backyard, Seattle, certainly falls in that list). That begs the question, how do you open up more inventory for purchase? I’ve long been a fan of the Make…

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Do Millennials Need Their Own Portal?

Do Millennials Need Their Own Portal?

Another portal, targeted at millennials? Will that get adopted? It seems we’re about to find out with Zillow Group’s upcoming launch of RealEstate.com.

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Zillow + Sun Number

Zillow + Sun Number

I’m glad to see Zillow added Sun Number’s to property detail pages this last week. I hadn’t hadn’t heard of Sun Number until tonight. From their website, their mission: increasing the public’s awareness of the solar potential of buildings through our Sun Number™ Scores The company/product reminds me a…

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The Sad Decline of Diverse Solutions IDX

The Sad Decline of Diverse Solutions IDX

If you’ve followed my posts here on Geek Estate, you know I’ve had a long history as a customer of Diverse Solutions. I’m not sure exactly when I started with them, probably sometime in 2008, but I was using their dsSearchAgent (Mapping IDX) well before they launched dsIDXpress…

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