Tag Archives: Zillow

Pre-Listing Appraisal: Yes or No?

If you or a client is considering the sale of a residential property, a pre-listing appraisal might prove to be much more valuable than the cost of actually having one done! The pre-listing appraisal can be useful for a variety of reasons but, at the end of the day, it comes down to pricing your home […]

National ‘Hidden Costs’ Of Homeownership Turn Me Green With Envy!

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Anyone who owns a home or is about to buy a home is typically very aware that the costs don’t end once the deed has been transferred to their name! For that reason I take a certain amount of issue with a Zillow/Thumbtack study that placed the moniker ‘hidden costs’ on the yearly home ownership expenses that include property taxes, homeowners insurance […]

2015 US Housing Market Forecasts

2015 US housing forecast

As 2014 quickly draws to a close, eyes will now turn to forecasts for how the US economy is expected to perform in 2015! And, as is surely the case, as the housing market goes will in no small way help to determine how the overall economy will go. From Calculated Risk, this chart provides 2015 US […]

Zillow: How reliable is its pricing information?

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Question: If you don’t use WebMD to diagnose a disease, why would you use Zillow to give you a definitive value for your house? How accurate is Zillow when it comes to determining the market value of a house? While the internet is a great tool for accomplishing a great many things, for others getting […]

What are comp sales?

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In other words if your looking to list and sell your home, what have other homes in the immediate neighborhood recently sold for? When the time comes to sell your home a listing price needs to be set. It can be set too low meaning that you leave money on the table, too high which […]

Housing affordability: 1 in 3 aren’t! (Chart)

Follow @Hallmark Abstract Service As housing continues to heal from the financial crisis that had devastated real estate markets around the country, the question then becomes whether at some time we reach a point where affordability becomes an issue! We recently wrote an article here that had provided an interactive chart of the stability of […]

What do home prices and NASDAQ stocks have in common?

Follow @Hallmark Abstract Service Hopefully nothing because… …while the run-up in technology and biotech stocks recently has hit a brick wall and an IPO actually went down on its first day of trading (King Digital Entertainment maker of Candy Crush) home prices, while pausing for the past three months, are still heading in the right […]

Top 20 Most Visited Real Estate Websites!

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So many real estate websites and so little time! How does the consumer along with the companies involved with the buying, selling and marketing of real estate on a daily basis know the key websites that they should likely be visiting or potentially advertising on? In the world of the internet the key metric for […]

New York Real Estate Stories For August 19th, 2013

The New York City online real estate market was rocked Monday by the purchase of StreetEasy by Zillow! Zillow Buys Real-Estate Website StreetEasy for $50 Million – ‘Zillow Inc. (Z), operator of the largest U.S. real-estate website, agreed to acquire StreetEasy for $50 million in cash to expand its coverage of the New York market…’ Real […]