Zillow and I-Phone Real Estate Applications
This is something we as consumers understand, not sure all agents do: buying real estate is quickly becoming something you cannot do without technology. Why shouldn’t you be able to drive through a ‘hood, see a listing, tap onto your phone and pull up all the info on the home? I mean, fifty percent of the time those plastic containers holding the flyers are empty. Or wet. (Competing agents often drive around and steal them.) A few weeks ago, I saw a foreclosure on the corner of Bushire and Royal Lane — great area. I called the number on the sign and tapped in the “case number”, only to be disconnected repeatedly. All I wanted was to know the price of the home at that moment. Well, that seller lost me. Pairing Zillow with the I-Phone is a brilliant move, but will it work in Texas?
Zillow’s “zestimates” continue to be all over the place in Texas, which the company cannot help because we are a non-disclosure state. You can, of course, google DCAD and pull the tax appraisal from your phone — cumbersome, but I do that all the time. I keep Housefront.com on my phone as well. But Zillow’s new info-loaded app uses GPS and “follows you” as you walk or drive — too cool to describe. Watch this. I’m off to download it!
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That is the best app that Apple has created so far!!!
I’m liking it, but would like it even more if it also contained a link to the MLS listing.
Then who would need the Realtors? Ooooops.
The application is pretty cool, but that ‘Z-Estimate’ figure is largely irrelevant. I just looked at a well-priced listing I have where the Z-Estimate is not even in the ballpark. In fact, if my sellers would take a price $250K higher than the Z-Estimate, it’d be such a steal that I’d sign a contract today to buy it from them myself.
Agreed with Brady, the Zestimates are largely incorrect, at least in every neighborhood that we’ve viewed so far.
Working in real estate, I dl’ed the app for kicks and found discrepancies within my own neighborhood in the ballpark of $70k+… and I know those aren’t accurate ranges for my ‘hood.
Though, it is an awesome app and gives a buyer, agent and nosy neighbor ‘at your fingers’ access with more information than we used to have driving around in our cars. It’s only a matter of time, now…
Hate to be the spelling czar but it is
iPhone not I-Phone