By The Tim on October 29, 2012
Full disclosure: The Tim is employed by Redfin. Earlier this month, Redfin released the results of an in-depth study of real estate listing accuracy across various websites, including Redfin, Windermere, Zillow, and Trulia. The results will not surprise anyone who has attempted to do any serious home searching on these sites, but I still wanted [...]
Posted in National, News | Tagged accuracy, real estate search, Redfin, Trulia, Windermere, Zillow
By The Tim on July 23, 2012
Big hat tip to SeattleJo, a reader who pointed out to me that last week our local PBS affiliate KBTC aired an interesting episode of their “Northwest Now” program, focused on local real estate. The whole thing is worth a watch, but the real fun starts at the 5:38 mark, when host Tom Layson has [...]
Posted in Audio & Video, Local, News | Tagged Beeson, bottom-calling, KBTC, TV, video, Zillow
By The Tim on September 22, 2011
A reader emailed me an interesting observation/question in response to yesterday’s discussion of Seattle’s cheap, ugly townhomes. There’s a trio of townhouses very near where I live. They’re interesting because they lay partially framed for (if I’m recalling correctly) more than a year and a half — at least through one Winter/Spring. They actually have [...]
Posted in Features | Tagged construction, reader_question, townhomes, townhouse, Zillow
By The Tim on July 17, 2011
This poll was active 07.17.2011 through 07.23.2011.
Posted in Polls | Tagged Polls, Zillow
By The Tim on July 15, 2011
As you probably know, Zillow will be going public with an IPO later this year. They made a few headlines today (TechCrunch, GeekWire, TechFlash) with an annoucement that their initial target stock price will be $16-$18, putting the company’s valuation at $485 million. So here’s a weekend conversation starter for you: Will you be buying [...]
Posted in Local, News | Tagged IPO, Stock Market, Zillow
By The Tim on May 20, 2011
Here are a few recent articles of interest that I thought might be worth discussion. Calculated Risk: The upward slope of Real House Prices I don’t think we have to choose between real prices and price-to-rent graphs to ask “how far out of line are house prices?” I think they are both showing that prices [...]
Posted in National, News | Tagged bottom-calling, buy-vs-rent, Calculated_Risk, New York Times, Reuters, Zillow
