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Excerpt from Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff’s Court Testimony

Posted on April 23, 2016April 25, 2016 by The Tim

I was doing some light reading of the public transcripts from the Move vs. Zillow court hearings in King County Superior Court last week. This excerpt from pages 81-84 in the full Wednesday afternoon transcript was certainly entertaining…

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“You hope beyond hope that you get this house…”

Posted on April 12, 2016April 12, 2016 by The Tim

Last week the Seattle Times ran an editorial from a frustrated would-be home buyer currently in the trenches, and the whole piece has an eerily familiar ring to it…

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Rocket Mortgage Super Bowl Ad: Let’s Repeat the Bubble!

Posted on February 10, 2016February 23, 2016 by The Tim

This ad for Quicken Loans’ “Rocket Mortgage” app aired during the Super Bowl on Sunday…

Wow. It is like the people at Quicken Loans who are responsible for promoting their Rocket Mortgage app somehow completely missed the previous housing bubble and the massive economic fallout when it burst.

Yes, let’s make it super easy for everyone to buy homes! What could possibly go wrong?

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Surefield Pricepoint Home Pricing Tool

Surefield Releases New Map-Based Home Pricing Tool to Compete with Zillow & Redfin

Posted on November 20, 2015November 20, 2015 by The Tim

Local alternative brokerage Surefield added another slick new tool to their arsenal this week: A map-based home pricing tool that they are calling Pricepoint. Together with their flagship 3D home tour technology (previously spotlighted here), this new offering strengthens Surefield’s focus on home sellers.

The tool offers an interactive, transparent alternative to Zillow’s black box “Zestimates,” and is touted by Surefield as “the most accurate and reliable way to price a home.”

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October Reporting Roundup: Predictions and Superstitions Edition

Posted on November 12, 2015November 12, 2015 by The Tim

“This time is different!”

It always is, isn’t it?

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