Comments on: Zillow Steps Beyond Free – Rental and Search http://www.realcentralva.com/2009/12/15/zillow-steps-beyond-free-rental-and-search/ Tracking Charlottesville's Real Estate Market since 2005 Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:56:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Sara Bonert http://www.realcentralva.com/2009/12/15/zillow-steps-beyond-free-rental-and-search/#comment-29210 Sara Bonert Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:32:47 +0000 http://www.realcentralva.com/2009/12/15/zillow-steps-beyond-free-rental-and-search/#comment-29210 Right now there isn't any plan to cap it. We'll obviously have to keep our eye on this. But the Featureds will only show up based on user seach criteria, so that limits how many will actually show up. Right now, since we don't have the ability to accept Rentals via feeds (yet), the only way to get a Rental property on the site is by manually uploading and thus, making it Featured. Once we get feeds in place, this will then provide a difference between Featured and non-Featured properties, making the difference more clear. (targeting early 2010 for feeds) Right now there isn’t any plan to cap it. We’ll obviously have to keep our eye on this. But the Featureds will only show up based on user seach criteria, so that limits how many will actually show up.

Right now, since we don’t have the ability to accept Rentals via feeds (yet), the only way to get a Rental property on the site is by manually uploading and thus, making it Featured. Once we get feeds in place, this will then provide a difference between Featured and non-Featured properties, making the difference more clear. (targeting early 2010 for feeds)

]]> By: Tony Sena http://www.realcentralva.com/2009/12/15/zillow-steps-beyond-free-rental-and-search/#comment-29201 Tony Sena Sat, 02 Jan 2010 23:15:30 +0000 http://www.realcentralva.com/2009/12/15/zillow-steps-beyond-free-rental-and-search/#comment-29201 Sara, I just checked my area and I am only showing (1) property for rent in Las Vegas and it is obviously featured. How many properties will be featured on a page once you begin to add inventory? Sara,

I just checked my area and I am only showing (1) property for rent in Las Vegas and it is obviously featured. How many properties will be featured on a page once you begin to add inventory?

]]> By: Sara Bonert http://www.realcentralva.com/2009/12/15/zillow-steps-beyond-free-rental-and-search/#comment-28985 Sara Bonert Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:59:05 +0000 http://www.realcentralva.com/2009/12/15/zillow-steps-beyond-free-rental-and-search/#comment-28985 Hey Jim- If you go to our home page, we always have all the property record counts posted. Today it is: Property records: 93,419,631 For Sale: 3,876,108 (FYI - about 3% of these are manually upload, and thus affect by the change) Make Me Move: 21,917 Rentals: There isn't a count yet, but I bet there will be soon. We just started yesterday and about one hour in, we were at 25! Haha. That will grow. It would be a shot in the dark for me to guess any type of number at this point. Once we can ingest feeds, that will impact the number greatly (hopefully early 2010). With regards to your last question, right now you can't dual market a home. Hey Jim- If you go to our home page, we always have all the property record counts posted. Today it is:
Property records: 93,419,631
For Sale: 3,876,108 (FYI – about 3% of these are manually upload, and thus affect by the change)
Make Me Move: 21,917
Rentals: There isn’t a count yet, but I bet there will be soon. We just started yesterday and about one hour in, we were at 25! Haha. That will grow. It would be a shot in the dark for me to guess any type of number at this point. Once we can ingest feeds, that will impact the number greatly (hopefully early 2010).

With regards to your last question, right now you can’t dual market a home.

]]> By: Jim Duncan http://www.realcentralva.com/2009/12/15/zillow-steps-beyond-free-rental-and-search/#comment-28984 Jim Duncan Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:52:09 +0000 http://www.realcentralva.com/2009/12/15/zillow-steps-beyond-free-rental-and-search/#comment-28984 Sara - Thanks for stopping by and clarifying. Zillow's still not very accurate in the Charlottesville market, but I expect that will change. What is the percentage of properties in your database that are currently listed for sale? Any idea on what percentage will be for rent? I mentioned this elsewhere, but what about the properties that are for sale <i>or </i> rent? Sara -

Thanks for stopping by and clarifying. Zillow’s still not very accurate in the Charlottesville market, but I expect that will change.

What is the percentage of properties in your database that are currently listed for sale? Any idea on what percentage will be for rent?

I mentioned this elsewhere, but what about the properties that are for sale or rent?

]]> By: Sara Bonert http://www.realcentralva.com/2009/12/15/zillow-steps-beyond-free-rental-and-search/#comment-28969 Sara Bonert Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:01:25 +0000 http://www.realcentralva.com/2009/12/15/zillow-steps-beyond-free-rental-and-search/#comment-28969 Sara from Zillow here. Nice succinct summary! Just want to make it clear that if you are paying us for a listing (rental or for sale) that the listing wouldn't just be put in the basic listing mix, it will be Featured. This means that it will show up at the top of searches (usually getting 6xs more views). Sara from Zillow here. Nice succinct summary!
Just want to make it clear that if you are paying us for a listing (rental or for sale) that the listing wouldn’t just be put in the basic listing mix, it will be Featured. This means that it will show up at the top of searches (usually getting 6xs more views).

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