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More (and More) Speculation About Zillows Mortgage Offering
March 7th, 2008 Categories: Mortgage News, third party destination sites, zillow
From the Zillow Blog regarding their pending foray into the mortgage industry:
To participate in this new product offering, lenders must have their professional status confirmed prior to connecting with borrowers, so we want to give lenders a head start on the process:
1. Register with Zillow, if you haven’t already.
2. Then apply as a lender, and answer a few questions about yourself.
3. While access to borrowers is free, a one-time application fee of $25 is necessary to cover the costs of having an independent third party confirm your professional and employment status to Zillow. This is the only charge to participate; there are no other fees.
Hat tip to Blown Mortgage for the screen shot…
Gut reaction:
Zillow is taking measured steps to insure mortgage professionals who wish to participate in their pending ‘mortgage lead network’ are actually licensed and of generally sound character (on paper), to which I say: Good call!
I’ve speed read about 5 articles regarding Zillows pending mortgage offering from the likes of Brian Brady, Morgan Brown, Greg Swann, Todd Carpenter and on the Zillow blog itself. Since I’ve link loved to enough speculation to keep even the most rabid tabloid hungry reader satisfied, I’ll spare everyone my crystal ball predictions and just wait for Zillow to roll out their offering.
I’m a long time fan of the big Z and get good vibes from everyone I’ve met within their organization, so I’m optimistic based on this early tid-bit of news…not quite as much as Swann however, who is gushing with accolades about Zillow for ‘Reinventing and perfecting Capitalism’..? Maybe BHB knows information I dont (maybe I should sponsor BHBU too).
What I do know is that Zillow is becoming a Name Brand to more and more of the consumer public, and their mortgage play will surely add to this…which is exactly what I believe they are looking for. Zillow is trying to become to real estate (and mortgage) what Vasoline is to petroleum jelly.
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Yahoo!, Zillow and Trulia Talk About Merging Ideas to Create a New Data Standards Format
February 12th, 2008 Categories: Real Estate Technology, Trulia, real estate seacrh, third party destination sites, yahoo, zillow
Yahoo!, Zillow and Trulia Talk About Merging Ideas to Create a New Data Standards Format.
Hooray! The single largest issue that bogs down better real estate Search is the hieroglyphical nature of the data between repositories (MLS’ primarily).
Many times cooperative yields far better results than competitive…but then the id, ego, and/or super-ego goes and gets in the way of things. Galen openly loathes MLS data normalization, so this appears to be a good thing. Looks like these current pillars of real estate Search have put aside their respective psyche’s in attempt to make real estate Search better for everyone.
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Zillow Lands a Big Listing Fish Too
February 5th, 2008 Categories: Homes and Land, Real Estate News, Real Estate Technology, third party destination sites, widget the web, zillow
Drew reports of Zillows newest splash into the property listing pool by hooking up with Homes and Land.
The push toward an advertised to available property listing tipping point continues…It’s a horse race folks.
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