Zillow formally launched their mortgage community today. David Gibbons was kind enough to give me the grand tour yesterday…my general opinion is that this is a big step in the right direction for a broken mortgage industry.
Stating the obvious…what Zillow has created is a community for mortgage professionals (Mo-Pro), a community that requires said participating [...]
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 [...]
ActiveRain, I fear, faces a pricey uphill battle against Move.com due to their steadfast commitment towards a full blown trial. The attorneys must be licking their chops as this looks to be a battle of attrition. Move definitely has the pockets burn and turn this into an expensive endeavor for the guys [...]
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 [...]