Just outside my subdivision there's a house with a relator for sale sign, but it does not come up on Zillow.
i still remember we had to go thru travel agency to get tickets cheaply
And as I real estate broker, I'd want to make sure government and the courts enforce my industry's long-term monopoly over the market and guarantees my profits!
Thankful to be a commercial broker and not deal with any of this, or MLS, NAR, lockboxes, empty-nest fatasses and the rest of the nonsense resi people put up with.
Believe it or not selling industrial/retail/land is so much easier.
The place I currently live was FSBO. We used an attorney to buy and it was easy-peasy. I don’t expect the place to come on the market again until after I’m dead.
I’d not want to be a buyer nor seller in the current real estate market.
Hopefully nothing to do with Eric Cartman Real Estate.
https://youtu.be/Iysw5I50Cr0?si=ty0H9gapfuWDy-xb
The usual South Park language warnings but it is funny.
What is at issue here are what are referred to as pocket listings. Pocket listings are basically listings by brokers that do NOT go on the MLS. The reason is that the seller is willing to sell, but not fully committed to it. Another term for this is a “make me move” listing. Pocket listings typically get a price higher than typical market, specifically because the seller will not sell unless they get what they want. The last thing the seller wants is a record of how many days they were on market at a specific price without selling, because if they ever do sell, that could be used against them to drive down the price. I would often use pocket listings on properties that I was flipping. It was essentially preselling the house so that once I completed the work it was already sold.
And if I was a home buyer I would be resistant to any attempted platform that enables greater price fixing for infalted housing prices.
I had a big problem with Zillow just last month. Made the difficult and emotional decision to sell a large chunk of hunting property. Went with a major agency that specializes in the same. When the listing popped up on Zillow they had incorrect information about my land displayed. This property has been in the family since 1952. The land below me has changed hands multiple times. That parcel sold 2 years ago for $120k. My parcel is literally 20 times larger and 5 times more expensive to purchase. So….zillow had my place as being sold 2 years ago for $120k. It took my realtor, the MLS manager lady for our area, and nearly an act of God to get it removed. Hopefully it didn’t cause any prospective buyers to turn away. I was not happy. Sloppy work on Zillows part.
The idea behind a multiple listing service (MLS) was to have brokers cooperate to the client’s advantage. More exposure usually equals more offers from which to choose.
Zillow covers a wider range of options than the big agents do and better prices.
Worth looking into if on the house hunt.
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This happened to me. We called our realtor to say we were ready and she had a full-price offer immediately. We still had to list the house if only for a few minutes.
Compass agent sold my house in may. It was listed with KW. When i sold real estate, we were required, at the time to send the listing to the local board of realtors for inclusion in what was then the book. We would sometimes hold the listing to be sure everyone in house got a chance to see the house first. I guess this is like that.