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September 26, 2007

Our New Seller Dashboard

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As a home seller, have you ever wondered how many people were actually interested in your home or who has viewed your home on the internet? Up until now, the only way to gauge interest in your home from buyers was to either talk with your agent about the number of other agents who have shown your house (usually in the form of business cards left from the cooperating agent), count the number of people who showed up for the Sunday open house, or determine interest level based on the rate at which flyers disappeared from the flyer box in your front yard.

For home sellers, we’ve now added another way to gauge the interest level in your home, based on what homes our buyer clients are looking at. As a current home seller, you can now login into your ZipRealty.com account and view the following information about your for sale home:

  • Home Detail Views – as a ZipRealty seller client, your home has its own, individual webpage on our website. As one method to gauge your home’s popularity, we now display the actual number of times that your home has been viewed on our website.
  • Visits Scheduled –  sellers can now view the number of home visits that have been scheduled by ZipRealty buyers to see your home. Keep in mind that this statistic does not count the number of home visits scheduled by other real estate brokerages.
  • Added to My Homes – sellers can see how many times their home has been added to the “MyHomes” section of other ZipRealty buyers. The “MyHomes” section usually contains homes that ZipRealty buyers are interested in and would like to keep an eye on (similar to bookmarking a webpage).
  • Relative Interest – our relative interest level ranks the number of views your home has received relative to the home views of other homes in the area for the past 30 days. A relative interest level of 10 means that your home is in the top 10% of homes viewed in the area for the month.


September 17, 2007

Home Ratings and Reviews

Today's Contra Costa Times had an article featuring real estate websites that allow users to contribute and share information with each other about various real estate topics.

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Last summer, we launched the ability for our users to rate and review homes for sale. If you've ever wondered what other people thought of a house or if you would like to offer your own opinion on a house, this feature is for you. The number of homes which are reviewed on our site is growing everyday. To use this feature, all you need to do is to click on the "Client Reviews" icon on top of any home detail page.

We look forward to hearing your thoughts!

September 13, 2007

Latest Housing Figures - August 2007: Wall Street Journal

The September 13, 2007 edition of the Wall Street Journal Online has the latest housing inventory figures for several metropolitan areas. According to the article, which uses data we've compiled, the supply of homes increased 1.80% from the end of July 2007 to the end of August 2007.

The metro areas of Seattle, San Francisco and San Diego exhibited the highest gains in home inventory.

Here is a link to the full report.

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