Spencer's Blog
This is my blog where I discuss things I find interesting, including: real estate, venture capital, entrepreneurship, economics and pop culture.
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Here's the link to my appearance on GMA from this weekend.
10/26/2009
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I often get emails asking this question, and usually the answer is one of these three reasons: 1) When creating an account on Zillow, it is essential that the agent register as a professional, not a standard user. When we get a listing feed, we match the email address on the listing with th...
10/22/2009
We changed the user interface on Zillow for looking at photos on the Map & List page the other day, and it's pretty slick. The new site design makes it more important than ever to include all of your listing's photos -- we allow up to 50 photos. Take a look:
10/20/2009
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This study, "Booms and Busts in Housing Markets", from the European Central Bank (July 2009) provides an interesting look at housing cycles abroad. Specifically, it looks at long term trends in 18 countries from 1980-2007. Like most academic papers, it doesn't provide any earth-shattering analysi...
10/19/2009
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One way to gauge the strength of a local real estate market is to look at the variance between the last listing price and the final sale price. Remember the good old days when homes actually sold for MORE than asking price? Ah, memories. In the graph below, I compare list-to-sale price ratios ove...
10/13/2009
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In honor of my Miami Dolphins' victory over the evil New York Jets tonight.... Here is the Zillow Home Value Index for Miami vs New York. As you can see, home values in New York (the yellow line) are well above the national average (the red line), while the steep decline in Miami home values has ...
10/12/2009
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Here's the analysis of foreclosures moving upscale. The startling headline is this -- in 2006, the top 1/3 most expensive homes in each local area made up 16% of foreclosures. Today, the top 1/3 of homes make up 30% of foreclosures. And here's the video from Bloomberg TV today discussing this and...
10/12/2009
Zillow recently launched a Local Info tab which delivers a wealth of information at the national, state, city or even neighborhood and zip code level. For example, you can see percentage of homes that have experienced a price drop or value per square foot. There is also data available such as d...
10/08/2009
