Zillow Talk, Spencer Rascoff
Zillow Talk, Spencer Rascoff
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Zillow Talk
Rewriting the Rules of Real Estate

Author: Spencer Rascoff, Stan Humphries

Narrator: Spencer Rascoff

Unabridged: 6 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/27/2015

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

How do you spot an area poised for gentrification? Is spring or winter the best time to put your house on the market? Will a house on Swamp Road sell for less than one on Gingerbread Lane? The fact is that the rules of real estate have changed drastically over the past five years. To understand real estate in our fast-paced, technology-driven world, we need to toss out all of the outdated truisms and embrace today's brand new information. But how?

Enter Zillow, the nation's #1 real estate website and mobile app. Thanks to its treasure trove of proprietary data and army of statisticians and data scientists, led by chief economist Stan Humphries, Zillow has been able to spot the trends and truths of today's housing market while acknowledging that a home is more than an economic asset. In Zillow Talk, Humphries and CEO Spencer Rascoff explain the science behind where and how we live now and reveal practical, data-driven insights about buying, selling, renting and financing real estate. Read this book to find out why:

It's better to remodel your bathroom than your kitchen
Putting the word "cute" in your listing could cost you thousands of dollars
You shouldn't buy the worst house in the best neighborhood
You should never list your house for $444,000
You shouldn't list your house for sale before March Madness or after the Masters

Densely packed with entertaining anecdotes and invaluable how-to advice, Zillow Talk is poised to be the real estate almanac for the next generation.

Reviews

Goodreads review by David on January 24, 2016

This book is intended for those who want to sell, buy, or rent a home. If you are in one of these boats, then you are probably familiar with the immensely popular zillow.com web site. This web site is one of the first (or perhaps the first) tool that brings enormous banks of information to homeowner......more

Goodreads review by Antonio on May 28, 2017

This book is a nice and different tool to understand the behaviour of the residential real estate market in the US. It offers a wide range of facts that aren't normally taken into account when in a transaction of this sort (buy/sell a house). It is a fresh outlook on how to approach the real estate b......more

Goodreads review by Rolando on February 17, 2015

Not a good book. Just dumb. Written in the style of Freakonomics. Taking each chapter to expound on a subject totally unrelated to other chapters in the book. From the words to use in describing your listing to explaining how New York real estate is different to shaming waterfront property buyers be......more

Goodreads review by Susan on February 20, 2015

Does an overall good job of interpreting and presenting Zillow's daunting mountain of data in a way that an average person can understand. Quite useful when determining pricing of a house for sale, in particular. Caution is warranted, though, with the absolute certainty the authors convey with their......more

Goodreads review by Andy on February 18, 2015

If you are a House Hunter fanatic like me, you will really enjoy this book. Interesting facts.....like the best week to list your house. The authors share their view of the real estate world with humor and well presented data. One negative is that they do talk up their online service to some extent.......more

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