I coined the term unzillowable in this post on August 13, 2006 and described it the next day in this post. The first real estate listing to use the word was by Jay Thompson in Arizona.
Unzillowable, adjective (un zil’ o bull): unable to be valued by the popular website zillow.com.
“This state-of-the-art mansion in Texas, […]
Conducting an environmental investigation for hazardous and toxic waste is normally beyond the scope of a real estate agent or broker. But not to worry. The US Environmental Protection Agency has a website which lets you search by zip code to determine if any environmental hazards, toxic waste facilities, polluted waterways and Superfund sites are […]
New York City’s 311 service is designed to help answer its citizens’ questions and complaints.
The 311 Customer Service Center provides non-emergency government information and services. In order to improve the transparency of services being provided to the public, the Office of Operations and the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications will regularly report 311-generated information […]
In the name of transparency, is a real estate listing agent required to disclose rotten neighbors to prospective buyers or renters? Should a listing agent do it anyway? Would disclosure be in keeping with the fiduciary duty to the seller/client? Rotten tenants are as unzillowable as traffic noise and odors in determining […]
via Robert Melton’s Pittsburgh Homes Daily. And we thought unzillowable was catchy.
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The alleged window used by Lee Harvey Oswald to assassinate John F. Kennedy has been sold for $3 million. The Texas Schoolbook Depository is privately owned and the family sold the window on e-bay. Sometimes, even a window can be unzillowable because of its provenance.
Source: BBC News.
Briny Breezes mobile homeowners are being offered a million dollars each for their homes. Why? Because these owners OWN the land their homes sit on. And that land is located between the Atlantic Ocean coastline and the Intercoastal Waterway. With 200 acres frontage on the Atlantic and 400 on the IC, it’s […]
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Google’s bought its historic birthplace garage, with attached home (pictured above), for an undisclosed amount, reported the Washington Post. Similar homes in the area sell in the $1.1-1.3 million range. This story reminded us of another famous unzillowable “garage sale“. Back in 2000, Hewlitt Packard bought the 12×18′ Garage, […]
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WARNING: MAY BE INAPPROPRIATE
Has any real estate agent ever experienced a buyer testing the accoustics of a space like this? Or maybe you had a buyer who’s a singer or musician testing the accoustics? How important are accoustics to buyers?
While Greg & Ardell were making history yesterday, so was this innovative real estate broker. In what appears to be the world’s first and only property listing containing the term “unzillowable”, Jay & Francy Thompson, Realtors, Century 21 Aware Realty, listed this Arizona property on the MLS.
You may know Jay by his blog, The […]
