Zoinks, another Zillow blog post

Some stats on the uptake of Zillow's new features announced Wednesday (see Inman News story): Zillow today reported 70,464 total for-sale properties on the site and 35,930 "Make Me Move" prices on the site. This represents about 5,000 more for-sale properties than the site had earlier in the week. The company reported that the for-sale postings increased this week "via a combination of listing agents posting more homes and the community reporting homes for sale."

Agents, owners and builders have had the ability to post for-sale property information since December, and the features announced this week allow any Zillow user to point out to the world any for-sale properties and to enter price information for those properties.

You don't have to be the owner or agent representing the property to post this information, though owners and agents can take control of a for-sale property by notifying the site -- and owners and agents are allowed to post more details about a property than the unaffiliated real estate voyeur. If successful, the new tools will compel lots of agents and homeowners to designate properties for sale at the site before someone else does (a non-agent or yikes ... another agent).

Think: "Zoinks, Scoob, I better post my home/my client's home details up on the site before that screwball neighbor Old Man Jansen gets to it first." If it's not successful ... well, there's always Old Man Jansen, right?

The new features also allow social networking in the form of property questions and answers. Zillow today reported 765 questions and 265 answers posted at the site since this capability was announced Wednesday.

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