Zillow.com, the website that provides “Zestimates” of home values for properties in the U.S. has now enabled new features that allow homes to be listed for sale. This is the next logical step for Zillow as they try to gain a foothold as the place to go for home information. More on that later.
For Sale listings can be entered both by home owners and also by Listing Agents. Oddly, there is also something called “Make Me Move”, where owners can “tell others the price you’d be willing to sell your home for, without actually putting it on the market. It’s that magical number you just can’t refuse.” Zillow says, “Once you set your Make Me Move price, potential buyers can contact you anonymously via e-mail. Then it’s up to you whether or not to sell your home.”
I predict the “Make Me Move” feature won’t last long. Every kook in the Country will be placing a MMM price of triple the value of the home and it will eventually turn out that nobody will take it seriously. Also, once Owners realize that 9 out of 10 emails they receive are from people saying “please provide your absolute bottom dollar price and email more pictures”, owners will pull their MMM listings pretty fast. Zillow should just stick to posting homes either for sale or not, and leave out this weird “Make Me Move” category.
But with regard to the For Sale part of it, I decide to enter a listing to see how it works. Here’s how it went.