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Zillow Tried To Screw Homebuyers...Got Screwed Themselves
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I think we’re all too familiar with just how expensive housing has gotten over the past few years. A lot of the price increases can be explained by low-interest rates and inflation, but a good amount of it also has to do with corporate meddling with the real estate market. At this point, it’s no secret that private equity firms and large investment funds have been buying up single-family homes to flip them or rent them out. This has made it extremely difficult for the average person to keep up with the spending power and purchasing power of these massive corporations. One corporation that also entered this game was Zillow. After seeing private equity firms pull it off and entire startups being built around the concept, Zillow decided to enter the house-flipping business. The stock market was initially skeptical if Zillow could pull it off, but they gave Zillow the benefit of the doubt. In the end, it turned out that Zillow could not pull it off. They would end up burning nearly a billion dollars and shutting down the business altogether. This video explains the story of how Zillow tried to enter the single-family flipping business only to get burned and never return.

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0:00 - The State Of Zillow
2:12 - Immediate Red Flags
5:34 - A Small Loss
8:42 - Getting Annihilated

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@DougBurgum4VP

4 weeks ago

There is increasing talk in Congress of banning corporations from buying single family homes. This market is primed for regulation.

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@ChevBling

4 weeks ago

I do not feel sorry for Zillow.

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@thelbtlover

4 weeks ago

Zillow tried to scam me. I asked for an offer from them to buy my house and they gave me a lowball offer (60% less than it was worth). I obviously said no, but after I rejected their offer, their "Zestimate" of my house, you know, the public estimated value of my house that prospective homebuyers see when they research the property, dropped from $720,000 to $220,000 (they offered me $250,000). If I had actually been trying to sell my house, this could have made me unable to do so because Zillow LIED and said my house was worth so little. I know the Zestimate is BS but that's what your average home buyer has to go by. Zillow was basically trying to make it so I HAD to accept their scam of an offer because their artificially low Zestimate value would have scared legitimate buyers away. This company should be completely dissolved and the owners put in prison.

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@mangodiet801

4 weeks ago

F Zillow, they're "Zestimate" is part of the reason why Housing is still way too overpriced

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@PuffinPass

4 weeks ago

So they set the standard for looking up average pricing in neighborhoods to help buyers, then they bought a bunch of real estate, inflated the value of property in the area and tried to cash in on an overinflated value set by themselves....did I get that right? That sounds like a case of very obvious market manipulation, shouldn't they be defending themselves in court at this point? I feel no sorrow for Zillow, the top end should be fighting not to go to jail and should be fined into the dirt.

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@mingchi1855

4 weeks ago

The part that Zillow agreed to offload their homes but to INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS is pure evil 100%. These homes should never be owned or even temporarily held by investing firms.

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@emills1417

4 weeks ago

Zillow let their competition takeover. Their site used to be good until they let people delete the sales history of properties and relist properties over and over without showing they had already been listed.

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@RobStevens64

4 weeks ago

Zillow learned the hard way what the rest of us already knew, which is that the Zestimate was a really flawed estimate with little relation to reality. By simplifying the selling process down so much, most of the sanity checks went out the window.

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@AdamEgret

4 weeks ago

Zillow sounds like it should be the name of a pillow company

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@MonsieurSansHonte

4 weeks ago

Algorithms. Nothing ever went wrong putting all eggs in that basket. 🤦‍♂️

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@ponraul1221

4 weeks ago

Gen Z has almost no chance in buying a home anytime soon. Rent of shoebox rooms cost more than mortgages of a decent house just a few years ago. Inflation and interest rates are skyrocketing. Wages are simultaneously shrinking in proportion. College degrees are the least valuable they ever have while costs are at an all time high. We're fucked.

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@ItsMeHammie

4 weeks ago

Oh no I feel so bad for the billionaires who were trying to pray on average people 😢

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@sunahamanagai9039

2 weeks ago

Housing is one of the necessities of life. One has the god given right to own a house if one worked hard enough to buy. For corporations to come in and flip them for profit is morally reprehensible. It's like a corporation buying up all the food in a grocery store and selling them to people at a markup. It's just a disgusting thing to do and the government should stop it.

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@user-dw1ls3rp1l

1 week ago

There was about 18 months there where Zillow was buying everything that hit their math targets per square foot, without regard for very localized external traits. These houses were "unsellable" because of things like: trashy neighbors, on a busy street, next to commercial/industrial lots, criminal activity, etc. We sold one of our rentals to Zillow in early 2019. This house couldn't attract quality renters due to a persistent drug house next door. Zillow offered us about 1% under the median square foot price, and we jumped at it.

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@katycatjulius

4 weeks ago

What they could have done is use the data to build the homes single families want in the place they want it and then sell it to them beforehand with profit building it after the sale

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@carlsojos

3 weeks ago

The fundamental thing that makes massive corporations less successful than local experts is fungibility. The concept that you can freely substitute between different examples of the same kind of thing is crucial to money, the norm for stocks and bonds and the ideal for commodities. On the flip side, segments like used cars and houses all have their own stories that affect the value of specific examples, so the coarse data-driven operations of companies that can't grasp the fine example-specific details are unable to adjust to the realities a local expert can see, resulting in self-inflicted information asymmetry.

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@radestein8548

4 weeks ago

Good video man keep it up

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@Michael_Brock

4 weeks ago

Just love it when greedy bean counters mess themselves up!! Zero creativity rightly deserves zero reward or even penalties.

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@gmoneystylez999

4 weeks ago

Anyone who watched Zillow and used it on a regular basis, knew Zillow estimates suck ass pretty regularly. Every realtor I’d had, explained its limitations and how inaccurate it regularly was. They also don’t remove listing the way Redfin does so houses stick out there forever when Redfin gets rid of them.

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@raymondcaylor6292

1 week ago

Zillow bought 2 homes in my neighborhood 4 year's ago. One for 566K they resold 11 months later for 528K plus paid for minimal fix-up ( paint, fixtures ) and lawn care. The other one they paid 440K and probably paid 150K in renovation costs and sold it 18 months later for 542K. Today those houses would sell for 610K with Zillow value 630-640K. You gotta get damn lucky to make a profit when you start the transaction 50-60K in the hole.

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