Boston Real Estate for Sale 2021
As you may already know, Zillow Group Inc. which runs the largest U.S. home-search website, announced that their CEO will be stepping down, and the founder will be taking over. Could it be because their until recently dropped 46 percent from 2020?
Bloomberg has this article on Spence stepping down at Zillow yesterday:
Zillow wants the entire pie
Zillow must believe that advertising real estate agents ads and flipping homes are their future:
They’re finding out that flipping isn’t as easy as it looks though. In addition, realtors aren’t spending as they used to on Zillow ads
In August 2018, the company said that it was taking longer than anticipated to sell the homes it acquires. Three months later, it reported that some advertising customers were pulling their business because they disliked changes to the platform. Shares in the company, which peaked at $65.21 in June, plummeted to a low of $27 in November 2018.
Agents may have told Zillow that they were pulling their business because of changes in the platform, but that won’t be the end of it. As the number of home sales declines nationally, realtors will slow or stop spending money – starting with the very expensive Zillow ads.
Boston Real Estate and the Bottom Line
Zillow still says they love realtors, but we’ll see about that. Once their advertising income declines, will they still love downtown Boston real estate agents? I looked into Zillow ads for just one zip code within Beacon Hill, the price was $2,800 per month. Really? I think I’ll pass on that one Zillow.
The next few years are going to be exciting. Will Zillow still be calling me in 2019? Will they expand their real estate buying and flipping program into the Boston area? It may work when business is booming, what happens when it slows down? Zillow may be stuck with a lot of Boston condos for sale.
