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If Zillow competes with Realtor.com , will (and how will) some of the folks at NAR … position the Seattle company as bad for the industry?
…Rather than treat it as such and ensure that it is the comprehensive source of data, we have gotten comfortable and used to having a great source of information; complacency in any profession or industry will inevitably lead to failure.
A lot has changed in the real estate tech space, but the real estate business remains a belly-to-belly business, with client relationships solidified with handshakes and time spent together in the car, in houses, at the coffee shop. 
Zillow’s presence in the Charlottesville real estate market is negligible; in spite of this I’ve always considered them another tool in the good Realtor’s toolbox. … I for one, have welcomed the opportunity to answer this. (more in a later post) Brian Boero at 1000Watt Blog offers this kick ass post on Zillow’s three year anniversary – (bolding mine/read the whole thing) The real estate industry owes Zillow a debt of gratitude, whatever their fate may be.
My thinking is this – search for homes here or here , and then do more research at one of the places below, as well as the respective localities’ websites for tax records, GIS information, etc. … 
Trulia has 285 homes . 
Zillow has 91. 
Cyberhomes has 53 homes for sale . 
I’ll take function over form every day of the week. * as of 11 September 2008.
Realtor.com has the opportunity to leverage their tenuous data advantage and position themselves ahead of the competition. Their current tactic of emulating rather than differentiating is not a positive sign.
And the results are fantastic . The data is a hair out-dated, but you can still get a very good feel for the walkability of a location. A sincere thank you to Zillow for making their neighborhood boundaries open source , and to Walk Score for their site … might “Bike Score” be in the works?
Seeking to control the information is pas s̩ . Related РWhat if Zillow is right?