ARG Announcement

ARG Abbott Realty Group Broker and President Jim Abbott explains why ARG listings will no longer be permitted on 3rd party syndicator sites such as trulia, zillow, and realtor.com

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[dschneider314]

There's a point that everyone is missing. One lists a home with an agent. That person did not explicitly say "hey show this listing to everyone in the entire US, and make sure that there's some wildly inaccurate estimate as to my home value displayed"

They could be hurting your home sale and an entire neighborhood!

Data syndication is NOT the right way for data like this to be disseminated.

[BoC1971]

What are the 3rd party sites ultimate goal? They exist only to pull valuable data, not pay for it, then sell it back to the same Realtors who just spent their own money on putting together the marketing. That's it. All that does is introduce more costs to selling the home in the first place, and provide confusing, inaccurate data. It may seem convenient to use zillow, etc. but there are thousands of Realtor websites connected directly to the IDX, with accurate information, not bad zestimates.

[webb4Brevard]

Zillow, Trulia, and Realtor.com have taken us one step closer to Real Estate Ebay. Stock brokers thought obsolescence couldn’t happen to them. Realtors are next.The public will lose a valuable ally in buying and selling, Govt will step in to fill the void.

Listers who think a little "free" advertising is more important than the long-term health of our industry do a dis-service to the public and display a selfish short-term suicidal attitude.

[MsJoeyLoftis]

If agents spent half as much time serving their clients as they do protecting the data maybe people would stop thinking they make too much money. Marketing is part of what they get paid for, and these are the top sites buyers use. Unbelievable.

[grimydazzle]

He should rename his brokerage argh.com

[grimydazzle]

Is that a weapon in his hand?

[donnarob30121]

Kudos to ARG for pulling the plug on Realtor.com and the others. Real estate agents, are NOT real-a-tors until forced to pay the high membership dues in order to be allowed to use their local MLS and do business. Realtor.com has been using the agents own money to build the site, then charge those same agents high fees to advertise on the site. It's about time the brokers realized what a crock this is, and how the local agents are being taken advantage of by their so called "trade association".

[victorblund]

Interesting YouTube video from Howard Hanna. They are also turning off syndication to most sites - but partnering deeply with 2. One of them is Zillow. Hoby Hanna announced this in a video blog post that you can visit here on youtube. Just search Hoby Hanna and it pops right up as the top post

[kingsjstur]

Is this a joke? I use all three of "the big three" and get a closing a week. He's a dinosaur and if he had it his way, the consumer would have to use a Realtor to gain any knowledge about a home. If he thinks that 99% of his market doesn't start their search on the internet he's fooling himself and making a gross mistake for his company and agents. What a clown.

[LocalSDhomes]

@MultiBMizzle its not that simple. I could have the best website ever but google ranks websites on traffic. Since these other sites are national they are open to way more traffic. I will never be able to have my site seen because I only have local listings in San Diego County. Plus there marketing allowance is tremendous compared to my own. This is like comparing a local mom and pop store to Walmart. The local store will give you a much better experience.

[MultiBMizzle]

@LocalSDhomes - But you can't do a better job - or you would have the traffic. What good does it do you to have all of the "up-to-date" information on a site nobody will ever see?

[LocalSDhomes]

@MultiBMizzle the data does come from somewhere and that is me. The way websites use or update that data is in there control. For example if I was to take a listing and update the price or take it off the market zillow doesn't update that portion of the data sometimes and that is where errors come about. The point is that I know I can do a better job with my own website than any of these 3rd party sites because it is in the best interest to my clients an consumers alike.