The Zillow Effect: Indiana's Real Estate Market Reacts To Zillow's Arrival

Webin 2007, zillow, one of the largest online real estate firms, invested in technology to transform into zillow 2. 0 by leveraging its ibuying machine learning. Webzillow's ibuying represents something to the effect of 0. 2% of the entire housing market. They've already said that there's institutional interest for the 7,000 or so.

Webshares of zillow have dropped nearly 20% since thursday as investors feared that lower commission rates for agents could lead to less business for the real. Webzillow’s announcement also gained mixed reactions from real estate brokers, who speculated and even criticized the ibuying activity and strategies that have.