Nichols, IA Real Estate & Homes for Sale | realtor.com® (2024)

FAQs

Why is realtor com so different from Zillow? ›

Zillow casts a wider net, attracting more leads through pay-per-impression advertising while potentially sacrificing quality with its inclusion of unverified FSBO listings. Realtor.com boasts higher quality leads through targeted paid programs for pre-qualified buyers but demands higher per-lead costs.

Redfin vs. Zillow: Redfin is more accurate when valuing homes. Both Zillow and Redfin give homes an approximate value, but the Zestimate provided by Zillow has proven slightly less accurate than Redfin's estimate.

Spring is generally viewed as the best time of the year to buy a house if you want to choose from a large inventory. Homes also tend to present better in the warmer months – plants are in bloom, and lawns are green, so this is a popular time for sellers to put their houses on the market.

Oshkosh, Wisconsin has the nation's hottest housing market

The city received 3.7 times more views per property in July than the national average. Despite mortgages rising in 2022 and home prices remaining high across the country, the Midwest actually became a hotspot for buyers.

Zillow is owned and operated by Zillow Group, a publicly traded company. Realtor.com is owned by parent company Move, Inc. In 2014, Move was sold to the media corporation Newscorp with the Australian company currently owning 80% of the shares in Move, while the Australian specialist portal company REA Group owns 20%.

While numerous websites aggregate home listings through highly condensed versions of MLS listings, realtor.com® is by far the most comprehensive, with 99% of all MLS-listed “for sale” properties in the U.S. (And to further toot our own horn: Our listings are also the most accurate and up to date.

Realtors use the MLS because it has more information, more accurate information, and most importantly the non-public information most relevant to the agent and their buyer. While Zillow may have 40-90 fields of information about the property, the average MLS listing has over 200.

Why is there a big difference between Zillow and Redfin? ›

Zillow is not a brokerage—it is an online real estate listing site. Contrary to Redfin, transactions don't happen through Zillow; it's a source to find listings. Sellers or agents manually list properties on the site; they're not automatically pulled from the MLS.