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Zillow Surfing 2.0: Real estate giant uses AI to beef up virtual touring tool February 16, 2021 at 10:39 pm Zillow Surfing just got an upgrade. Zillow Group on Wednesday rolled out a new feature for its virtual tour experience that uses machine learning to pull together various media content with an interactive floor plan. The idea is to make it easier for homebuyers to get a feel for a property without actually visiting in person. “It allows the shopper to have a deeper, more authentic sense of home,” said Josh Weisberg, VP of Zillow’s Rich Media Experience team. Virtual tours have bee...

Inman Connect Nick Bailey, the chief customer officer at RE/MAX has a message for real estate agents and brokers who are spinning in the wake of Zillow announcing it would be acquiring ShowingTime, a real estate tour scheduling and data company, for $500 million. Nick Bailey | Photo credit: RE/MAX “Don’t panic,” Bailey said Monday morning, during a virtual town hall session hosted on the company’s Facebook page. “This is a technology company acquiring a technology company to create access to properties,” Bailey said. “I’m sure they will innovate, iterate and evolve it.” Bail...

Inman Connect Within minutes of Zillow’s announcement Wednesday that it is acquiring showing management and analytics company ShowingTime for $500 million, dozens of real estate agents began weighing in to express frustration with the deal, as well as concerns about what it means for their data. Ed Bohrer Ed Bohrer, a Coldwell Banker broker in Libertyville, Illinois, was among them. Bohrer told Inman that in the past he has used ShowingTime to manage appointments with clients, but that he now plans to abandon the platform. “I won’t use it now,” Bohrer said. “When I put in my listing...

Zillow Group said it will pay $500 million to acquire ShowingTime, a Chicago-based real estate company that sells software to facilitate home showings.

Zillow Group tops Q4 estimates with $789M in revenue as housing boom drives record traffic February 16, 2021 at 10:26 pm Zillow Group CEO Rich Barton. (GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota) Seattle-based Zillow Group beat analyst estimates for its fourth quarter earnings, reporting $789 million in revenue and non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.44. Analysts expected revenue of $740 million and earnings per share of $0.27. Zillow on Wednesday also announced that it will pay $500 million to acquire ShowingTime, a Chicago-based real estate company that sells software to facilitate home showings. Zi...