A title rep sent me an email today that gave me a head’s up on a new site I’d not seen before called www.Zilpy.com. It looks a heck of a lot like Zillow but with data on rents instead of home values. I’ve been playing around with it a bit and while I can’t figure out exactly yet how they’re getting the data, I’m intrigued. Most likely I’ll make mention of it to some of our investors to get their feedback on it as well and see if they think it’s a worthwhile site.
Check out the function of “heat maps” for rent levels in Washington. More states and cities are covered so it’s not just a Seattle gig. I believe it’s come to life from Silicon Valley.
“…while I can’t figure out exactly yet how they’re getting the data…”
From their Knowledgebase:
Zilpy aggregates data from most available sources including but not limited to: Googlebase, online classifieds such as Rent.com, private property management leasing data and also offline sources.
We cover about 75% of the US population in urban areas and offer especially very good coverage on top 100 US Metropolitan areas.
Pretty accurate for my rental in silicon valley…
It is a good site. Tells you which area you should buy homes in. You can always go to Ray at 500realty and save more.
A similar email was passed around our offices and mistakenly claimed it was affiliated with Zillow. My Zillow friends assure me there is no such affiliation. They may use some of Zillow’s API’s, but Zilpy is their very own entity. ……in case others were thinking the same thing.
interesting. I wonder why they’d pick such a similar name?