No doubt that it’s a buyer’s market. Home values have taken a hit in most markets throughout the nation and mortgage rates are relatively low. Plus, the government has offered up an $8,000 first-time home buyer tax credit, further sweetening the pot for any first-time home buyer out there.
The $8,000 tax credit has been a source of confusion by those who might be eligible, but aren’t quite sure if they fully meet the criteria. For example, do you know the definition of a “first-time home buyer” according to this tax credit offering? It doesn’t mean you’ve never owned a home before — it means to be eligible for this program, you cannot have owned a home for the past three years prior to purchase.
To help clear the confusion, we developed a new widget called:
“Do You Qualify for the $8,000 First-Time Home Buyer Tax Credit?”
It’s a quick, five-question quiz that consumers would find immensely helpful, if they happened to see it on your blog or Web site.
So, if you’re an agent looking to catch the interest of some first-time buyers, having a quiz like this on your site could help them, as well as develop a potential new client for you. Remember, content is king!
And like the many other Zillow widgets, it comes with co-branding, so if a reader follows through to Zillow from your page, your name, photo and contact information stays at the top of Zillow pages, so visitors can get back to you anytime they want!
Here are three of our latest widgets:
- Single-home value estimate
- Real estate market bottom poll
- Do you qualify for the $8,000 first-time home buyer tax credit?
Give us feedback on Zillow Widgets for Web sites section and tell us what you like or don’t like, or give us ideas for new widgets that you would want on your site.
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Unless you’ve been living under a rock, everyone knows that market conditions have been rough over the past year as the U.S. and much of the world attempts to recover from a recession.
Home values have dropped across the nation and mortgage rates are still in the low 5’s, so this is a prime opportunity to poll visitors to your blog or Web site on how they feel about the future.
By adding the new Zillow Market Bottom Poll widget, you can ask the question that’s on everyone’s minds:
“When will the real estate market hit the bottom?”
Install Market Bottom Poll widget on your site and you’ll find out.
This is just one of many Zillow Widgets that also offers free co-branding. So, if a user follows through to our site, your name, contact information and photo stays at the top of the screen.
All poll results are shared across all installations, and the results are updated dynamically.
Here are three of our latest widgets:
- Single-home value estimate
- Real estate market bottom poll
- Do you qualify for the $8,000 first-time home buyer tax credit?
Give us feedback on Zillow Widgets for Web sites section and tell us what you like or don’t like, or give us ideas for new widgets that you would want on your site.
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New Zillow Widget: When Will Real Estate Market Hit the Bottom? - NEW: Single Home Value Widget
A home valuation lookup has been the most common implementation of the Zillow API over the past few years; take a look at Yahoo! Real Estate, Ditech, RealEstateABC, and Southern Winds Realty for examples of this type of implementation. However, we realize not everyone has the technical resources to complete this type of custom integration.As a result, we’ve built a brand new single home value widget that adds this functionality to your website with a widget that can be copied and pasted onto your site.
You can choose either the iframe version (should work on most sites) or a script version. The widget is available in two sizes — 300 x 445 pixels (screenshot to right) or 160 x 410. For those who want to enable your visitors to look up a home value straight from your site without the technical work required to work with the API, the home value widget is the solution for you.
All our real estate and mortgage widgets also offer free co-branding. This means that if a user clicks over to Zillow.com, your name, contact information and photo stays at the top of the screen throughout their session.
Other new widgets:
Remember to give us feedback on the Zillow Widgets for Web sites section of Zillow Advice — who knows, maybe your idea will be the next widget we end up building.
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NEW: Single Home Value Widget - New Zillow Widget: “My Profile”
Here at Zillow, we’re doing our best to continuously roll out a solid set of useful real estate widgets that provides free information and data for your Web site.
Yes, social networking (read: Twitter, Facebook) can be entertaining, but to a lot of real estate professionals, the real meat-and-potatoes of online marketing efforts is a blog or Web site.
That’s why we’re pleased to announce more content you can add to your Web site or blog with the My Profile Widget. Your visitors can see your Zillow activity with this easy-to-use widget. It uses the RSS feed of your personal Zillow Profile to generate a list of your latest Zillow activities.
This is just one of many Zillow Widgets that also offers free co-branding. So, if a user follows through to our site, your name, contact information and photo stays at the top of the screen.
Give us feedback on our Zillow Widgets for Web sites section and tell us what you like or don’t like, or give us ideas for new widgets that you would want on your site.
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New Zillow Widget: “My Profile” - What Kind of Neighbor Are You?
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Neighbors can make or break a nice, enjoyable living situation. There are neighbors from hell, there are neighbors of faith, there are neighbors who play horseshoes naked, there are neighbors in high, political places and if you’re lucky (or, unlucky) there are celebrity neighbors.But the real test of what kind of neighbor you are occurs when incidents happen. Such as when Fido does his morning constitutional on your lawn and the owner doesn’t pick it up. What do you do? Erect a sign like the one above?
To see what kind of neighbor you are, take our “What Kind of Neighbor Are You?” quiz, which is a widget that can be be added to your Web site or blog — for free — as a fun and whimsical addition. As a matter of fact, there is one question in the widget about dog poop. Have fun!
Zillow Widgets
We have all kinds of real estate-related widgets you can add to your Web site or blog, including:
- Do you qualify for a loan modification?
- Do you qualify for a refinance under the Making Home Affordable Plan?
- See the latest mortgage rates with the Zillow Mortgage Rates widget
- See the Most expensive homes in your area widget
- Choose the celeb or celeb couple you want to live next to in the Celebrity neighbors poll
Check ‘em out and add them to your site — they’re free!
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What Kind of Neighbor Are You? - First-Time Home Buyer Tax Credit Fraud?
The General Accountability Office has reportedly frozen more than 110,000 first-time home buyer tax credit refunds pending civil or criminal examinations due to allegations of fraud. The main concerns are whether or not a home purchase actually took place and if the home buyer claiming the credit is technically a first-time home buyer as defined by the IRS.
In another article about the possible first-time home buyer tax credit fraud, reporter Dawn Kopecki reports that children as young as four years old have improperly received the first-time home buyer tax credit. And, according to the Treasury’s J. Russel George, who testified before Congress today:
They [IRS] also found that 580 taxpayers under 18 years old and therefore ineligible to buy a home claimed almost $4 million in tax credits.
The first-time home buyer tax credit ends Nov. 30, 2009. Here are a few resources that may help you if you are still trying to take advantage of the credit or want to learn more:
$8,000 First-time Home Buyer Tax Credit Ends Soon–Better Get Moving!
New Widget: Do You Qualify for the $8,000 First-time Home Buyer Tax Credit?
Rules and Forms in Place for $8,000 First-time Home Buyer Tax Credit
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First-Time Home Buyer Tax Credit Fraud?
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