Open House List for Sunday 9/29/13
You can find the Interactive open house map here.
Address | Town | List Price | Time | Broker |
1465 E Putnam #625 | Old Greenwich | $369K | 2-4 PM | Raveis |
1 Douglas Drive | Greenwich | $649K | 1-4 PM | Berkshire Hathaway |
61 Greenwich Hills #61 | Greenwich | $675K | 2-4 PM | Raveis |
62 Valley Road | Cos Cob | $729K | 1-3 PM | Raveis |
3 Green Lane | Greenwich | $749K | 2-4 PM | Berkshire Hathaway |
35 Old Kings Hwy | Old Greenwich | $789K | 1-3 PM | Halstead Prop |
32 Cliff Avenue | Greenwich | $799K | 1-3 PM | FF Rlty |
70 Riverdale Avenue #701 | Greenwich | $869K | 2-4 PM | Coldwell Bnkr |
51 Forest Avenue #2 | Old Greenwich | $885K | 1-3 PM | Raveis |
40 Ettl Lane | Greenwich | $890K | 1-3 PM | Weichert |
14 Licata Terrace | Cos Cob | $1.139M | 2-4 PM | Anderson Assoc |
49 Indian Mill Road | Cos Cob | $1.295M | 1-4 PM | Raveis |
28 Mianus View Terrace | Cos Cob | $1.495M | 1-4 PM | Weichert |
25 Rustic View | Greenwich | $1.595M | 2-4 PM | Berkshire Hathaway |
30 Stag Lane | Greenwich | $1.595M | 1-4 PM | Raveis |
15 Linwood Avenue | Riverside | $1.599M | 1-4 PM | Weichert |
43 Stag Lane | Greenwich | $1.785M | 2-4 PM | Sotheby’s |
140 Shore Road | Old Greenwich | $1.87M | 2-4 PM | Raveis |
11 Angus Lane | Greenwich | $2.195M | 1-4 PM | Raveis |
47 N Stanwich Road | Greenwich | $2.299M | 1-3 PM | Raveis |
15 Palmer Terrace | Riverside | $2.599M | 1-3 PM | Raveis |
30 Sherwood Avenue | Greenwich | $2.85M | 1-3 PM | Berkshire Hathaway |
48 Lockwood Avenue | Old Greenwich | $2.95M | 3-5 PM | Raveis |
2 Buxton Road | Riverside | $2.95M | 12-3 PM | New England Land |
3 Hearthstone Drive | Riverside | $3.125M | 1-4 PM | Shore & Cntry Prop |
76 Cat Rock Road | Cos Cob | $3.195M | 2-4 PM | Coldwell Bnkr |
21 Winthrop Drive | Riverside | $3.45M | 1-4 PM | New England Land |
279 Stanwich Road | Greenwich | $3.495M | 2-4 PM | Sotheby’s |
43 Sterling Road | Greenwich | $3.495M | 2-4 PM | Sotheby’s |
16 Binney Lane | Old Greenwich | $3.745M | 2-4 PM | Raveis |
70 Lower Cross Road | Greenwich | $3.8M | 1-4 PM | Higgins Grp |
20 West End Avenue | Old Greenwich | $4.189M | 2-4 PM | Higgins Grp |
11 Cove Road | Old Greenwich | $4.9M | 1-4 PM | Berkshire Hathaway |
16 Dingletown Road | Greenwich | $5.095M | 12-2 PM | Ogilvy |
229 Bedford Road | Greenwich | $7.495M | 1-4 PM | Raveis |
Thanks to Rob Pulitano for preparing the list of open houses and the interactive map and Jared Randall for the hot links.
Comparison of Real Estate Website Open House Lists Completeness and Accuracy
– Trulia, Realtor.com, Zillow, GreenwichStreets et al
People are still better than computers when it comes to putting together a list of all the open houses in Greenwich. Each week Rob Pulitano searches a variety of places to find all the open houses in Greenwich on any given Sunday. The results for this Sunday are above.
Websites |
No. of Open Houses |
Out of Town |
Wrong Date |
Duplicate/No. Add |
Total Error |
Greenwich O.H.s |
Percent of O.H.s |
GreenwichStreets.com |
35 |
0 |
35 |
100% |
|||
Greenwich MLS |
27 |
1 |
1 |
26 |
74% |
||
Realtor.com |
36 |
15 |
15 |
21 |
60% |
||
Zillow.com |
19 |
1 |
1 |
18 |
51% |
||
Greenwich Patch RE |
10 |
0 |
10 |
29% |
|||
Trulia.com |
12 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
10 |
29% |
|
Greenwich Daily Voice |
9 |
3 |
3 |
7 |
20% |
||
OpenHouses.com |
3 |
0 |
3 |
9% |
|||
HomeFinder.com |
4 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
9% |
The list Rob put together has 35 open houses, 9 more than are listed in the Greenwich MLS and appear on the map below from GMLS available only to Realtors.
GMLS Open House Map for Sunday 9/29/13
Realtor.com Open House List
Some agents will put a full page ad in the Greenwich Time and forget to put the open house listing in the Greenwich MLS which means it won’t appear on Realtor.com.
Even if they don’t get some of the listing Realtor.com still does better than other computer prepared listings for number of open house listings. You might expect it to have the same number of listings as the GMLS since as the official National Association of Realtor’s website all MLS listings can be automatically fed to Realtor.com. In fact, however, many aren’t, since the listing agent doesn’t check the IDX feed box on the listing input form or doesn’t check the show address box on the form.
Now you might think that agents were withholding addresses to protect the homeowners privacy, particularly, with high end houses. Too often though the same house is dually listed on the Greater Fairfield County MLS but their the address is displayed. It’s simply that the GMLS default is not to display the address on the Internet while the CMLS default is to display the address. As a result Realtor.com has multiple duplicate open houses some with and some without addresses. Realtor.com also has a variety of GMLS only listing that show up on the open house list as “Address Not Available”. So you know the time for the open house just not where to go.
Realtor.com lists 36 open houses in Greenwich this Sunday, but they have by far the most duplicates and no addresses so a user will find only 21 usable open house listings. Realtor.com does have a very handy feature at the top of their open house map; a series of boxes that let you refine the search.
Websites |
No. of Open Houses |
Out of Town |
Wrong Date |
Duplicate/No. Add |
Total Error |
Net Greenwich O.H.s |
Percent of O.H.s |
GreenwichStreets.com |
35 |
0 |
35 |
100% |
|||
Greenwich MLS |
27 |
1 |
1 |
26 |
74% |
||
Realtor.com |
36 |
15 |
15 |
21 |
60% |
||
Zillow.com |
19 |
1 |
1 |
18 |
51% |
||
Greenwich Patch RE |
10 |
0 |
10 |
29% |
|||
Trulia.com |
12 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
10 |
29% |
|
Greenwich Daily Voice |
9 |
3 |
3 |
7 |
20% |
||
OpenHouses.com |
3 |
0 |
3 |
9% |
|||
HomeFinder.com |
4 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
9% |
Trulia and Zillow Open House Lists
Of the other two major sites, Zillow and Trulia, Zillow lists about half of the actual open houses and Trulia less than one-third of the open houses that we have today in Greenwich. Zillow, however, has the worst feature among all sites which is their prominently displayed “Zestimate”.
Zillow Open House Map and List 1
Take a look at the first listing above for 44 Glenville Road, listed for $4.45MM with a Zestimate of $3.83MM. It’s low, but not outrageous like the second property at 20 West End Avenue. This house is listed for $4,189,000, but the Zestimate is $1.9MM. Clearly, it’s way off, but some people actually believe it. We had a Zillow representative make a presentation to the Berkshire Hathaway office and said that the awful estimates are useful tool for opening a dialogue with the customer. The problem is that people see the estimate and never even bother to call an agent, because they believe the Zestimate is right and don’t even call to find out how bad it is.
Greenwich Patch, Greenwich Daily Voice, OpenHouses.com, and HomeFinder.com
All of these sites only have a few of the listings. Amazing that a site targeted to open houses such as OpenHouses.com doesn’t have many open houses, at least here in Greenwich.
If you know someone that wants to get the complete list of open houses every week, send us their email addresses and we will put them on the mailing list.