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How Fast a Listing Loses Its Buyers When You Start High

Every agent has agreed to test a price to keep a listing, on the reasoning that you can always come down later. The number came out in open court, from the portal your seller refreshes every morning, and it is not attention you get back.

From this Week in Real Estate - tWiRE· July 9, 2026Open the source ↗
The Quick Take

Zillow is suing Compass, and at a hearing in that case Zillow's own chief industry development officer was put under oath and asked how listings actually perform on the site. He gave two numbers.

Day one
Almost 180 views
Day five
Down to 60 views a day

Two-thirds of the attention a listing will ever get is gone inside five days. And this is not a coach's estimate or a study somebody paid for — it is the portal's own executive, on the record, in a case Zillow itself brought.

Our Take

This is the cleanest argument for pricing right on day one you will get this year, and it isn't your opinion — it's Zillow's. It also kills the price "test, because the test spends the only week of real exposure the listing gets. A seller can argue with the first week matters most." They cannot argue with 180 to 60.

Do This
  1. Put the 180-to-60 drop on one slide in your listing presentation, sourced to the court testimony.
  2. Don't launch a listing that isn't finished — photos, staging, price. The launch week doesn't come back.
  3. Track your own day-one and day-five view counts so you have local numbers too.
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