Coldwell Banker’s new tech predicts who’s about to list their home for sale

By Marian McPherson | Source Inman News

The company’s new tool CBx Seller Leads uses big data, predictive analytics and machine learning to identify homeowners who are most likely to sell

Earlier this week, Coldwell Banker announced the launch of CBx Seller Leads, a tool that uses big data, machine learning and predictive analytics to help Coldwell Banker affiliated agents identify potential sellers and convert them into clients — before these people have even expressed an outright interest in listing their homes for sale or even requested a price estimate.

“What we’ve built with CBx Seller Leads and the entire CBx Technology Suite, is all about empowering brokers and agents, so they can effectively use big data to generate more leads, close more sales, be more productive and turn a higher profit,” said Coldwell Banker Charlie Young in a statement.

Just like CBx Listing Experience, a platform that helps agents and sellers set a competitive listing price and identify potential buyers, CBx Seller Leads utilizes big data to accurately identify sellers on the cusp of listing their home. CBx Listing Experience pulled publicly available information from ESRI, Experian, OnBoard Informatics, Realtors Property Resources (RPR) and the U.S. Census Bureau to create buyer profiles.

In a phone call with Inman, VP of product marketing and communications Zoë Horneck said CBx Seller Leads will pull information from some of those same sources, but this time, Coldwell Banker will primarily rely on data culled by two, large proprietary algorithms.

The aggregated data will include publicly available sales information not only from Coldwell Banker, but from other brokerages, and demographic data to help flag households that are most likely to list, such as young, growing families looking for a larger home or retirees who want to downsize. From there, the proprietary predictive analytics tool kicks in to determine how likely a seller will list.

Furthermore, CBx Seller Leads also supplies agents with information predicting the amount of time it will take a home to sell if they list it at a certain price point.

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