DOM on real estate search sites - changed?!?

[Daria B.]

Hi Bpers,

I use realtor.com, Zillow, and trulia to name a few sites for searching homes.

A couple in particular I've saved and have been doing research on.

"Today" I pulled up one property and found the DOM as 2 days. ???

How can that be when I know this property has been for sale for some time (I don't have exact days/months but I drove by and I already talked to a realtor about it and it has been at least a few months).

It appears it was pulled and re-listed (although on Zillow that usually says when it was relisted, just has one entry as though it's new for the last 2 days).

I'm not sure what's going on and I know these sites are subjective on the information. I see a lot of discussion about Zillow in particular and not relying on the "zestimates" and such.

Is the realtor company setting this up to make it appear as though it's actually "new" when it's now. That's well....deceptive? :/

So is this the norm on these sites? I'm using them more and more to find out information to have something more solid before I even talk to my agent.

Would a change in seller realtors trigger an update like this?

Thank you