sure, and that would be great, but unfortunately it's more likely this is going to be sold to Invitation Homes Inc or a similar company that will just turn them

sure, and that would be great, but unfortunately it's more likely this is going to be sold to Invitation Homes Inc or a similar company that will just turn them into rentals and they'll never enter the housing market for sale. Invitation Homes was created after the last crash and currently owns ~80k [1] homes, so an additional 7k would represent ~10% more, and if the discount is right from Zillow they will do it. I'm speculating but I bet that's why Zillow is trying to do this in a bigger deal, they don't want to crash the housing market by actually selling these houses to individuals. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invitation_Homes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invitation_Homes