he Shire.

Since my uncle Ron has been developing "The Shire" for a couple of years, I really have no excuses for not being the first to break this story. This community in Bend, Oregon, as described on its website, "has many flavors of eighteenth century English architecture and landscaping chosen because the style of [...]

Interested in tracking the value of your neighborhood? If you have use a personalized Google news page, there is now a Google “Gadget” you can add that delivers the Zindex for a certain area. Amit Chaudhary, a developer who worked with our API, developed the gadget and explains how to add the Zindex gadget to [...]

The New York Times recently ran a piece in their Ask the Contractor section (membership required to read article) about renovating for the purpose of adding value to a home.  According to the contractors interviewed, the biggest bang for your buck comes from… drumroll, please… remodeling your kitchen.  No surprise here since the kitchen seems [...]

The 10th Edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is now up on the BlueRoof.com Blog. In addition to the pick of the week, Greg chose to highlight six other top picks from the 32 blog entries submitted this week. Please take the time to look at the great selection of content!

The Carnival of Real [...]

In July, we announced our Open API, due for launch later this fall. More than 200 developers have been granted early access to the interfaces and their Zestimates, graphs and property information. A bunch of people have already built some cool stuff.
Today, we launched a space for this developer community to collaborate with each other [...]

Recently, the U.S. Census Bureau released its annual snapshot of economic health of the U.S., so we decided to have some fun by digging into the newly released Community Sourcebook Data that also contains U.S. Census information, plus much more. It was easy to get lost in the data for hours at a time, but [...]

Sometimes you just never know what your neighbor has in his house, or below it, for that matter. Up in Blaine, WA, a town of about 5,000 located in the northwestern-most tip of the contiguous U.S., is a very normal-looking house with an unusual twist: 45 feet under it is a 1,400-square foot underground [...]

The 9th Edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is now up on the Real Estate Tomato. With 38 blog entries submitted, the Top 12 posts are highlighted by the Tomato Edition of the Carnival. Please take the time to look at the great selection of content, including the pick of the week!
The Carnival [...]

Photo courtesy Snohomish County, www.snohomish.org
My Hometown: Mukilteo, WA 98275 Approximate value in 1989: $270,000 Zestimate today: $619,980
I grew up in Mukilteo, WA, a small waterfront community about 25 miles north of Seattle.  The city’s famous landmarks include the Mukilteo Lighthouse on Possession Bay and the Mukilteo-Whidbey Island ferry.  Located just minutes from [...]

If you’ve ever shopped at IKEA,
you’ll understand the importance of reading their instructions before
assembling your new furniture. Same with a new cell phone, digi-cam or ipod.
So, when you use automated
valuation modeling software, you read the manual … right?
Yes, I’m talking about Zillow’s user’s manual. To get
there, just click on the big “How To Use Zillow” [...]

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