Happy Halloween

October 31, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Happy Halloween!

Zillow employees absolutely love this holiday. Spooky, creepy, funny, and everything in between, the party planning has been going on for weeks. So, here’s a roundup of Halloween posts by real estate bloggers and some scary entries from Zillow Blog’s past.
•  360 Digest brings you House of Horrors that talks a bit […]

Blog Business Summit

October 31, 2006 | 7 Comments

Are you interested in learning how to leverage blogging for your business? If so, you should have been at Blog Business Summit last week! The conference spanned useful topics ranging from starting your 1st blog to the future of online communications. There was an impressive line-up of speakers (bloggers) and panelists, including Dave Taylor, […]

The 16th Edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is posted on Real Central VA. This week’s host, Jim Duncan, picked Jim Cronin’s Trade Secrets post as the pick of the week. There are 13 other posts highlighted that are worth a look.
The Carnival of Real Estate’s next host will be Landlord Schmandlord. Please submit […]

Zestimate Accuracy

October 27, 2006 | 50 Comments

There’s been a lot of chatter in the past few days about a letter sent to the Federal Trade Commission about Zillow.  The letter says that Zillow is misleading consumers about the accuracy of its data.
Here’s our take:We try really hard to be approachable and open about what we’re doing, and take all feedback seriously. […]

After weeks of sweat, blood and perhaps even a few tears, the team here at Zillow is excited to announce that our Open API is now open for business!  Check it out here or by clicking the “API Network” link on the site footer.
Zillow’s Open API allows any Web site to recreate a lot of […]

Last week we added a link to this blog on the Zillow home page and our daily readership grew nicely — If you are one of our new readers let me be the first to say;

This blog allows us to discuss Zillow in detail and some of our posts have value that outlasts the time […]

L-R: Drew Meyers, DG Christensen, Robert Scoble, Fred Sadaghiani, Bill Nordwall, Randy Puttick & Buzz Bruggeman
This morning myself and a few other developers had the privilege to sit down and geek out with Robert Scoble, who paid a visit to our offices along with Buzz Bruggeman. He also spent sometime with our CFO, […]

This Thursday night Zillow is throwing a “We’re Moving In Party” to officially announce the opening of our NYC ad-sales office.  If you are in the area, in the advertising industry, and interested in learning more about the company and potentially joining our team, come check it out!                      […]

Editor’s note: this is one in a series of "My Hometown" blog posts written by Zillow employees about the homes and towns where they grew up.
My hometown: Longmeadow, Mass.My home’s value in 1970: $55,000Zestimate today: $484,495
I started at Zillow about a month ago as the company’s first market manager and the first official San Francisco […]

The 15th Edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is now posted on HotPads Daily. In addition to "This Week’s Best," HotPads highlights the best post in 6 different categories — including the best "Humor" post, which is very clever — check it out! If those 7 posts won’t satisfy your real estate appetite, there […]

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