Archive for October, 2006

On Tuesday I had the honor of speaking at the California REALTOR® EXPO 2006, the state’s largest real estate trade show (10,000+ attend).  I presented on a panel called Futurecast: Visionaries Discuss Technology in a Shifting Market.  CAR Executive Vice President Joel Singer, moderator for the panel, opened with an overview of the changes taking […]

Everyone knows someone who gets a little crazy around Halloween; they design their costume months in advance, spend hours in the office planning the perfect Halloween party and carve seemingly impossible pumpkins that take hours of preparation.  But today, a Seattle resident took this obsession to a new level. 
The folks behind the Capitol Hill […]

Every lawyer studies property rights in the first year of law school, but this basic education rarely makes for cocktail chatter.  That’s changed this fall.  Home owners, property developers, environmentalists, local government officials, and pundits are up in arms over a variety of property rights measures on the ballots in many states. 

(Castle Coalition […]

We are happy to report today that both ZipRealty, a national full-service real estate brokerage, and Redfin, an online real estate brokerage with listings in Seattle and San Francisco, recently integrated Zillow’s functionality into their Web sites by using Zillow’s API.
With ZipRealty, customers can compare the price per square foot of the home based on […]

The 14th Edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is now posted on the Inman News Blog. The Inman staff picked the top 10 posts from last week’s submissions, so take a look!
The Carnival of Real Estate’s next host will be Hotpads Daily. Please submit your best post by Sunday, October 22, to be considered. […]

By next week, the 300-millionth person will have been born in the USA. Or, at least that’s the calculation the U.S. Census Bureau is putting out there on this little dynamic counter that clicks off our growing population. Their stats show one person is born every 7 seconds and one person dies every 13 […]

Pumpkins are popping up everywhere, candy bowls are being stocked and readied, and the little munchkins are planning their costumes. Yes, it’s almost that spooky, scary, and just plain creepy time of year.
Plus, today is that most frightful of days — Friday the 13th! Thus we thought it’s the perfect day to unveil our new […]

After the recent announcement of our partnership with Yahoo! Real Estate in which we provide Yahoo! with Zestimates, comparable homes and Zindex data, we Zillow Lab rats began tossing around ideas about how to further showcase information on home values to Yahoo! users. We landed on the idea of a Yahoo! Widget. What’s a […]

Now I know how McDonald’s felt whenever they updated their marquee from “60 billion served” to “70 billion served.” Evidently, they stopped keeping track of how many burgers were sold a while ago, but it became one of those stats that stuck in your brain — even as a 12-year-old.
So, what does McDonald’s have to […]

"Animal House" photo courtesy Hollywood Teen Movies
College students are settling in, dominating desks and chairs at coffee shops near campus, tapping away on apple-emblazoned laptops as little white umbilical cords sprout from their ears. Meanwhile, picture their parents at work struggling to pay for tuition and a room in a house shared by four […]