Many of us, specifically those on the west coast, live near fault lines and are at risk of being impacted by an earthquake in our lifetimes. With their homes being most people’s single largest investment, it’s realistic to ask yourself — would my house survive an earthquake? To get a better sense of […]

The 20th Edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is now posted at Real Estate Investing for Real. With a light week of submissions due to the holiday festivities, Joshua chose to highlight the 4 posts that he deemed most relevant to real people (not just bloggers).
The Carnival of Real Estate’s next host will […]

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Happy Thanksgiving from all of us here at Zillow!  We have a lot to be thankful for these days — from the awards and positive feedback we have received about what we’re doing, to our stellar location, cool staff, and of course, the free drinks. We are humbled to be rated […]

As the shortened work week winds down, here’s some interesting blog posts and other news that I don’t have time to cover in detail. Enjoy.

Paramount Realty, who deals in premium Manhattan listings, has added some spice to the New York home search — 6 of Paramount’s Agents are gorgeous runway models — they will pick […]

photo courtesey of the Denver Post
I can’t say that I have watched all 18 seasons of MTV’s The Real World religiously; however I have been known on occasion to get sucked into a weekend marathon of the reality series.  Just the other day I saw a preview for The Real World Denver, which starts […]

I posted a while ago about tiny condos that could potentially be used as a second home in the city.  The place featured was 296 square feet.  Recently I read an article in The New York Times that details how a couple living in New York make do with 265 square feet.  The big kicker?  […]

Photo of Bellevue skyline courtesy Wikipedia
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:  Bellevue, WAMy Home’s value in 1977:  Approx. $100,000Zestimate today:  $1,435,732
I grew up in the city of Bellevue, WA, which is directly […]

The 19th Edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is now live at Ubertor Real Estate Blog, which added a little creative spice by including screenshots for each of the blogs highlighted in this week’s carnival. Hope you have time to take a look during this short holiday week.
UPDATE:
If you’re a Realtor and you need […]

Earlier this year, Martha Stewart garnered a ton of press with the rollout of her Martha Stewart-branded homes and communities with KB Homes in North Carolina and Georgia.
Now it seems many celebrities are hopping on the branded-residence bandwagon.  Inman News (subscription req.) and Forbes.com both have published stories in the past few weeks on the […]

If you read our blog, you may know that Robert Scoble, famous for blogging while at Microsoft and who recently joined Podtech, visited our offices a few weeks ago. Robert had an early demo of the Open API (this was the news Scoble mentioned may break on TechCrunch). Today, Scoble posted two videos that […]

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