Archive for November, 2006

Tuesday, a federal district court in Chicago dismissed a suit charging that craigslist’s housing listings violated the Fair Housing Act.  This is a very significant decision for online real estate services and users.
In February, the Chicago Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law sued craigslist for allegedly violating the Fair Housing Act, citing a […]

With over 67 million homes in our database, you can say we love data. We thrive on it. As you can imagine, many Zillow employees are data "junkies" and love to analyze as much data as possible. I’m one of those junkies. Yesterday, I dug through some of our site reports and found some interesting […]

The battles over property rights rage on.  So far, the high-water mark for owners’ rights appears to be the limitation of eminent domain powers to public use of property, such as roads or rail lines.  Something new is rising, however, in Arizona.
As I wrote previously, this fall voters in a number of states got […]

I’m proud to tell you that Zillow has received one of the most prestigious brand designations that a company can receive: we were named one of AdvertisingAge’s 2006 "Marketing 50", which honors products that "broke through the clutter and delivered real impact". Other award winners include Dunkin’ Donuts, Xbox 360, Gatorade, Fanta, Visa, Comcast, […]

We have all heard the phrase “your whole life flashes in front of you,” when faced with a frightening life or death experience and as of last Wednesday, myself and a plane full of others fall into that category.
On my way home from Ad Tech New York, an industry trade show for the advertising […]

I read a great post over at Active Rain today written by Carol Williams, a realtor in Wenatchee, WA—titled "Blogging for Bucks." If you are a real estate agent and thinking about blogging, it is certainly a "must-read." She talks a bit about the benefits she has received as a result of blogging—including improved search […]

As you may have read in our blog last week we’ve just completed our third quarter home value reports.  In it, we took an in-depth look at 5 metropolitan areas as well as an overview of the top 36 metro areas in the U.S.  One unique element of the national and metro reports is the […]

The 18th Edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is now live at True Gotham. The top 11 posts from last week are showcased—including an interesting post on Searchlight Crusade titled "Can a Lender Legally Stop Loan Funding After Signing?"
The Carnival of Real Estate’s next host will be Ubertor. Please submit your best post by […]

Tivo’s and other DVR’s (digital video recorder) are becoming increasingly
popular and this is a trend that the advertising industry is starting to take
note of. Do you have a Tivo, and if so, do you still watch commercials?
Nielsen Media
Research are the best known analysts of the television industry. They
measure the ratings of individual television shows […]

Today, Zillow released our third quarter real estate market reports for five metro regions (Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix and Miami) and an additional report covering the top 36 metro areas studied this quarter. Click here for all six reports.
San Francisco and Phoenix area real estate experienced a drop in values in the third […]