There’s no place like home for the holidays.  At Zillow, we have families all over the country and the world.  Many of us will experience snowstorms, mile-long airport security lines, and diaper changes at 33,000 feet.  And it will all be worth it because being home for the holidays just feels right.  You have […]

As 2006 comes to a close, things have thankfully quieted down around the Zillow offices and we have all been able to catch up on some much-needed sleep and family time.  Most of us feel like we’ve been running on 12 cylinders for months — fast, a little crazy, but in many ways just […]

Since launching our blog (and site) roughly 10 months ago, we’ve been committed to being an active participant in the real estate blogging community.  Blogging was a relatively new concept for most of us. Afterall, we weren’t just blogging for our friends and family, but representing a new company and to many, a new concept […]

It’s that time of year — time to try to bring it all together and make sense of it all. Here’s one tongue-in-cheek perspective making its way around the Web.  But more to the point, here’s my attempt at distilling this year’s top themes in online real estate.
1. Open It Up: Without a […]

When agents try to differentiate their listings from others or make the homes they represent really pop, home staging has gone from "nice-to-have" to a "must-have" strategy in the selling process. To help gain some insight into the industry, I thought I’d ask Barb Schwarz, who has pioneered the home staging concept. She is the […]

Ed: Today we hand the Zillow Blog over to a guest blogger. The event is the Yankee Blog Swap, and 28 bloggers have agreed to switch blogs for a day. We’re paired with Pat Kitano whose posts about Transparent Real Estate are always insightful. Over to to Pat:
I’ve been studying social networks … it’s a […]

You may have read about (or experienced!) the major windstorm that hit the Seattle area this past weekend.  I was on vacation in Whistler, B.C. and as much as I tried to leave life behind and simply enjoy hitting the slopes, I couldn’t help but worry about all the damage I kept hearing about […]

The 23rd edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is live at Seattle Real Estate Professionals. Marlow Harris separates the 16 highlighted posts into three categories: Video, podcasts & multi-media; Real Estate 2.0; and Comedy.
The Carnival of Real Estate will be taking a vacation while real estate bloggers spend the holidays with your friends & […]

Before starting this post, I want to say that our sincere thoughts and prayers are with the families of those who lost their lives in last night’s storm, one of whom was a well-known voice in the Seattle arts community.

Owning a home in Seattle has some natural risks: earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, mudslides, and […]

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