Archive for December, 2006

With those four words — “We’re Opening It Up!” — I am pleased, proud, eager and bursting with excitement to announce that we just launched a major upgrade to our site. Ready? We now offer the ability for real estate agents and homeowners to plant virtual “For Sale” signs on Zillow.com. Since we launched […]

Back in September, I wrote a blog post about a neighbor’s house that had been inhabited by a squatter and then went up for sale. As I predicted at the time, it was snatched up quickly and pretty much torn down to the studs. What I hadn’t predicted was how quickly it would be rebuilt.
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Update 3/31/2008: If you post a Make Me Move (or For Sale price) on your home, you’ll be given the option to edit the home’s location on the map. In the future, we hope to enable anyone who has claimed a home to move their home, but the site doesn’t have that capability yet.
Let’s talk […]

Cubes or offices?
It’s an issue which plagues all startups. In fact, it vexes all companies, large and small. It is the subject of frequent humor in pop culture, from Dilbert to Office Space. But it’s a serious question, worthy of debate.
Zillow has grown from 7 employees when I joined 21 months ago to about […]

The carnival celebrates its 21st birthday with this week’s edition of the Carnival of Real Estate at Property Monger. The top 10 posts from this week are highlighted, with the "hangover" coming tomorrow calling out the remaining submissions. Take a look!

The Carnival of Real Estate’s next host will be Active Rain. Please submit your […]

Since it’s only 1 day before the submission deadline for the CoRE #21 and the Carnival of Real Estate URL has not been working properly the last day or so (and currently), I wanted to quickly give CoRE participants two links to make sure everyone who wants to submit a post this week can do […]

I was surfing around the Zillow API Forum today and came across two really cool applications that I wanted to highlight.
The first application was built by Mike Rice (Eferi Web Development) and allows a developer to add Zestimates, charts, beds/baths and historical sales data to their Web site in a very easy way. If […]

Interested in working for Zillow?  Be sure to watch this quick, rough video clip Q&A with our CTO, David Beitel to get more info on what we are looking for in developer candidates. Don’t forget to check out our current openings as well. Note the video might take a minute to load. We hope to […]