Today’s Wiki Wednesday Feature: Real Estate Scams
Mortgage fraud is becoming quite a creative bugaboo, isn’t it? Tantalizing headlines tease to articles that can make your hair stand on end — and we’re not even talking National Enquirer here, folks:
"The Bonnie and Clyde of Mortgage Fraud" [CNN.com]"Convicted Con Artist Shows How System Flaws Could Allow […]

Our aerial Bird’s Eye coverage has nearly doubled in the past week with additional images throughout the country. At the moment we have bird’s eye coverage for approximately 37 million homes. We have brand new coverage in 80 counties and improved coverage in many more. We’ve expanded our coverage in the desert […]

Update: The Carnival podcast is posted. In it, Daniel Rothamel discusses Realtor recruiting, niche real estate markets, his passion for basketball and Virginia real estate. You’ll also learn how the Real Estate Zebra got its name. Click here to get to hear this discussion:

The 31st edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is now live […]

I can’t tell you how many times I have fantasized about my ideal kitchen– and it turns out it could have been mine!  I’m kicking myself for not entering Rachael Ray’s "Worst Kitchen in America" contest.  Looking at the finalists, I am pretty confident that my kitchen could have been one of them.
As first-time […]

Less than 3 months ago, we launched the ability for agents and owners to post homes for sale on Zillow. Already, over 10,000 agents (11,325 to be exact) have added nearly 25,000 postings - thank you all for being part of our community!
As a fun way to visualize all the activity we’ve received, we […]

Today’s Wiki Wednesday Feature: Guidelines
You might have noticed that we have a new wiki landing page, which we hope will give you an easier way to find what you’re looking for. In addition to the landing page, we have also created new guidelines for the Wiki.
With the wiki, we are working toward creating the […]

There’s been lots of interesting posts in the, dare I say, "blogosphere" recently. Here’s a couple we found interesting (hopefully, you will too) –

Pull Advertising vs Push Advertising over on Lenn Harley’s blog
15 Year Mortgage Too Pricey for Normal People at Rain City Guide
When to Get A Buyer’s Agent and Start Looking on Searchlight Crusade
Sara […]

Wouldn’t it be nice to know how many people have visited your home on Zillow.com - particularly if it’s posted for sale or you’ve added a Make Me Move price? Now you can! Starting today, we’re showing “page counters” on each and every home details page. We’re certainly fascinated here at Zillow about visitor […]

For those of you on the go, you can now subscribe to the Carnival of Real Estate weekly podcasts in iTunes (here’s the LINK). For more information, please take a look at the post on the Carnival of Real Estate. A huge thanks has to go to Michael Price for making this happen!

I decided to have a little fun this past weekend and dig through some of Zillow’s vast database of property characteristics (yup, I’m a data junkie) for interesting trends. One of the more interesting pieces of data I found was the trend in average size of homes built by year since 1940. During the latter […]

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