Archive for March, 2007

While enduring Seattle’s 100th straight day of rain — OK, so I’m exaggerating, it was only 29 days, but it sure felt like 100 — I started dreaming about life in a sunnier state.  It didn’t take me long to find this 3 bedroom, 2 bath posting in Prescott, Arizona, by John Clark of Red [...]

Today’s Wiki Wednesday Feature: Foreclosures

As I was looking for a topic to feature this week, there was one news headline I’ve had a hard time avoiding: subprime mortgages. This post is not about subprime lending, but about what happens after subprime loans go south: foreclosure.
Foreclosure is a nasty business and it reminds me of when [...]

The title of this post is a stealthy way for me to welcome Greg Schwartz as Vice President, Advertising Sales, to Zillow.  Greg is based in our NYC sales office and will grow the national sales team across the country.  I met Greg in January, and despite having interviewed more than 25 very solid candidates [...]

Though the majority of our readers live in the United States, there are numerous other real estate markets of interest to both real estate investors and those who are simply fascinated by real estate (this includes me). International real estate has intrigued me for quite some time — especially after backpacking throughout Western Europe in [...]

Back in November, when the idea of an “open space” office area came up, some of us were pretty darned reluctant about giving up our current single-occupancy real estate. Seriously, you want us to give up our water view and doors that we can shut anytime we want? After living through all the [...]

The 34th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is now posted at Mike’s Corner - Web 2.0 for Realtors. Mike must have a love of horse racing since he uses the theme "Win, Place and Show" in announcing the top three winners out of 28 entries.
The next carnival will be held on Monday, [...]

Yesterday marked another interesting day at Zillow as we embarked on an awareness and recruiting initiative not likely seen before in Seattle.   As you may know, we have a number of job openings and we wanted to find a way to attract the top notch people who are not currently in the job market but [...]

You know deep down inside that people are checking out your listings every day.  The question is- how many?  A few weeks ago we launched a new feature to the site that allows you to see exactly how many people have visited a home.  If you haven’t check it out yet, all you have [...]

Today’s Wiki Wednesday Feature: Credit Reports Explained
If you’re a late-night TV watcher, you’ve probably run from the room screaming when the HeadOn commercial kicks in: HeadOn! HeadOn! HeadOn! But, according to Slate, the ad is pure genius. Another late-night ad that seems to be on a constant loop is the commercial for your credit report. [...]

Our first foray into Zillow mobile was a really cool application that allowed anyone to email or text an address to z@labs.zillow.com, and within a few minutes get a response that included a Zestimate, the number of bedrooms, bathrooms, the square footage and the year that home was built.
We are now taking that [...]