May
31
See Home Q&A in Your Area
May 31, 2007 | 1 Comment
Back in early April we launched the Home Q&A feature, which lets anyone ask — or answer — questions on any home. We’re now at the end of our second month since launching this feature and we’ve received over 20,000 questions and answers, which is simply amazing. It’s been fun to watch; some questions have […]
May
31
Top Viewed For Sale Postings On Zillow
May 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Silver Spring, MD tops our list this week with a 3-bed, 2-bath home that even includes a slide off the back deck for the little ones. The folks in the DC area must be avid Zillow users - look at the 1-week change below - this home had an additional 527 views the week […]
May
30
Buying? Build an Escape Hatch
May 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Today’s Wiki Wednesday Feature: How to Back Down After Signing
You found your dream house, your bid was accepted, and you signed the purchase contract. Life won’t get much better than this, will it? You finally have the thing you’ve been chasing for months — maybe years. Your dream house is yours — YOURS! You may, […]
May
29
Carnival of Real Estate #44
May 29, 2007 | 3 Comments
Kevin Warmath of the North Fulton County RE Blog took the reins as host of the 44th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate, which is now live. For those of you unfamiliar with North Fulton County, Georgia, it’s an area just north of Atlanta, dominated by beautiful rolling hills and pine forests. In this […]
May
29
CoRE Podcast - Meet Niki Scevak from Homethinking
May 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Niki Scevak, the founder of Homethinking, hosted the 43rd edition of the carnival at the Homethinking Blog. I landed 10 minutes of his time to record the week’s CoRE Podcast on Friday afternoon before the long weekend (turns out he was headed to the Dominican Republic). Niki maintains his personal blog at Brontemedia.com, which I […]
May
24
Top Viewed For Sale Postings on Zillow
May 24, 2007 | 1 Comment
I give up. I just gave my two weeks’ notice to Spencer and I’m moving to Florida. For $299K I can buy a beautiful home, with an amazing kitchen and the commute is about 10 minutes from downtown Jacksonville.
Why wouldn’t I? The weather is sunny, Florida has some of the world’s best beaches and […]
May
23
Yahoo! Real Estate Adds More Z’s….Round 3
May 23, 2007 | 4 Comments
We are pleased to announce yet another phase in our partnership with Yahoo! Real Estate, which will continue to expose Zillow functionality on the largest Internet Web site in the world.
Building on our previous two integrations, the new Yahoo! Real Estate Home Valuation Tool now includes Zillow’s historical sale and tax information, beds/baths […]
May
23
Wiki? What’s a Wiki?
May 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment
When we launched the Zillow Real Estate Wiki back in December, we realized the concept of a wiki might not be easily grokked. After all, the mother lode of all wikis — Wikipedia — launched in 2001 and just now seems to be reaching mainstream status. When we launched our wiki, we actually called it […]
May
22
My House is Pending!
May 22, 2007 | 6 Comments
I’m sure thousands of you have been following the saga of my attempts to sell my house in Seattle (OK, maybe not thousands, but it certainly feels that way). Even the Wall Street Journal got involved in ribbing me, highlighting the fact that even the CEO of Zillow can’t seem to price and sell his […]
May
21
Use EZ Ads to Kick-Start your blog
May 21, 2007 | 3 Comments
More and more real estate professionals out there are actively trying to build their local blogs into the place to get real estate information about specific neighborhoods. Just take a look at the Local Real Estate Blog directory that is part of Zillow’s Real Estate Guide — it has well over 100 local real estate […]

