Want to really increase the value of your home?  Make sure you have the latest upgrades buyers are looking for in their next home.  Mark Nash recently completed his annual survey of what’s in and out with homebuyers in 2008.  One of the upgrades that really stuck out to me— in-home pet showers.  Not only are […]

Pretend you are a real estate agent. Now, imagine how happy your client would be if you found them their one-in-a-million dream home. Okay now, pretend you are a homeowner. Imagine how happy you would be if the next person to ring your doorbell was going to change your life by offering to buy your […]

Lehman Brothers put out a great research report today with their 2008 advertising forecast. Since Zillow is a media company, we take great interest in macro advertising trends, especially online advertising trends. Here are a few nuggets from the report:

$311 billion in US Advertising in 2008, up 4% versus 2007
$26 billion in US Online Advertising […]

Today’s Wiki Wednesday Feature: Selling - A Formula for Success in Any Market
Product, promotion, place, price. If you’ve taken a Marketing 101 class, you probably recognize these as the 4 Ps. Although the 4 Ps are usually applied to the marketing of products, they can also be instrumental in helping you sell your home. After […]

Since it’s Thanksgiving, we thought we’d pay a visit to this holiday’s Ground Zero — Plymouth, MA. In case you forgot the details from your 4th-grade history class, Plymouth is where the Pilgrims settled in 1620 after initially landing in Provincetown, MA, only to skedaddle a few months later after finding life and the terrain […]

A group from Zillow and I spent last week in Las Vegas at the NAR convention and we all came back home exhausted and energized. So, I wanted to pen a quick blog post saying thank you to the industry for taking a chance on Zillow and opening up your minds and your conference […]

If you’ve been to the Zillow offices lately, you may have noticed an abnormally high number of Zillowites with stubble on their upper lips. A little weird? Yes. I tad bit frightening? Probably. But it’s for a good cause!
More than 20 of us tossed our clean-shaven mugs and pride aside […]

The third quarter Zillow Home Value Reports, released today, show a continued deterioration of home values across the country. Home values are down 5.7% on a year-over-year (YoY) basis, marking the fourth consecutive quarter of declines and the largest year-over-year national decline seen in our data, which extendsback more than 10 years (see the chart […]

As host of this week’s 68th version of the Carnival of Real Estate, Tim Abbott of A Better Mortgage gives a nod to the popular wry TV series “The Office” by basing the Carnival’s theme on “The Dundie Awards.” Watch the short video (1:25) within his Carnival post to get in the mood for Tim’s winning lineup. Earning the […]

 Today’s Wiki Wednesday Feature: Most Important 2 Steps to Get the Best Mortgage
Just two steps to finding the best mortgage? Now that’s the kind of article that fits into anyone’s overtaxed and overburdened life — especially when buying a home. According to attny54 and his article, “Most Important 2 Steps to Get the Best Mortgage,” the two most important things you […]

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