Another year has come and gone, and there is no shortage of year-in-review posts this week, including a good one by Dustin Luther (blogfather turned Realtor.com employee turned blogfather), and one from Inman News. Because I wrote the 2006 wrap-up post for ZillowBlog, I somehow got roped into doing the 2007 one also. So here is my take […]

We’re thrilled and honored that Zillow has been nominated for the first annual 2007 Crunchies in two categories: Best Consumer Start-Up and Best Overall Site/Product. The Crunchies are put on by TechCrunch, VentureBeat, GigaOM and Read/Write Web and were designed to recognize and award the most compelling startups, Internet and technology innovations.

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Ever wonder what it would be like to have a famous neighbor?  Perhaps you envision play dates between your kids and the celebrity offspring, or summer BBQ’s that bring even more notorious stars into the ‘hood.  Or maybe you’re more than happy to live far away from anyone remotely well-known—after all, who wants to contend […]

Over the past few months, we’ve added two API calls to the Zillow API Network, providing developers a way to pull city and neighborhood information onto their own sites. Why did we do this? We believe strongly that consumers should be able to research information about homes and neighborhoods easily and for free in order […]

When Zillow’s Marketing Brand Director Mary Miller was finalizing details for the company’s holiday e-card that we traditionally send to business partners and friends of Zillow, she was asked by Jorrit Van der Meulen, VP of Partner Relations, who was going to sing the words that appeared on the card. Sing? SING?! Professional singers are […]

When you have data on over 70 million homes, how do you get through all the clutter and display for-sale homes in a way that makes sense to those in the market? As Zillow continues to display more for-sale listings on the site (we now have almost 500,000) it’s a question we asked ourselves, and […]

It’s true!  Think about it.  They have their own shapes, sizes, cultures, attitudes, styles and most importantly, personalities.  Any first time home buyer when looking for that perfect neighborhood has the same choices to make as the uninitiated single guy in search of the perfect companion.  Let’s take Seattle for example, should I go with…  

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For those who have recently checked out Zillow and did any type of search, you probably noticed a few of the changes we’ve made.  This is a result of the official launch of Zillow® Smart Search, the dynamic new version of our search technology that helps you search and navigate all of the real estate information you […]

…the act of upgrading our site, that is. If you’re visiting Zillow.com right now, you might be seeing a site outage message — that’s the haiku you see here that gives some hints as to what we’re working on. It shouldn’t be too long, so keep checking back. In the meantime, if there’s anything else […]

Guess what’s in vogue these days? Christmas Holiday sweaters. Yup. And the more outlandish, the better. Last week, we had a little Holiday Sweater event here at Zillow and for regular readers of this blog, you’ll know that if there is an event to dress up for, watch out. Obviously, Halloween is our favorite time […]

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