Baseball is the usual forum in which Boston and New York wage their intense sports battles, but football — ahem, Super Bowl XLII, for crying out loud — is the rare stage for these two powerhouse cities and their sports fans to go nuts. TV executives probably didn’t anticipate this gem landing in […]

This morning, CNBC’s Becky Quick interviewed Spencer Rascoff, Zillow’s CFO (here’s Spencer’s Active Rain blog), and Vince Farrell of Scotsman Capital Management. It’s an interesting discussion and I encourage you to watch the show if you have three minutes (click here.)
Spencer notes that thanks to the reduction in mortgage rates, a home buyer’s mortgage […]

Today’s Wiki Wednesday Feature: Don’t Be Fooled by Listed Prices Alone
No, I’m not promising no new taxes! But if you’re thinking about buying a home, read my lips: Remember to consider the taxes. At least that’s the message coming across loud and clear in this week’s Wiki Wednesday article, “Don’t Be Fooled By Listed Prices […]

Dave Kelly, a RE/MAX agent in Southern California, is taking advantage of Zillow to market his services to the people in the communities he specializes in — one of which is Porter Ranch in Los Angeles. Dave has uploaded several awesome photos to the photo section of the Porter Ranch neighborhood page. Similarly, Greg Swann […]

We’re b-a-a-a-c-k! Yes, it’s been 74 posts since the Carnival of Real Estate launched, but it’s our chance again and we are pleased to host the 75th edition. Even though this is the second time we hosted the Carnival, a few bloggers have done it twice as a result of stepping up when the scheduled […]

(Photo courtesy Philadelphia Daily News)
Airplane pilots are privy to lots of sights from up high and here’s another one they will come across as they land and depart from Philadelphia International Airport:
“F_U F. A. A. No Fly Zone.”
According to an article in the Philadelphia Daily News, a couple who lives in Ridley […]

Today’s Wiki Wednesday Feature: Home Equity Loans and Lines

On Tuesday, the Federal Reserve delivered an emergency rate cut in an attempt to spur the economy and to try to steer clear of a full-out recession. So, what does that mean for homeowners? Well, if you’re like most Americans who own a home, you might have […]

Update (@ 15:10) Zillow is back to normal and searches are working well. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for hanging in there with us while we repaired this problem.
Update (@ 14:38) You should now see the Zillow.com home page again. Search functionality is not yet working; we apologize for the inconvenience. In the meantime, […]

Sweet Auburn is a neighborhood in Atlanta where Martin Luther King Jr. was born approximately 79 years ago. His birthplace was 501 Auburn Ave., to be exact, but that address does not show on Zillow because it became part of a National Historic site in 1980 that includes MLK’s birth home, Historic Ebenezer Baptist Church […]

Last Wednesday we announced the release of neighborhood boundaries in shapefile format via a Creative Commons license. In that post, I mentioned that a mashup with the Zillow API should be do-able and sure enough, just 5 days later, Andrew Mattie (a developer at Diverse Solutions) has created a mashup using both the boundary files […]

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