By: Zillow Team Zillow.com | January 21, 2008
Brrr…. it was 11 below zero in Minnesota this past weekend, inspiring the Minnesota Investment Real Estate Blog to choose 11 top posts for the 74th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate which is now posted at Minnesota Investment Property. Minnesota’s top award goes to a new blogger in the real estate space: […]
By: Jorrit Van der Meulen VP, Partner Relations | January 18, 2008
On Wednesday we announced another partner in our Zillow Listings Feed program, Real Living, which will be sending us 14,000 listings on a daily basis. Through their participation in our program, Real Living agents will be able to automatically gain exposure for their listings in front of Zillow’s 4 million monthly users. Real living is […]
By: Diane Tuman Content Manager | January 18, 2008
There’s some fuzzy math happening in the real estate biz that I don’t quite get. Real estate agents don’t make a ton of money — not unless they’ve been in the biz for awhile, or they’re incredibly savvy in marketing themselves or they’re the Realtors to the stars or they’re just plain lucky. Six figure […]
By: Drew Meyers Business Development Specialist | January 16, 2008
Amidst the crazy week of announcements last week, Zillow Labs quietly expanded. Our latest addition is a project our data analytics team worked on internally for quite some time. It’s not some cool little web application (though we do build those as well) like you might expect. It’s a bunch of, well, DATA. What sort […]
By: Diane Tuman Content Manager | January 16, 2008
Investing in real estate is one of those dreamy aspirations filled with images of extra money flowing from the tap and
finding the ideal renters to occupy your investment. The reality, of course, is that taxes, insurance, and repairs clip your positive cash flow and finding honest and trustworthy renters is like being a 40-year-old trying […]
By: Stan Humphries VP, Data & Analytics | January 15, 2008
In the case the Zestimate, it’s a lot. Lloyd’s blog post Thursday announced that we officially came out of beta in concert with expanding our database and improving our accuracy. I wanted to offer a little more perspective on what goes into your Zestimate now.
When we first launched in 2006, we set out to do […]
By: David Gibbons Director of Community Relations | January 15, 2008
Last week’s launch of our new Zestimate algorithm involved the most significant update to Zestimate values since Zillow launched in beta in early 2006. We also updated more than 10 years of historical Zestimate values. The changes made to the Zestimate history have raised quite a few questions so I thought it could be […]
By: Zillow Team Zillow.com | January 14, 2008
Denny Oh of SanDiegOh (clever!) is the author and host of the 73rd edition of the Carnival of Real Estate. Denny’s passion for the San Diego Chargers came through loud ‘n clear as he dedicated the Carnival to the Chargers as a result of their surprise win in over the Colts in Sunday’s AFC divisional […]
By: Jorrit Van der Meulen VP, Partner Relations | January 10, 2008
Since we launched the Zillow Listings Feeds program last November, we’ve heard our broker partners talk about the complexity (and cost) of managing multiple feed types for multiple partners. We listened. And so, we’re pleased to let you know that extending your listings online to multiple locations at once is about to get […]
By: Lloyd Frink President | January 10, 2008
Today Zillow is thrilled to announce a significant upgrade to our site, which increases the number of homes with Zestimate valuations to 67 million homes in the U.S., a 68 percent increase from when we launched in beta in 2006. In addition, the total number of homes with information on Zillow rises from 70 to […]