Archive for February, 2008

Today marks the 2nd year of Zillow’s birth— we’re growing up! Like any good parent, it’s always wise to benchmark your child’s development against what those brainy child psychologists say. Let’s see how Zillow holds up as a 2 year old:

Become increasingly more mobile — Yep. Got that covered with Zmobile
Starts asking “why” […]

Zillow’s Famous Homes lineup contains collections of homes that we consider “famous” or remarkable for one reason or another. One of the themed lineups is Famous Unique Homes in which we show off the “Guitar House,” the “Airplane House” and a rotating home. One home that fell under our radar for that list was […]

It’s hard to turn anywhere these days without hearing about the housing market slowdown, sales slumps or mortgage and credit woes. But who is really affected by all these reports? Not me. Well, I don’t think it’s me. Maybe it’s everyone around me, but certainly not me. This, at least, seems to be the sentiment […]

Social scientists have long theorized that when housing is available and affordable, the birth rate goes up. A recent New York Times article outlines some potential reasons for this premise — including the recent boom in the housing market — to prove that the data recently released by the National Center for Health Statistics supports why the total […]

With the recent launch of Zillow Smart Search, the Listing Feeds Program, and a much-improved Zestimate algorithm that put us officially out of Beta, Zillow employees — many who have been working non-stop nights and weekends for a few months — got a much-deserved break skiing and snowboarding at Crystal Mountain yesterday.
For a handful of […]

You’ve probably heard about Zillow’s listings feed program on this blog before, which enables brokerages and other listings providers to automatically upload their listings to Zillow.com. Today, we’d like to announce another partner — the Homes & Land publication is now syndicating more than 150,000 listings on a nightly basis to Zillow. This means that […]

Searchlight Crusade makes its second appearance as host of the Carnival of Real Estate, providing readers of the 76th edition with a wealth of great articles. Head over and take a look!
Update 2/8: The CoRE Podcast is now available.

The Carnival will make its next appearance on Monday, February 11 at Property Grunt. Please submit […]