Archive for April, 2008

Tag, your house is it. At least that’s what the neighborhood rascals damaging your personal property would like you to think. Whether the perpetrators are hormonal pre-teens practicing their cursive or gangsters gone wild, the graffiti clean up process is the same.
Beyond the aesthetic, graffiti has a surprisingly large financial implication on local communities. According […]

Some of you may have noticed some changes and additions we made to the Zillow Mortgage Marketplace landing page.  In addition to links directly to our Credit Score Estimator and Mortgage Help Center topics, we’re now making it easy for anyone visiting Mortgage Marketplace to look at loan requests and mortgage quotes happening in real […]

This is your final reminder that Reachd will offer Adwords for Real Estate training at Zillow’s Seattle offices this Thursday. The Reachd course provides Google Adwords training for real estate professionals. And Zillow’s David Gibbons will follow up with a quick presentation of Zillow’s EZ Ads. There are only 6 5 spots left. If you’re […]

Believe it or not, that headline was similar to one posted on a billboard back in 1971 in Seattle, which was commissioned by two Seattle real estate agents who were fed up with the pessimism surrounding the Boeing Bust. Nowadays — thankfully — Seattle is not tethered to one company to provide an economic life […]

Doug Heddings hosted the 86th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate, which is now live and posted at

True Gotham. Doug’s favorite post was by Joe Manausa of the Tallahassee Real Estate Blog titled, “Selling Your Home — The Single Most Important Fact” and we agree — it was a good one! We also want […]

Zillow Mortgage Marketplace!

And of course it helps to have excellent credit and a 32% LTV. Not everyone gets this special attention but I’m amazed at how many loan originators and mortgage brokers do quote loans over the weekend. The Mortgage Marketplace is truly open 24/7. This refinance loan request already has quotes ranging from 5.4% […]

Shine those shoes and pick out a new dress…. 

As if we didn’t have enough exciting things going on around Zillow these days, we recently learned that we have been nominated for a Webby Award!  If you aren’t familiar with these, the New York Times hailed them as the “Oscars of the Internet.” This is the 12th year […]

Last year, I wrote a post about Apartment Therapy’s coolest, smallest apartments for 2007 — and guess what? The contest is back! Small Cool 2008 again looks at the top well-designed small spaces, and I continue to be amazed. As the nation as a whole is moving into larger spaces, you have to give credit […]

We’ve had a busy week here at Zillow since Zillow Mortgage Marketplace launched last Wednesday evening. At this writing, 7,866 loan requests have been submitted by borrowers, and lenders have responded with more than 14,397 loan quotes! Needless to say, this surpasses any expectations we had internally for the first week out of the gate.
While […]

Today’s Wiki Wednesday Feature: A Rare Economic Time — Low Rates and Low Prices
Regardless of how bad the real estate market is for people who are selling — or, trying to sell their homes — the flip side is that buyers are in the catbird seat, shopping and choosing homes with the confidence of a […]