Archive for May, 2008

There’s still time to sign up for Zillow’s free Webinar for Real Estate Professionals, but you’ll need to act quickly!  Register here for the Webinar, and tune in at 10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET to hear Zillow’s Jorrit Van der Meulen and Dr. Stan Humphries discuss what’s happening in today’s real estate market and what [...]

A few weeks ago, I blogged about the bathroom remodel I’m doing to my house, using Dueling Digs as my inspiration for what I like in a bathroom. Well, actually it’s a master bedroom/bathroom remodel. I’m a rookie at remodeling, so this whole process has been very eye-opening. Predictably, I’m over budget, which I sort [...]

It’s been just under 2 months since we officially launched Zillow Mortgage Marketplace, and in that time we’ve seen some great results. More than 28,000 loan requests have been submitted by borrowers, and over 2,000 confirmed lenders have responded with more than 115,000 loan quotes! We’ve also begun to hear some very positive anecdotal feedback [...]

Today’s Wiki Wednesday Feature: Selling Your Home When You Have Young Children
Considering how volatile the market is right now, sellers are doing everything they possibly can to make their homes more appealing to potential buyers. Buyers, on the other hand, can afford to be choosy.
Thinking about putting your home on the market? Consider the target [...]

It’s hard to believe that in our depressed economy and flattened real estate market that in some areas of the U.S., home values actually appreciated year-over-year. It’s true — there was a real estate Santa Claus for some of us this past quarter.
In our Q1 Home Value Report, we did an analysis of 160 metropolitan [...]

What The Donald wants, The Donald gets. Well, almost. Although it’s not the $125 million asking price that billionaire real estate titan Donald Trump wanted, he still executed a nice windfall on his Palm Beach property at 515 N. County Road, selling it for $100 million after purchasing it for $41.35 million in 2004 in [...]

Hello, Minneapolis! The Minneapolis Real Estate Blog is hosting the Carnival of Real Estate for the second time (we love these double dippers — it shows they’ve been around a while and believe in the benefits of CoRE). In the 91st edition, Aaron Dickinson of Edina Realty chose nine posts out of 20+ as ones [...]

That final bit of real estate some of us purchase doesn’t have much of a view, is in a monotonous, cookie-cutter neighborhood, has poor curb appeal, can be a bit cold, and is brutally quiet. However undesirable that sounds, it’s called the hottest real

estate deal in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The Fairview Cemetery is making [...]

Today’s Wiki Wednesday Feature: Determine Whether Your Loan Officer is Reputable
Once you actually find a home to buy, the last thing you have time and energy to vet is whether your loan officer is reputable. Just show me the money, honey and let’s get on with it.
It turns out, however, that this is the [...]

If you’re an observant person or a fanatic of maps and aerial imagery, you probably already noticed that we updated our map images late last week by integrating the Microsoft Virtual Earth maps/aerial imagery with our underlying maps platform. As a result, you’ll now see aerial images that are more clear, crisp, and actually a bit closer [...]