Since launching Zillow Mortgage Marketplace a little over a month ago, we’ve received all sorts of recommendations and feedback from our users. We have been busy fixing a few things since then, but we’ve also recently added features the our lender community has asked for. We appreciate the great suggestions we’ve received and hope the new […]

The effects of foreclosure are becoming more strange by the week. Here’s the lineup of weirdness we’ve had on the Zillow Blog lately:

Foreclosed homes with pools become a breeding ground for West Nile Virus
Foreclosure bus tours packed with people looking for a bargain
Mosquito fish used to battle infestations in pools of foreclosed homes

Here’s another one […]

Dr. Stan Humphries, VP Data & Analytics, and the man behind our housing data, will be giving a speech to the Real Estate Roundtable at the Rainier Club in downtown Seattle on Monday May 19. He will be discussing Seattle home prices and US housing data in great detail over lunch.
I am a member of […]

Last summer I posted on an unsanitary (and sometimes dangerous) side effect of foreclosed homes in warm climates — abandoned swimming pools. These pools, when not drained of water, become infested with mosquitoes, which in turn

create the perfect breeding ground for the West Nile virus. Some of the highest rates of negative equity […]

As you may have noticed, we recently made some additions to Zillow Mortgage Marketplace that help borrowers learn about their individual mortgage needs and the state of the current market.
Mortgage Calculators
We added 10 mortgage calculators to help borrowers answer important questions they may have before they begin shopping for a loan. They help calculate:

How Much […]

HP shows his dexterity and flexibility doing the limbo
Ask a Zillowite why they love working here, and I think you’d find a consistent theme: The people, the product, and the potential. All of these energize us to do better, be better, take risks and have fun along the way. As the old […]

The New York Times today has an article on the city of Vallejo, CA declaring bankruptcy. In what the Times calls “a potentially ominous harbinger” for other California cities, the City Council of this northeast suburb of San Francisco voted unanimously, citing no other choice due to dwindling tax revenues and a depressed […]

That’s just one of the many things they say in Texas and I’m really happy to announce that Zillow just “went big” with Keller Williams, headquartered in Austin, Texas.  See the release here.  We are proud to announce that Keller Williams has joined the Zillow Listings Feed program and that listings from KW’s 73,000+ associates are now prominently displayed […]

While poking around the cool Quarterly Home Value Report heat map and drilling in closer to the trends in Grand Rapids, Michigan, an interesting-looking home popped up in the little snapshot for Ada, MI (screenshot, above). It is the most popular home in Ada and come to find out, it’s for sale for $1.5 million. […]

As you saw from Stan’s earlier post, home values continued to slide downward in the first quarter, falling more significantly than any quarter we’ve ever reported – down nearly 8% from a year ago.
Despite this trend and near-endless streams of news coverage on the subject, a lot of homeowners are still bullish about their home’s […]

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