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Prudential California/Nevada Realty Launches Zillow API

By: Jeff Somers, Director, Agent Services | August 24, 2006 |

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We’ve been talking quite a bit lately about our Open API (which is a free way for a third-party Web site to recreate some of Zillow’s functionality on their domain).  We announced the Open API at the Inman Conference in late July, and last week highlighted a few of the 130+ plus sites that have signed up so far.

Today, we’re thrilled to announce that Prudential California/Nevada Realty has become the first major real estate brokerage in the country to provide Zillow functionality on their site.  Using the Open API, PruRealty.com now offers consumers several of the popular trademark functions familiar to Zillow users, including Zestimate home valuations, Zindex home value indicators (area median prices), as well as other Zillow.com tools for easier access to home and housing market information online.  If you’re looking to buy or sell a home in Northern California or Northern Nevada, you really owe it to yourself to have a look at what they’ve done- it’s fantastic! You can give it a try here.

Meanwhile we’re still accepting proposals from sites interested in launching the Zillow API (did I mention it’s free…?).  If you operate a real estate brokerage site or other Web site and would like to learn more, please email us with your name, URL, and a brief description of how you’d like to integrate Zillow functionality on your site (or fill out this form).  We’ll follow up within one to two business days.

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Topics: Real Estate, Real Estate Industry, Zestimate, Zillow, Zillow API |

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6 Comments so far

  1. QXT on August 24, 2006 1:57 pm

    Speaking of API’s and integration. We just rolled out our Earth Browser Search:
    http://www.agentearth.com/

    We are hoping to provide useful alternative search and application service utilities for agent and consumers.

  2. BloodhoundBlog on August 24, 2006 3:35 pm

    A Zillified real estate brokerage: If you lay down with dogs, you wake up with fleas . . .

    The other week I had a warm call off of our web site from a potential seller. I took his information over the phone, then talked a little about objectives and time-frames. I told him we would get back to him later in the day. I comped the house and rea…

  3. John Nazareno on August 25, 2006 1:18 am

    This is Cool…I think I might think of Integrating Zillow to my site : http://www.johnhomesonline.com/contra-costa-county-real-estate.php

    Problem is, people dont understand that market is slow and still wanting to sell like it was last summer.

  4. pianogal on August 25, 2006 6:27 am

    I hope no buyers use zillow in my community. We are a new community with the homes built in the last 1- 4 years The zillow estimates are not even close. The same model home with the same features across the street from each other have different selling prices of 70-90K difference. No way! This happens consistently throughout our small community of 300+ homes. Now what if the owner of the lower ‘estimated’ home was trying to sell and the buyer checked zillow….NO SALE for him.
    Until zillow gets better than this, it’s more of a hindrance than it is a helpful tool. For our community it is COMPLETELY INNACURATE. It doesn’t affect me because my home is too new - built in 2004 and it’s not on zillow - just shows the empty lot.

  5. Todd on August 25, 2006 4:33 pm

    This is a great win for Zillow. Very nice

  6. Rory on August 29, 2006 2:01 pm

    Wow, it would be great if Prudential would sign on for that down here in Southern Califonia. The franchise of Prudential California down here in Orange County is on a huge technology push right now.

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