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Thank You For Your Feedback

Here’s a great video that Jim Reppond, who runs a blog called The Seattle Specialist, put together talking about the regional home values widget we just released. Thanks for the feedback, Jim. We have some exciting innovations to our home values ...

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Walk Scores Are Now on Zillow

It’s a marriage made in real estate and walking heaven. Last month, the folks at Walk Score  tipped their hand that Walk Score values will be added on Zillow.  Today, it’s a reality — Walk Score’s functionality is now up and ...

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Carnival of Real Estate #130

The 130th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is posted at vFlyer . This week the CoRE looks through the dark clouds hovering over our economy, and highlights the silver lining (opportunity) that exists in the stimulus package. Zillow’s Amy ...

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New — A Home Values Widget

It seems home values are on everyone’s mind right now — partly due to Obama’s Housing Plan and the fact that mortgage rates are low and refinance activity is skyrocketing. Consumers are interested in market data and with the new Home ...

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Refinance Loan Requests Pouring in to Zillow Mortgage Marketplace

Yesterday, President Obama announced his housing plan which, in part, aims to help homeowners who are current on their mortgage payments to take advantage of some of new lower mortgage rates. As soon as the plan was announced, we saw traffic surge on ...

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Seattle REBar Camp Wrap-Up

Thanks again to everyone who made it to Friday’s RE Bar Camp here at Zillow headquarters.  There were fantastic discussions about topics ranging from SEO, agent and broker websites, and broker business models to neighborhoods, marketing with stats ...

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Carnival of Real Estate #129

The 129th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is posted at the Sacramento Real Estate Voice–Mardi Gras Style. Let the band lead the way with beads thrown from the five winning article floats. The carnival will make its next appearance on Monday ...

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Mortgage Rates Below 5.0% on Zillow Mortgage Marketplace

Mortgage rates for a 30-year fixed mortgage have just dropped below 5% to 4.95% on Zillow Mortgage Marketplace. Also, rates for 15 year fixed mortgages are now 4.78%. Let’s hope rates continue to stay down, because low rates, coupled with the $ 8000 ...

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Mortgage Rates Drop Below 5.0% on Zillow Mortgage Marketplace

Mortgage rates for a 30-year fixed mortgage have just dropped below 5% to 4.95% on Zillow Mortgage Marketplace. Also, rates for 15 year fixed mortgages are now 4.78%. Let’s hope rates continue to stay down, because low rates, coupled with the $8000 ...