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One More Reason to Code with the Zillow API

There are many different reasons to code with the Zillow API. However, Auston Bunsen, the programmer behind iZillow (here’s the FoREM writeup) stumbled on a reason I haven’t heard yet — getting mentioned in the New York Times! Auston ...

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Carnival of Real Estate #105

The 105th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is live over at Toby’s Take on Delaware Ohio! This is probably the most transparent and honest edition of the CoRE ever posted since Toby stack-ranks all of the posts submitted. Our own Leslie Pandey ...

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Opening up the Zillow API to Allow Sites in the API Network to Access Homes for Sale

I spend a fair amount of time speaking with Web developers around the country, and one thing I have heard numerous times is that they’d like to be able to access data on homes for sale via the Zillow API. I have good news — now you can! We ...

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Carnival of Real Estate #104

The 104th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is posted at Altos Research. In honor of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Mike Simonsen put together a fantastic carnival with an Olympic theme by highlighting 7 posts — head on over and take a look!

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Touch-Tap-Click-Push…Search Properties From Your Mobile Browser

If you visit Zillow today using your iPhone Safari, Blackberry, Opera Mobile or other mobile browser, you will notice something different. The mobile homepage. That’s because we just launched a mobile browser version of our popular home search ...

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Announcing Showcase Ads – Local Real Estate Advertising (that’s easier than EZ)

If you work in this industry you hear it constantly – like a chant – “Real Estate is local. Real Estate is local.” No two housing markets are alike; trends in home values are local and demand for housing is localized. Even ...

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Live-Q2 Real Estate Market Reports

As we noted yesterday, the Zillow Q2 Real Estate Market Reports are now live on our site. These reports discuss the latest home value data in 165 markets (down to the zip code level), as well as negative equity stats, information on the percentage of ...

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Q2 Real Estate Market Reports – conference call tomorrow

Tomorrow we’ll be releasing the Zillow Real Estate Market Reports for Q2 2008. These reports cover 165 U.S. real estate markets, and include data on home value changes over time, homeowner equity stats, and (new this quarter) what we’re ...

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Carnival of Real Estate #103

This 103rd edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is posted over at Home Staging, Rants & Ravings! Craig Schiller got “punchy” for this week’s CoRE and highlighted 5 informative posts, including one by Zillow Director of Communications ...