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Q4 Home Values Conference Call is Tomorrow (at 11am PST)

When: Tomorrow, February 12 @ 11am PST / 2pm EST. Where: Conference call: 866-250-4375 Who: Dr. Stan Humphries (VP, Data & Analytics.) Note: To download slides for the call, please visit our press room shortly beforehand. This is a quick reminder for ...

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Happy 2nd Birthday!

Today marks the 2nd year of Zillow’s birth– we’re growing up! Like any good parent, it’s always wise to benchmark your child’s development against what those brainy child psychologists say. Let’s see how Zillow holds up ...

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Work hard, Play hard.

With the recent launch of Zillow Smart Search, the Listing Feeds Program, and a much-improved Zestimate algorithm that put us officially out of Beta, Zillow employees — many who have been working non-stop nights and weekends for a few months — ...

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Zindex Super Bowl

Baseball is the usual forum in which Boston and New York wage their intense sports battles, but football — ahem, Super Bowl XLII, for crying out loud — is the rare stage for these two powerhouse cities and their sports fans to go nuts. TV ...

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Do not adjust your monitor … Zillow.com will be back ASAP.

Update (@ 15:10) Zillow is back to normal and searches are working well. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for hanging in there with us while we repaired this problem. Update (@ 14:38) You should now see the Zillow.com home page again. Search ...

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A Mashup with Zillow Neighborhood Shapefiles and the Zillow API

Last Wednesday we announced the release of neighborhood boundaries in shapefile format via a Creative Commons license. In that post, I mentioned that a mashup with the Zillow API should be do-able and sure enough, just 5 days later, Andrew Mattie (a ...

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Welcome, Real Living!

On Wednesday we announced another partner in our Zillow Listings Feed program, Real Living, which will be sending us 14,000 listings on a daily basis. Through their participation in our program, Real Living agents will be able to automatically gain ...

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7000+ Neighborhood Boundary Files in Shapefile Format

Amidst the crazy week of announcements last week, Zillow Labs quietly expanded. Our latest addition is a project our data analytics team worked on internally for quite some time. It’s not some cool little web application (though we do build those as ...

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Explaining Changes to Zestimate History

Last week’s launch of our new Zestimate algorithm involved the most significant update to Zestimate values since Zillow launched in beta in early 2006. We also updated more than 10 years of historical Zestimate values. The changes made to the ...