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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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Zillow Turns 3!

It was three years ago, February 8, 2006, that we flipped the switch here at Zillow and broadcast to the world that we had: “Free, instant valuations and data for 60,000,0000+ homes” (and you don’t have to enter any personal info and no ...

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Zillow Mortgage Marketplace Passes 1 Million Quotes

Zillow Mortgage Marketplace, the best place to shop for mortgages online, reached a significant milestone this week.   In less than a year, we passed one million mortgage quotes submitted to our marketplace, and counted more than 150,000 loan requests!

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Edit Your ‘Specialities’ on Zillow

This is a shout-out to all of the real estate pros on Zillow: On your Zillow profile, you have the ability to add your “specialties,” which means list the primary services you offer. Doing this helps to advertise your services, but also ...

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50 million homes viewed on Zillow

Here’s a milestone worth mentioning: Our data and analytics team just told us that of the 82,377,347 homes we have on Zillow, 50 million of those pages have been viewed at least once. That’s more than half (60%) of all homes in America. In ...

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Zillowites Receive Awards

Over the past few months, some Zillowites made headlines for their stellar contributions to the real estate industry, the Zillow Web site, and Zillow Blog, so we wanted to take a moment to congratulate them: Rich Barton and Lloyd Frink – ...

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Diverse Solutions Adds FSBO Listings From the Zillow API to their IDX Product

Home buyers want to see all possible listings, not just MLS listings. For an agent or broker website, why not enable buyers to search through all the listings on your own web site rather than making buyers go search elsewhere to see for sale by owner ...

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Back From The NAR Conference In Orlando

With each conference that Zillow participates in, we hear more and more stories about agents who are generating business from the site, and the annual NAR conference in Orlando was no exception. Check out this great story from Angie in Flint, MI who got a ...

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Visit Zillow In Orlando At The NAR Convention

This is the first year that Zillow is exhibiting at the National Association of Realtors convention, happening this week in Orlando.  We hope you’ll stop by and see us.  Our booth is #2063. At the booth we’ll be signing Realtors up for their ...