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Happy Birthday Zillow!

We have our birthday hats on today here at Zillow HQ in downtown Seattle: our little company is now one year old. It seems like just yesterday that we launched the site, but we’ve come a long way in this past year. Check our our recently added Zillow ...

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Two Million New Zestimates!

I’m very excited to announce that we recently added two million new Zestimates spanning 36 counties throughout the country.  This is our most significant Zestimate coverage increase since launch and raises our national coverage to 51.5 Million ...

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What Blogging Has Taught Us

Since launching our blog (and site) roughly 10 months ago, we’ve been committed to being an active participant in the real estate blogging community.  Blogging was a relatively new concept for most of us. Afterall, we weren’t just blogging ...

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Adding Muscle to Mapping & Searching Homes

If you’re like me, you’ve checked the price tags on the homes in the most expensive area of your city and wondered what it would be like to buy a home in that neighborhood. If that day comes, how will you know what is for sale in that area? Or, how ...

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Zillow on the Scoble Show

If you read our blog, you may know that Robert Scoble, famous for blogging while at Microsoft and who recently joined Podtech, visited our offices a few weeks ago. Robert had an early demo of the Open API (this was the news Scoble mentioned may break on ...

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Zillow named to Ad Age’s “Marketing 50”

I’m proud to tell you that Zillow has received one of the most prestigious brand designations that a company can receive: we were named one of AdvertisingAge’s 2006 "Marketing 50", which honors products that "broke through the ...

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Zestimate Accuracy

There’s been a lot of chatter in the past few days about a letter sent to the Federal Trade Commission about Zillow.  The letter says that Zillow is misleading consumers about the accuracy of its data. Here’s our take: We try really hard to be ...

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Zillow at CAR

On Tuesday I had the honor of speaking at the California REALTOR® EXPO 2006, the state’s largest real estate trade show (10,000+ attend).  I presented on a panel called Futurecast: Visionaries Discuss Technology in a Shifting Market.  CAR ...

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ZipRealty and Redfin Integrate with Zillow’s API

We are happy to report today that both ZipRealty, a national full-service real estate brokerage, and Redfin, an online real estate brokerage with listings in Seattle and San Francisco, recently integrated Zillow’s functionality into their Web sites ...