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Calling All Computer Science Students!

Madrona Venture Group is spearheading an awesome fellowship opportunity for top-tier computer science students to spend the summer in Seattle with eight hot start-ups, including Zillow. The internship is open to all undergraduate and graduate students of ...

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Zillow Logs 22,000 Agent Reviews, Adds Ability for Renters and Landlords to Review

Since Zillow launched the ability to rate and review real estate agents in December, more than 22,000 buyers, sellers and home shoppers have reviewed their agents on Zillow.  Starting this week, we’ve expanded the ability to review agents to ...

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Your Home’s Transit Score Now Available on Zillow

Furthering our commitment to open up information for consumers, Zillow has expanded its partnership with Walk Score to now include Transit Score. While Walk Score measures the “walkability” of any address, Transit Score measures how well a ...

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48 Hours Remain: Enter to Win $500

Reminder: Only 48 hours remain to enter in the Zillow Birthday Sweepstakes for a chance to win a $500 gift card to Amazon.com. Existing fans/followers are eligible and you can enter on both Facebook and Twitter. * Click here to enter on Facebook * Click ...

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Nine Homes Every Second

Imagine getting up for your morning jog. One by one, you pass by each of your neighbor’s homes, pacing yourself down the sidewalk. On this particular day, you notice the house that you’ve been eyeing now has a “For Sale” sign out ...

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Like/Follow Zillow and Enter to Win $500

At Zillow, we love a good giveaway. Especially when it’s celebrating something as exciting as our 5th birthday. Until February 25th (i), anyone who enters the Zillow Birthday Sweepstakes on Facebook and/or Twitter is eligible to win a $500 Amazon ...

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We Updated Search. You Commented. We Listened.

A few weeks ago, we updated the home shopping search experience on Zillow with the intent to give our users better shopping tools to find the home of their dreams. We added a more usable map area, added keyword search to the list of filters, and also ...

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Happy 5th Birthday, Zillow!

Five years ago today, we flipped the switch and turned on the Zillow.com beta, announcing to the world that we had “free and instant valuations and data” for 60 million homes. It was an exciting moment for us, for sure — and one that ...

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Zillowites Enjoy an Urban Luau and a Day on the Slopes

What do skiing and a luau have in common?  Fun, of course! The engines were running at full steam here at Zillow in 2010, giving us a reason to celebrate big.   On the heels of  December’s record-traffic month of 13+ million unique users, we ...