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See You at Inman’s Agent Reboot in SF on Monday!

On Monday, July 12, 2010, Zillow will be hosting two sessions of “Zillow A to Z: How Agents Can Get the Most Out of Zillow” as part of Inman’s Agent Reboot, which is a one-day, hands-on training event for real estate agents in advance of the ...

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Zillow Partners With Yahoo! Real Estate

Once the integration of listings from Zillow is complete, all for-sale listings on Yahoo! Real Estate will be provided by ...

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Attention Northern California Agents: Free Zillow Event!

Zillow is holding a number of events in Northern California for agents to learn how to best market themselves to the nearly 11 million people that are visiting Zillow each month. We’ll start the hour by discussing the Zestimate® home value.  If ...

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First Half of 2010 Bumpy for Housing Market, but Stellar for Zillow

Even with the homebuyer tax credits helping to pump up sales, it’s been a mixed bag of results for the housing market so far this year. Fortunately, results here at Zillow have been anything but mixed. The first half of 2010 brought us a record ...

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Fastest Growing U.S. City: Dallas, TX

While the Census Bureau is still going door-to-door to complete the 2010 Census, it has released some information about population growth. One bit of news is the Dallas-Fort Worth, TX metropolitan area has added more residents over the past decade than ...

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Zillow COO Talks Fannie/Freddie and Housing Market

After this week’s relatively dismal housing reports, Zillow COO Spencer Rascoff appeared on Fox Business’ The Willis Report, talking about the new home data that was released this week, the impact of the expiration of the tax credit ...

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New Homes Sales Drop to Lowest Levels

The expiration of the homebuyer tax credit has taken its toll on yet another real estate statistic, new home sales. Today, the Commerce Department announced that new homes sales fell to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 300,000 in May, down 32.7 ...

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Florida Beachfront Property Owners Lose Out in Recent Supreme Court Case

(Photo of courtesy City of Destin) In my law class last semester, we learned about the Supreme Court’s precedence in the constitutional issues of “judicial taking” and “eminent domain,” and if the government should compensate ...

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Zillow’s Five-Word Acceptance Speech at the Webby’s

Zillow’s Director of East Coast Sales, Justin Scott, accepted the 2010 Webby People’s Voice Award in Real Estate on behalf of Zillow.  As is customary at the Webby Awards ceremony, winners are limited to five words.  Watch ...