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Homes and Holidays
There’s no place like home for the holidays. At Zillow, we have families all over the country and the world. Many of us will experience snowstorms, mile-long airport security lines, and diaper changes at 33,000 feet. And it will all be worth it ...
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Whew! What a year…
As 2006 comes to a close, things have thankfully quieted down around the Zillow offices and we have all been able to catch up on some much-needed sleep and family time. Most of us feel like we’ve been running on 12 cylinders for months — fast ...
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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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Yankee Blog Swap: The Potential of Real Estate Wikis by Pat Kitano
Ed: Today we hand the Zillow Blog over to a guest blogger. The event is the Yankee Blog Swap, and 28 bloggers have agreed to switch blogs for a day. We’re paired with Pat Kitano whose posts about Transparent Real Estate are always insightful. Over ...
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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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Yankee Blog Swap
It’s amazing how the real estate blogosphere continues to evolve and innovate. First, the Carnival of Real Estate , then the Sellsius 101 Blog Post Challenge and now a swap meet, which is the brainchild of Mary McKnight at RSS Pieces. Next week ...
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Want to buy my home? It will cost you!
After purchasing our house last year and spending a great deal of time and energy into personalizing it and making it into our home, I’ve often thought about what price would make me want to move. I have come to know and love our home, and the ...
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Offices or Cubicles? The Eternal Debate Continues…
Cubes or offices? It’s an issue which plagues all startups. In fact, it vexes all companies, large and small. It is the subject of frequent humor in pop culture, from Dilbert to Office Space. But it’s a serious question, worthy of debate.
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Further Zillow API Applications
I was surfing around the Zillow API Forum today and came across two really cool applications that I wanted to highlight. The first application was built by Mike Rice (Eferi Web Development) and allows a developer to add Zestimates, charts, beds/baths and ...