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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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    The Open API is now… Open!

    After weeks of sweat, blood and perhaps even a few tears, the team here at Zillow is excited to announce that our Open API is now open for business!  Check it out here or by clicking the “API Network” link on the site footer. Zillow’s Open API ...

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    ZillowBlog 101 for New Readers

    Last week we added a link to this blog on the Zillow home page and our daily readership grew nicely — If you are one of our new readers let me be the first to say; This blog allows us to discuss Zillow in detail and some of our posts have value that ...

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    Clothed conversations with Robert Scoble

    L-R: Drew Meyers, DG Christensen, Robert Scoble, Fred Sadaghiani, Bill Nordwall, Randy Puttick & Buzz Bruggeman This morning myself and a few other developers had the privilege to sit down and geek out with Robert Scoble, who paid a visit to our ...

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    For any New Yorkers out there….

    This Thursday night Zillow is throwing a “We’re Moving In Party” to officially announce the opening of our NYC ad-sales office.  If you are in the area, in the advertising industry, and interested in learning more about the company and potentially ...

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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 ...

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    Get Zestimates from Your Desktop

    After the recent announcement of our partnership with Yahoo! Real Estate in which we provide Yahoo! with Zestimates, comparable homes and Zindex data, we Zillow Lab rats began tossing around ideas about how to further showcase information on home values ...

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    Claim Your Home – It’s Yours!

    Now I know how McDonald’s felt whenever they updated their marquee from “60 billion served” to “70 billion served.” Evidently, they stopped keeping track of how many burgers were sold a while ago, but it became one of those ...