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Zillow Announces $30M in Series C Funding
Zillow announced today that we raised a new round of venture capital. Our Series C financing is a $30 million round led by Legg Mason Capital Management, and all three previous institutional investors are also participating — Benchmark Capital ...
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Zillow Wins Web Award!
We were very pleased to learn yesterday that Zillow was named Outstanding Website in the Real Estate category for the 2007 Web Marketing Association’s WebAwards. The awards are in their 11th year — which is pretty impressive if you ask ...
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Add your Zestimate to Facebook
RockstarApps has built the first Facebook application (App) to publish Zestimate values using the Zillow API. Keep Up w/ the Jones is a simple App — just enter your address to keep track of your Zestimate and share it with your friends (note: you ...
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Rich Barton Talks about Starting Zillow
Zillow’s CEO, Rich Barton, and Joel Burslem of Inman News discuss starting Zillow, Web 2.0 and innovation in Real Estate. If you’ve been bitten by the startup bug or are curious about how Zillow got started you’ll enjoy Rich’s ...
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YoChicago interviews Zillow
“What’s the smartest thing you’ve seen a Real Estate Broker or Agent do to attract business on Zillow?” Click on the play button below to hear Sara Bonert answers that question for Joe Zekas of YoChicago. Sara is the Zillow Market ...
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Bird’s Eye View Expanded
Last week we added Bird’s Eye View for 14 additional counties, bringing our total Bird’s Eye coverage to almost 40 million homes, more than half of all homes on Zillow. The biggest addition was Chicago, which is famous for its amazing ...
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Zillow WordPress Plug-in
A few weeks back, you might remember that I called for a wordpress plugin and that Realivent came through with an awesome lead generating solution for real estate blogs. I added it to Tisza’s blog (Route66 Living) and soon other bloggers showed ...
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Really, we are a media co., Really
The title of this post is a stealthy way for me to welcome Greg Schwartz as Vice President, Advertising Sales, to Zillow. Greg is based in our NYC sales office and will grow the national sales team across the country. I met Greg in January, and ...
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Over 10,000 Agents on Zillow!
Less than 3 months ago, we launched the ability for agents and owners to post homes for sale on Zillow. Already, over 10,000 agents (11,325 to be exact) have added nearly 25,000 postings – thank you all for being part of our community! As a fun way ...
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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 ...