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Site Maintenance Planned for Tonight

Every once in a while, we make a big update to our databases, which requires us to take down the site until the update process is complete. Tonight is such a night. We’re sprucing up our database of cities, counties, boroughs and neighborhoods AND all ...

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Top Trends from the CAR 2008 Survey of Home Buyers

Each year, the California Association of Realtors releases Home Buyer and Sellers Surveys, and each year the surveys are full of interesting stats. This year, the news for Realtors is about as rosy as the economic reports we have grown accustomed to ...

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Come See Us at RE BarCamp in Phoenix and Portland on Thursday

For the real estate professionals reading this, I think it’s worth noting the great momentum that the RE BarCamp movement is seeing. Every week, it seems there is a new RE BarCamp being organized in some new city somewhere across the country — ...

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Welcome Ditech to the API Program

We’re pleased to welcome Ditech as the latest member of the Zillow API program. Consumers can now get Zestimates, property facts, and comparables on specific properties directly from Ditech.com. In addition, Ditech has also integrated city home ...

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Zillow Powering 180 Newspaper Sites

Today we’re announcing the launch of a new and broad phase of our Zillow Newspaper Consortium, whereby Zillow powers the online real estate sites of 180 newspapers this year. Up first — the Tampa Tribune, as well as more than a hundred other ...

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Zillow Nominated for Webware 100 Award

We are super psyched to learn that Zillow is a finalist in this year’s Webware 100 Awards in the Commerce category! This annual competition allows Webware users to vote for their favorite Web 2.0 applications. Over 5,000 web services entered and ...

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Dwellicious adds Finance section powered by Zillow Mortgage Marketplace

Dwellicious, a real estate bookmarking site, recently added a finance section that is uses live mortgage rate information from the Zillow API. Though they’ve had Zestimates, comps, and neighborhood information integrated for a few months, I’d ...

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Video Tutorial On Using Zillow Advice

In an attempt to offer Zillow tips and tutorials by means other than plain ‘ol content, we just launched a video about Zillow Advice, our question and answer forum.  This is the first — done by yours truly —  in a series of how-to ...

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Buyers Want Access to Mortgage Information – Are You Giving it to Them?

The vast majority of home buyers are extremely interested in current mortgage rates. Sure, there are some individuals who have enough cash to purchase a house outright, but that represents a tiny minority of the buyers out there and is definitely not the ...