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Explaining Changes to Zestimate History

Last week’s launch of our new Zestimate algorithm involved the most significant update to Zestimate values since Zillow launched in beta in early 2006. We also updated more than 10 years of historical Zestimate values. The changes made to the ...

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Bye Bye Beta

Today Zillow is thrilled to announce a significant upgrade to our site, which increases the number of homes with Zestimate valuations to 67 million homes in the U.S., a 68 percent increase from when we launched in beta in 2006. In addition, the total ...

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Chat With Zillow at Real Estate Connect

A fair number of the Zillow team will be at Real Estate Connect next week in New York. We’d love to chat with as many attendees of the conference as possible — so please come talk to us! We’ll be hanging out in the exhibit hall in booth ...

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2007 – It’s a wrap

Another year has come and gone, and there is no shortage of year-in-review posts this week, including a good one by Dustin Luther (blogfather turned Realtor.com employee turned blogfather), and one from Inman News. Because I wrote the 2006 wrap-up ...

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Zillow.com… the “Crunchiest” site we know!

We’re thrilled and honored that Zillow has been nominated for the first annual 2007 Crunchies in two categories: Best Consumer Start-Up and Best Overall Site/Product. The Crunchies are put on by TechCrunch, VentureBeat, GigaOM and Read/Write Web ...

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Neighborhood Data Via the Zillow API

Over the past few months, we’ve added two API calls to the Zillow API Network, providing developers a way to pull city and neighborhood information onto their own sites. Why did we do this? We believe strongly that consumers should be able to ...

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Jingle Bells, Zillow-Style!

When Zillow’s Marketing Brand Director Mary Miller was finalizing details for the company’s holiday e-card that we traditionally send to business partners and friends of Zillow, she was asked by Jorrit Van der Meulen, VP of Partner Relations ...

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The Search Is On!

When you have data on over 70 million homes, how do you get through all the clutter and display for-sale homes in a way that makes sense to those in the market? As Zillow continues to display more for-sale listings on the site (we now have almost 500,000) ...

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Neighborhoods are like Girlfriends

It’s true!  Think about it.  They have their own shapes, sizes, cultures, attitudes, styles and most importantly, personalities.  Any first time home buyer when looking for that perfect neighborhood has the same choices to make as the uninitiated ...