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You Speak, We Listen: Non-listing Agents Can No Longer Mark a Home as “For Sale”

Everyone told us they didn’t like the feature and didn’t use it. So it’s ...

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Lurking Buyers, Refinancers Drive 60% Traffic Increase

My post last month on “buyers lurking” received a lot of comments, and debate, over whether these lurking buyers are going to translate into increased sales sometime soon.  Since then, President Obama signed the stimulus bill, which includes ...

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Getting an FHA, Refinance, and Home Equity Loan Quote Anonymously

Online lending sites don’t advocate for the consumer very well. You supply your name, your address, other personal information — sometimes even your Social Security number — and within minutes, your phone is ringing, your e-mail Inbox is ...

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Refinance Loan Requests Pouring in to Zillow Mortgage Marketplace

Yesterday, President Obama announced his housing plan which, in part, aims to help homeowners who are current on their mortgage payments to take advantage of some of new lower mortgage rates. As soon as the plan was announced, we saw traffic surge on ...

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Zillow Turns 3!

It was three years ago, February 8, 2006, that we flipped the switch here at Zillow and broadcast to the world that we had: “Free, instant valuations and data for 60,000,0000+ homes” (and you don’t have to enter any personal info and no ...

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Zillow Mortgage Marketplace Passes 1 Million Quotes

Zillow Mortgage Marketplace, the best place to shop for mortgages online, reached a significant milestone this week.   In less than a year, we passed one million mortgage quotes submitted to our marketplace, and counted more than 150,000 loan requests!

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Edit Your ‘Specialities’ on Zillow

This is a shout-out to all of the real estate pros on Zillow: On your Zillow profile, you have the ability to add your “specialties,” which means list the primary services you offer. Doing this helps to advertise your services, but also ...

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50 million homes viewed on Zillow

Here’s a milestone worth mentioning: Our data and analytics team just told us that of the 82,377,347 homes we have on Zillow, 50 million of those pages have been viewed at least once. That’s more than half (60%) of all homes in America. In ...

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Zillowites Receive Awards

Over the past few months, some Zillowites made headlines for their stellar contributions to the real estate industry, the Zillow Web site, and Zillow Blog, so we wanted to take a moment to congratulate them: Rich Barton and Lloyd Frink – ...