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Fastest Growing U.S. City: Dallas, TX
While the Census Bureau is still going door-to-door to complete the 2010 Census, it has released some information about population growth. One bit of news is the Dallas-Fort Worth, TX metropolitan area has added more residents over the past decade than ...
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Zillow COO Talks Fannie/Freddie and Housing Market
After this week’s relatively dismal housing reports, Zillow COO Spencer Rascoff appeared on Fox Business’ The Willis Report, talking about the new home data that was released this week, the impact of the expiration of the tax credit ...
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New Homes Sales Drop to Lowest Levels
The expiration of the homebuyer tax credit has taken its toll on yet another real estate statistic, new home sales. Today, the Commerce Department announced that new homes sales fell to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 300,000 in May, down 32.7 ...
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Florida Beachfront Property Owners Lose Out in Recent Supreme Court Case
(Photo of courtesy City of Destin) In my law class last semester, we learned about the Supreme Court’s precedence in the constitutional issues of “judicial taking” and “eminent domain,” and if the government should compensate ...
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Zillow’s Five-Word Acceptance Speech at the Webby’s
Zillow’s Director of East Coast Sales, Justin Scott, accepted the 2010 Webby People’s Voice Award in Real Estate on behalf of Zillow. As is customary at the Webby Awards ceremony, winners are limited to five words. Watch ...
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Agents Digging the New Home Details Page Design
We couldn’t be more pleased to hear success stories from real estate agents about the recent redesign of the home details page (“House Hunting on Zillow Just Got Easier“). Here are a few of my favorites: “I answered a lead on Memorial ...
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Get a Discount for Inman’s Agent Reboot in SF on July 12
Calling all real estate professionals who are looking to discover new technologies, freshen up on their social media strategy, and learn how to make the latest mobile real estate gadgets work for them. On Monday, July 12, 2010, Zillow will be hosting two ...
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May Brings Record Traffic to Zillow
We closed out May by setting another record traffic month on Zillow. We logged 10.9 million unique visitors during the month of May, up from April’s then-record of 10.7 million unique visitors (source: Omniture). Whether it was our fantastic new ...