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New Updates to the Zillow iPhone App
Good news for all you Zillow iPhone App fans…we just released another update to our App in direct response to user feedback! Highlights include: Faster-loading maps The ability to email information about a home of interest to a friend or real estate ...
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Zillow Interviews on CNBC and NBC
If you’re a real estate news junkie, or just a Zillow fan, don’t miss Zillow COO Spencer Rascoff tonight on NBC’s “Nightly News with Brian Williams” as he discusses home sales and first-time buyers. Nightly News airs at 6:30 EDT ...
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Announcing the Local Market Explorer WP Plugin: A New Way to Create “City Pages” Inside of WordPress
We’re happy to announce we have just finished the Local Market Explorer WordPress plugin that creates “city pages” inside the WordPress interface. While the most important feature of any agent or brokerage Web site is a robust search ...
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Join Us at Beer for Bloggers in San Francisco
If you’re a real estate blogger registered for Blogger Connect, and you happen to be in the San Francisco, CA area, and you like beer (chances are very good you’ve nailed at least two of those three criteria) — come on down to the Mighty tomorrow ...
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26 Ways for Real Estate Pros to Use Zillow, From A-Z
Yes, Zillow is mostly known for Zestimates, but in the three and a half years since we launched, we have evolved into so much more. Here are 26 highlights for real estate pros — from A to Z — including some training resources and videos. A – ...
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Zillow All-Stars and Zillow Local Experts
On Zillow we like to bring attention to those who contribute the most to the Zillow community by awarding Zillow All-Star and Zillow Local Expert badges. These badges appear on profile pages and can also be posted on other marketing efforts, such as a ...
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New Widget: Do You Qualify for $8,000 First-Time Home Buyer Tax Credit?
No doubt that it’s a buyer’s market. Home values have taken a hit in most markets throughout the nation and mortgage rates are relatively low. Plus, the government has offered up an $8,000 first-time home buyer tax credit, further sweetening ...
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NEW: Single Home Value Widget
A home valuation lookup has been the most common implementation of the Zillow API over the past few years; take a look at Yahoo! Real Estate, Ditech, RealEstateABC, and Southern Winds Realty for examples of this type of implementation. However, we realize ...
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New Zillow Widget: When Will Real Estate Market Hit the Bottom?
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, everyone knows that market conditions have been rough over the past year as the U.S. and much of the world attempts to recover from a recession. Home values have dropped across the nation and mortgage rates ...
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How to Find Comparable Homes on Zillow (Video)
One of the most-asked questions we get is how to find comps, or comparables, on Zillow. Comparables, by definition, are homes that recently sold (ideally, within 3-6 months) that are similar to yours. If you’re selling your home, comparables are a ...