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Welcome Agent Image to the Zillow API Program

We’re very pleased to welcome our latest addition, Agent Image, to the Zillow API program. Agent Image builds custom websites for brokers and agents around the country, and is now using Zillow’s mortgage rate widget and API’s to power ...

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Zillow Is Used By 55% Of Buyers – 2009 Survey of California Home Buyers

Once again, our friends at the California Association of Realtors have released another report full of good information about the habits of real estate buyers in their state, the 2009 Survey of California Home Buyers. While some of the buying statistics ...

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Recently Sold Homes on Zillow: How and When Do They Appear?

We’re asked questions about how Zillow works every day, but one of the most frequently-asked has to do with recently sold homes, and how long it takes for the sale of a home to appear on Zillow. As users of the site know, recent sales appear as ...

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Zillow iPhone App Passes ½ Million Downloads

Over the weekend we hit another exciting milestone with our Zillow iPhone app: over 1/2 million downloads — 513,213 as of this morning. And it’s not just good news for Zillow… according to some of the testimonials we’ve been hearing, such as a ...

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Z57 Integrates Mortgage Widgets on Their Clients’ Web sites

We’re happy to announce that Z57 Internet Solutions, a company that builds Web sites for brokers and agents around the country, is now using Zillow’s Mortgage Rate Widget and Mortgage Calculator Widget to power the mortgage centers of their ...

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New Features Added to Zillow iPhone App

Exciting news from Zillow mobile land… we just launched V2 of the Zillow iPhone App! This new version was motivated by two things: user feedback on our V1 Zillow iPhone App, and the opportunity to launch with the new iPhone OS 3.0. The most-requested ...

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Are You a Local Expert? Are You Knowledgeable About Neighborhood Boundaries in your Area?

If the answer to both questions is “yes”, and you are willing to help by giving us feedback, we’d love to hear from you. We’re doing some improvements on the neighborhood boundaries that we released in January of 2008. For example ...

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Beer With Bloggers, Philly Style

The unofficial start to tomorrow’s Philly RE BarCamp began tonight with the Pre-Bar Camp Beer for Bloggers event that was held at Finnegan’s Wake down on 3rd and Spring Garden Streets in Philly. It was a good way to get together with real ...

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Welcome Homethinking to the API Program

We’re extremely pleased to welcome Homethinking as the latest member of the Zillow API program. Their integration is fairly slick — they’ve used the state mortgage rates available in our GetRateSummary API to build a state rates module ...