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New Widgets – Recently Solds, Newest Homes for Sale, and Most Expensive in a Given Geo

If you follow Zillow closely, you’ve probably figured out that we love anything and everything that helps get the Zillow brand in front of more people interest in real estate. Our syndication strategy has been to make it as easy as possible for ...

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Planned Site Maintenance Tonight

It pains us to do this, but tonight at 8 p.m. (PDT), Zillow.com will go offline for an hour or so for some behind-the-scenes maintenance that will help improve search performance. What to do in the meantime? How about: Catch up on celebrity real estate ...

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Zillow is a Webware 100 Winner

For the second straight year, Zillow is a winner in CNET’s 2009 Webware 100 Awards in the Commerce category. The  Webware 100 Awards recognizes the best Web 2.0 sites, services, and applications on the Web. Nearly 630,000 votes were cast during the ...

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Talking to a Few Local Zillow Advice Regulars

To get a better sense for how people are using Zillow, we invited a few of the local regular contributors on Zillow Advice to come to our offices today, to get their feedback. We discussed a number of topics, including what’s working, what’s ...

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260,000+ Downloads of Zillow iPhone App

What an exciting launch this has been for the Zillow iPhone App. Just two weeks ago, we released our free app to the iTunes App Store, and the reception has been amazing. Between all of the reviews and mentions we’ve received, we’ve climbed ...

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How To Market Yourself — For Free — On Zillow (Video Tutorial)

Are you a real estate agent new to the business?  Or maybe just starting to get acquainted with Zillow and online marketing?  Or maybe you are a broker looking for ways to train your agents how to use Zillow?  If you fit into any of these scenarios ...

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Carnival of Real Estate #141

The 141th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is hosted this week at Dan Melson’s La Mesa Real Estate and Mortgage Blog. Check it out! The carnival will make its next appearance on Monday, May 18 at the Minnesota Investment Property Blog . Please ...

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Zillow iPhone Launch is Music to My Ears

After a big day of excitement at the office last week around the launch of the  Zillow iPhone App, I prepared to enter a world where I thought the excitement would be about a different kind of “phone.” For a couple weeks, I’d been ...

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Weekend Time: Have You Downloaded Your Zillow iPhone App Yet?

In the first 48 hours, 24,945 people downloaded the app on their iPhone or ...