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Announcing Showcase Ads – Local Real Estate Advertising (that’s easier than EZ)

If you work in this industry you hear it constantly – like a chant – “Real Estate is local. Real Estate is local.” No two housing markets are alike; trends in home values are local and demand for housing is localized. Even ...

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Live-Q2 Real Estate Market Reports

As we noted yesterday, the Zillow Q2 Real Estate Market Reports are now live on our site. These reports discuss the latest home value data in 165 markets (down to the zip code level), as well as negative equity stats, information on the percentage of ...

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Q2 Real Estate Market Reports – conference call tomorrow

Tomorrow we’ll be releasing the Zillow Real Estate Market Reports for Q2 2008. These reports cover 165 U.S. real estate markets, and include data on home value changes over time, homeowner equity stats, and (new this quarter) what we’re ...

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Carnival of Real Estate #103

This 103rd edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is posted over at Home Staging, Rants & Ravings! Craig Schiller got “punchy” for this week’s CoRE and highlighted 5 informative posts, including one by Zillow Director of Communications ...

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Top Real Estate Websites

July was a great month for us at Zillow, as we logged more than 5.3 million unique visitors in July (5,312,644 to be exact). This was a 22% increase versus July 07. The source for this data is our internal logs via Omniture. In terms of public sources ...

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Every House’s Value is Dropping Except Mine!

It’s a topic dominating the headlines, news shows and the race for president. You’d have to be living under a rock to not know the housing market is in distress and home values are dropping…. right? Apparently not – at least when ...

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Carnival of Real Estate #102

This 102st edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is posted over at Searching Solutions. Justin Smith gave this week’s CoRE the theme of “Farming For New Real Estate Blogger Talent” — if you are on the lookout for great real estate ...

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Track Homes with Saved Search E-mail

This week, Zillow began providing a powerful tool to enhance the home shopping experience for our visitors by offering Saved Search e-mail alerts. After conducting a search for homes on Zillow and choosing the specific criteria you are interested in, you ...

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Welcome Education.com to the Zillow API Program

I’m happy to announce that Education.com has joined us as a Zillow API partner. We’ve heard time and time again that home buyers want to look at school data, which led us to recently integrate school data in the experience on Zillow. That ...