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A Mashup with Zillow Neighborhood Shapefiles and the Zillow API

Last Wednesday we announced the release of neighborhood boundaries in shapefile format via a Creative Commons license. In that post, I mentioned that a mashup with the Zillow API should be do-able and sure enough, just 5 days later, Andrew Mattie (a ...

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Welcome, Real Living!

On Wednesday we announced another partner in our Zillow Listings Feed program, Real Living, which will be sending us 14,000 listings on a daily basis. Through their participation in our program, Real Living agents will be able to automatically gain ...

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7000+ Neighborhood Boundary Files in Shapefile Format

Amidst the crazy week of announcements last week, Zillow Labs quietly expanded. Our latest addition is a project our data analytics team worked on internally for quite some time. It’s not some cool little web application (though we do build those as ...

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Explaining Changes to Zestimate History

Last week’s launch of our new Zestimate algorithm involved the most significant update to Zestimate values since Zillow launched in beta in early 2006. We also updated more than 10 years of historical Zestimate values. The changes made to the ...

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Bye Bye Beta

Today Zillow is thrilled to announce a significant upgrade to our site, which increases the number of homes with Zestimate valuations to 67 million homes in the U.S., a 68 percent increase from when we launched in beta in 2006. In addition, the total ...

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Chat With Zillow at Real Estate Connect

A fair number of the Zillow team will be at Real Estate Connect next week in New York. We’d love to chat with as many attendees of the conference as possible — so please come talk to us! We’ll be hanging out in the exhibit hall in booth ...

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2007 – It’s a wrap

Another year has come and gone, and there is no shortage of year-in-review posts this week, including a good one by Dustin Luther (blogfather turned Realtor.com employee turned blogfather), and one from Inman News. Because I wrote the 2006 wrap-up ...

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Zillow.com… the “Crunchiest” site we know!

We’re thrilled and honored that Zillow has been nominated for the first annual 2007 Crunchies in two categories: Best Consumer Start-Up and Best Overall Site/Product. The Crunchies are put on by TechCrunch, VentureBeat, GigaOM and Read/Write Web ...

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Neighborhood Data Via the Zillow API

Over the past few months, we’ve added two API calls to the Zillow API Network, providing developers a way to pull city and neighborhood information onto their own sites. Why did we do this? We believe strongly that consumers should be able to ...