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Jingle Bells, Zillow-Style!

When Zillow’s Marketing Brand Director Mary Miller was finalizing details for the company’s holiday e-card that we traditionally send to business partners and friends of Zillow, she was asked by Jorrit Van der Meulen, VP of Partner Relations ...

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The Search Is On!

When you have data on over 70 million homes, how do you get through all the clutter and display for-sale homes in a way that makes sense to those in the market? As Zillow continues to display more for-sale listings on the site (we now have almost 500,000) ...

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Neighborhoods are like Girlfriends

It’s true!  Think about it.  They have their own shapes, sizes, cultures, attitudes, styles and most importantly, personalities.  Any first time home buyer when looking for that perfect neighborhood has the same choices to make as the uninitiated ...

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Zillow Smart Search is LIVE!

For those who have recently checked out Zillow and did any type of search, you probably noticed a few of the changes we’ve made.  This is a result of the official launch of Zillow® Smart Search, the dynamic new version of our search technology that ...

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Oops. You Caught Us in the “Act”…

…the act of upgrading our site, that is. If you’re visiting Zillow.com right now, you might be seeing a site outage message — that’s the haiku you see here that gives some hints as to what we’re working on. It shouldn’t ...

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Holiday Sweater Swagger

Guess what’s in vogue these days? Christmas Holiday sweaters. Yup. And the more outlandish, the better. Last week, we had a little Holiday Sweater event here at Zillow and for regular readers of this blog, you’ll know that if there is an event ...

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Diamonds of Real Estate Data

Recently we released the 2007 Q3 Zillow Home Value Reports. Stan has already pointed out that the markets are cooling in his quarterly report summary. His analysis also shows that it’s “raining” on some markets a bit more than others.

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It’s Confirmed: It Rains Here

Seattleites are known to pooh-pooh the rain, but even die-hard locals — those born and raised here (not me) — were overwhelmed by the biblical nature of the rain in the past 48 hours. It is reported to be the second wettest day in ...

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Using Make Me Move™ to Get an Edge

Pretend you are a real estate agent. Now, imagine how happy your client would be if you found them their one-in-a-million dream home. Okay now, pretend you are a homeowner. Imagine how happy you would be if the next person to ring your doorbell was going ...