Blog: The Home Page

Posted in Culture

Zillow COO Talks Fannie/Freddie and Housing Market

After this week’s relatively dismal housing reports, Zillow COO Spencer Rascoff appeared on Fox Business’ The Willis Report, talking about the new home data that was released this week, the impact of the expiration of the tax credit ...

Posted in Culture

New Homes Sales Drop to Lowest Levels

The expiration of the homebuyer tax credit has taken its toll on yet another real estate statistic, new home sales. Today, the Commerce Department announced that new homes sales fell to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 300,000 in May, down 32.7 ...

Posted in Culture

Florida Beachfront Property Owners Lose Out in Recent Supreme Court Case

(Photo of courtesy City of Destin) In my law class last semester, we learned about the Supreme Court’s precedence in the constitutional issues of “judicial taking” and “eminent domain,” and if the government should compensate ...

Posted in Culture

Zillow’s Five-Word Acceptance Speech at the Webby’s

Zillow’s Director of East Coast Sales, Justin Scott, accepted the 2010 Webby People’s Voice Award in Real Estate on behalf of Zillow.  As is customary at the Webby Awards ceremony, winners are limited to five words.  Watch ...

Posted in Culture

Agents Digging the New Home Details Page Design

We couldn’t be more pleased to hear success stories from real estate agents about the recent redesign of the home details page (“House Hunting on Zillow Just Got Easier“). Here are a few of my favorites: “I answered a lead on Memorial ...

Posted in Culture

Get a Discount for Inman’s Agent Reboot in SF on July 12

Calling all real estate professionals who are looking to discover new technologies, freshen up on their social media strategy, and learn how to make the latest mobile real estate gadgets work for them. On Monday, July 12, 2010, Zillow will be hosting two ...

Posted in Culture

May Brings Record Traffic to Zillow

We closed out May by setting another record traffic month on Zillow. We logged 10.9 million unique visitors during the month of May, up from April’s then-record of 10.7 million unique visitors (source: Omniture). Whether it was our fantastic new ...

Posted in Culture

House Hunting Just Got Easier

Hey real estate shoppers: Shopping for homes on Zillow is now quicker and easier. From larger maps and photos, to learning more details about a home you like and its location, we made it easy for you to do your research and home shopping all in one place.

Posted in Culture

April Showers Bring…

Spring home shoppers! We closed out April over the weekend with our most trafficked month ever on Zillow.com, beating previous records by half a million visitors.  Zillow logged 10.7 million unique visitors during the month of April, up from a ...