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Site Down Temporarily

Sorry you caught us in this “sprucing and fixing” state. We are making updates to the Zillow site, but will be back online soon. Please check back. In the meantime, read some of our celebrity real estate news.

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More Changes for the Local Market Explorer WP Plug-in

We created the Local Market Explorer WP Plug-in as a way to help real estate professionals quickly and easily produce professional data-driven sites within the WordPress environment (which seems to be gaining popularity by the day). As I write this, there ...

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Want to Show Your Audience Listings? Use a Co-Branded Zillow Search Box

For webmasters who have buyers looking for real estate listings on your site and don’t currently have a way to serve them, we recently released the Large Search Box Widget that enables buyers to search real estate listings in a co-branded fashion.

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Spencer Rascoff on Fox Business Today

Zillow’s COO Spencer Rascoff weighed in on the state of housing on the Fox Business show “Countdown to the Closing Bell” this afternoon. Watch Spencer discuss how the tidal wave of foreclosure inventory coming in 2010, negative equity ...

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Lots of Zillow Love at the NAR convention

Thanks to all who stopped by our booth and helped make the NAR convention so successful for us; we appreciated getting to speak to so many agents who are using the site regularly to help grow their business. Below are a few words from agents and brokers ...

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Boston.com Now Using Zillow API to Power Recent Homes Sales Functionality

We’re pleased to announce that Boston.com, the website of the Boston Globe, is now part of the Zillow API program and is using it to power their recent home sales functionality on their real estate landing page. Though our recent sales data is part ...

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Introducing… Better And More Streamlined Search

As Zillow grows — we’ve now got an average 8.3 million unique users every month this year, up 60 percent from last year — we’re always trying to improve our site and our search experience. Today, one of the latest improvements ...

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Understanding the Internet Buyer, NAR 2009

Watch Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff present to the National Association of ...

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Want Up to 350% More Traffic? Add Photos

We all know that photos are a very important part of  “staging” a home online, but now there is data that supports exactly how important. When looking at traffic trends on Zillow, if you only upload one photo per listing, on average it will ...