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    Zillow Expands and Improves Database of Homes

    This morning, thanks to an entirely new Zestimate algorithm, we’ve expanded and improved our living database of homes. We’ve added Zestimate home valuations to more than 25 million new homes and improved Zestimate accuracy across the country.

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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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    Add your Zestimate to Facebook

    RockstarApps has built the first Facebook application (App) to publish Zestimate values using the Zillow API. Keep Up w/ the Jones is a simple App — just enter your address to keep track of your Zestimate and share it with your friends (note: you ...

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    Zillow Mobile: Zestimates to Go Part 2

    Our first foray into Zillow mobile was a really cool application that allowed anyone to email or text an address to z@labs.zillow.com, and within a few minutes get a response that included a Zestimate, the number of bedrooms, bathrooms, the square footage ...

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    Two Million New Zestimates!

    I’m very excited to announce that we recently added two million new Zestimates spanning 36 counties throughout the country.  This is our most significant Zestimate coverage increase since launch and raises our national coverage to 51.5 Million ...

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    Zestimate Accuracy

    There’s been a lot of chatter in the past few days about a letter sent to the Federal Trade Commission about Zillow.  The letter says that Zillow is misleading consumers about the accuracy of its data. Here’s our take: We try really hard to be ...

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    Get Zestimates from Your Desktop

    After the recent announcement of our partnership with Yahoo! Real Estate in which we provide Yahoo! with Zestimates, comparable homes and Zindex data, we Zillow Lab rats began tossing around ideas about how to further showcase information on home values ...

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    Zillow Mobile: Zestimates to Go!

    Updated (11/26/2008)  With the launch of our Zillow Mobile website, we have discontinued our Zillow Mobile email service.  Please point your mobile web browser at http://mobile.zillow.com/ to get Zestimates and more on your mobile device.    I was ...