1. Cool Data on What’s Hot

    Cool Data on What’s Hot

    The Zillow data team has access to a great deal of interesting data on residential real estate values. And sometimes a spreadsheet or a line graph More

  2. How to Make Your Home Famous

    How to Make Your Home Famous

    What does it take to make a home famous? In case you’re wondering how to make YOUR home famous, there are two main routes to explore: More

  3. Power to the People!

    Power to the People!

    I wanted to chime in with a quick word about our advertising specifications, and how we think about advertising on our site. This is pretty far More

  4. Famous Homes Mashup

    Famous Homes Mashup

    We’ve discovered a cool new site called Platial that allows people to easily create mashups on maps and share them with others. Once a map has More

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    Zindex Reflects Fed’s Cooling Comments

    The potentially cooling U.S. housing market is the subject of intense speculation right now and, last week, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke gave official voice to More

  6. Home IN the Range

    Home IN the Range

    We give our users a stack of information about a house. Getting it all into our databases is a huge challenge but making it fit onto More

  7. Real estate search trivia

    Real estate search trivia

    In case you missed it, Google Trends launched last week. Not only does it let you see how often search terms are being entered on Google, More

  8. Review From the Road Part II: Advertising and Appraisals

    Review From the Road Part II: Advertising and Appraisals

    It’s been a while since I posted an update from the field. We continue to meet with lots and lots of people across the industry. Lenders More

  9. Psychic Buys Elvis’ Former Pad for $905,100

    Psychic Buys Elvis’ Former Pad for $905,100

    Uri Geller, a psychic who has achieved fame for his spoon-bending abilities and other paranormal activities — along with two other business partners — have made More

  10. Chronicles of Data Collection II: Non-Disclosure States

    Chronicles of Data Collection II: Non-Disclosure States

    It seems many people are confused regarding what a non-disclosure state (or county) is.  Hopefully, we can set the record straight for those of you wondering.  More