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    Universal Mortgage Principal Reduction: Who’s Going to Pay for This?

    There is a desire to find that one size fits all, “get us out of the housing recession” program that is a win-win for everyone. Several More

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    Announcing “America’s Housing Crisis: Private-Sector Responses and Public Policy Innovation,” April 4-5, New York City

    This April, Zillow, the Progressive Policy Institute and Columbia Business School will host a housing forum aimed at exploring the ways in which the public and More

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    Home Values: Where Have They Overcorrected (and Where Do They Have Further to Fall)?

    Today, “volatile” is probably the best way to describe the market.

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    Impact of Downgrade of Fannie/Freddie Debt on the Housing Market

    This morning, S&P followed up on its Friday downgrade of US government debt by downgrading the debt of several entities that S&P views as substantially dependent More

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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 More

  6. When it Comes to Real Estate, When Will the Bottom Arrive?

    When it Comes to Real Estate, When Will the Bottom Arrive?

    There’s no question the health and state of the real estate market causes a lot of confusion these days. Consumers all have different opinions of what More

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    Improvement in Home Value Depreciation Stalls in July

    Home value depreciation stayed constant in July with home values registering a 0.2% decline between June and July and a 3.2% decline over the past one More

  8. After a Decade of Ups and Downs, What is Housing’s True ‘Normal’?

    After a Decade of Ups and Downs, What is Housing’s True ‘Normal’?

    For the past four years, homeowners across the country have been watching their home values drop. Most have seen them drop substantially – our national Zillow More

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    June Data Shows Markets Continuing to Limp Toward Stability; Hoping We Won’t Fall Back Down the Stairs After Losing Our Crutches

    Forty-eight. That’s the number of consecutive monthly declines in home values since the national market peaked in June 2006, according to Zillow’s Q2 Real Estate Market More

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    Differences in Home Value Trends by Price Level of the City

    I thought it was time we revisited the earlier analysis we did on how home value trends vary by the typical home value of a city.  More