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Tommy Unger,

tommyunger

I'm a data analyst at Zillow.com. I help make sense of our millions of homes and billions of data points. In my spare time you can find me on some of the easier mountains of the Cascades with my wife Angela.

  1. What’s left after paying that mortgage?

    What’s left after paying that mortgage?

    With high gas prices and a housing market still trying to break out of these doldrums, people are trying to save money wherever they can. One More

  2. Illuminating Real Estate Market Data

    Illuminating Real Estate Market Data

    Today we released data on home value bands across 125 metropolitan areas.  Click HERE to read the media alert, or click HERE to dive into the More

  3. Diamonds of Real Estate Data

    Diamonds of Real Estate Data

    Recently we released the 2007 Q3 Zillow Home Value Reports. Stan has already pointed out that the markets are cooling in his quarterly report summary. His More

  4. Washington DC market cooling for larger homes

    Washington DC market cooling for larger homes

    Our recent addition of Zestimates in the District of Columbia has allowed us to add the Washington DC metro area (Washington-Baltimore DC-MD-VA-WV) to our latest set More

  5. Comparing Regional Real Estate Markets

    Comparing Regional Real Estate Markets

    The combined value of all the homes in the U.S. is estimated at about $20-25 trillion. Yes, that’s trillion with a “T.” That’s larger than the More

  6. Saint Louis Real Estate Market: A Closer Look

    Saint Louis Real Estate Market: A Closer Look

    Media attention and conversations on the national housing market often focus on the coasts. Fortunately here at Zillow our data also covers the areas in between More

  7. Streets to Envy

    Streets to Envy

    There are many famous streets throughout the world.  There’s Lombard Street in San Francisco, the most winding street in America.  And Avenida 9 de Julio in More

  8. More Gifts from Above

    More Gifts from Above

    Our aerial Bird’s Eye coverage has nearly doubled in the past week with additional images throughout the country. At the moment we have bird’s eye coverage More

  9. Smaller Families living in Larger Homes

    Smaller Families living in Larger Homes

    I decided to have a little fun this past weekend and dig through some of Zillow’s vast database of property characteristics (yup, I’m a data junkie) More

  10. Two Million New Zestimates!

    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 More