FAQ category archives

“What’s the smartest thing you’ve seen a Real Estate Broker or Agent do to attract business on Zillow?”
Click on the play button below to hear Sara Bonert answers that question for Joe Zekas of YoChicago. Sara is the Zillow Market Manager for the Chicagoland area and this, from a series of four interviews, is [...]

We’ve been working long and hard to get our web application compatible with the Safari browser, so we’re pleased to announce that safari users can finally use Zillow by downloading the beta of Safari 3.0. Sorry for the delay!
A lot of users have asked us why it’s taken us so long. That’s a good question, [...]

May was a terrific traffic month for us, with 4.2 million visitors coming to the site.  But we’re always curious about who’s coming to the site and, of course, how often people are coming back.  All of this helps us to better design the site, build better products and generally make Zillow more useful in [...]

Ed: This is the final part of our five-part mini-series highlighting advice for starting a (business) blog.
Realtors tell me that real estate is a "relationship business". Most businesses are relationship businesses and often it’s not what you know but who you know that has more impact on your success. The internet was always a good [...]

In case you missed the news, just a little over a month ago we launched the ability for listing agents and homeowners to post their home for sale on Zillow- for free.  As we noted at that time, posting a home for sale on Zillow is an incredibly powerful (and easy) way to market properties.  [...]

Update 9/30/2008: Any owner or listing agent is given the option to edit the home’s location on the map by navigating to the home details page and clicking the “edit location” link in the tools section on the left side of the page.
Let’s talk about maps. By the time you see your search results on [...]

Last week we added a link to this blog on the Zillow home page and our daily readership grew nicely — If you are one of our new readers let me be the first to say;

This blog allows us to discuss Zillow in detail and some of our posts have value that outlasts the time [...]

We’ve had a number of our users ask why we are not currently supporting the Safari browser on OS X. Basically we are using some JavaScript features that Safari doesn’t currently support. As an Apple user I know the value of Safari support and I look forward to the day it is available on Zillow.com.
The [...]

If you’ve ever shopped at IKEA,
you’ll understand the importance of reading their instructions before
assembling your new furniture. Same with a new cell phone, digi-cam or ipod.
So, when you use automated
valuation modeling software, you read the manual … right?
Yes, I’m talking about Zillow’s user’s manual. To get
there, just click on the big “How To Use Zillow” [...]

Last week we dug into some new stats from a recent survey of Zillow users. We found that the overwhelming majority (86%) are homeowners, and more than half of users are currently active in the real estate market or thinking about buying or selling in the next two years.
As our site is barely five [...]