Partner Relations category archives

Thanks to all who stopped by our booth and helped make the NAR convention so successful for us; we appreciated getting to speak to so many agents who are using the site regularly to help grow their business. Below are a few words from agents and brokers we spoke with at the show!
While at NAR, [...]

We’re pleased to announce that Boston.com, the website of the Boston Globe, is now part of the Zillow API program and is using it to power their recent home sales functionality on their real estate landing page.
Though our recent sales data is part of the Local Market Explorer WP Plug-in, Boston.com is the first member [...]

I’m happy to announce that Cimmaron Software has become Zillow’s latest Quote API integration provider.

The Zillow Quote API automates quotes submitted by lenders on Zillow Mortgage Marketplace through an application programming interface (API).  When a loan request is submitted by a borrower, lenders using the Zillow Quote API receive the full set of details the [...]

Calling all real estate professionals who are looking to discover new technologies, freshen up on social media strategy, and theorize about the market bottom (or, at least to find an excuse to visit the Big Apple):
Inman Real Estate Connect New York 2010 on January 13-15 is just around the corner, and we’re anticipating a great [...]

The Local Market Explorer WP Plugin that we released in August just got an upgrade! Though the BETA version 2 has been available for a few weeks, it’s now officially available for download in the Wordpress Plugin directory. Here’s what’s new with version 2:

Support for neighborhoods and ZIPs rather than just cities
Additional flexibility to re-order [...]

For the last couple of months, we have been creating numerous training videos (here’s the Zillow YouTube channel) to help answer some of the more frequently asked questions we get from real estate and mortgage professionals.  We are excited to announce that we now have a centralized place where all these videos live on Zillow.com.
Please [...]

We are pleased to unveil a new mortgage center plug-in that creates a mortgage center inside your WordPress blog.

This new Mortgage Center WordPress plug-in provides:

real-time rates
a monthly payment calculator
closing cost estimates (courtesy of Closing.com)
a few educational mortgage articles
links to the latest blog posts from Mortgages Unzipped, Blown Mortgage, and Mortgage Reports.

Since buyers are looking [...]

We just added a new feature to your Zillow profile — something I’ve affectionately come to call the “Rainy TwinkBook” feature. If you’ve been keeping all those plates spinning at ActiveRain, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, or another blog, you can now link to those places from your Zillow profile.
For example, here’s Spencer Rascoff’s profile — he’s [...]

The second Seattle RE BarCamp is coming up, and if you missed the first one, please don’t miss this one! It’s a friendly gathering for real estate pros to share information about the industry and the latest technology. Best of all, it’s completely FREE to attend.
Here are the details:
WHO: Real estate professionals in the Seattle [...]

We recently released several new and updated widgets (see all of our Mortgage and Real Estate Widgets) and in my humble opinion, this batch includes our most impressive one yet — new amazing upgrades to our Regional Real Estate Statistics Widget. This easy-to-embed webtool is flippin’ cool.
Here’s why: When you’re configuring the widget, you can [...]