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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 [...]

Did you know that you can advertise your open house information on Zillow, for free? The information will show up on the site a week before the event, and is automatically removed when the open house is over. Here is a short video that walks you through the process:
And it works! Below [...]

We’ve had a lot of great feedback regarding the Local Market Explorer WordPress plugin we announced a couple of weeks ago. As a reminder, the WordPress plugin allows you to quickly and easily create “city pages” inside of WordPress. Examples:

Baltimore
Los Angeles
Miami
Orlando
San Diego
San Jose

I’m happy to say that, as of few minutes ago, the plugin has [...]

We’re happy to announce we have just finished the Local Market Explorer WordPress plugin that creates “city pages” inside the WordPress interface.

While the most important feature of any agent or brokerage Web site is a robust search interface to find homes for sale, one of the questions home buyers — particularly those relocating — are [...]

No doubt that it’s a buyer’s market.  Home values have taken a hit in most markets throughout the nation and mortgage rates are relatively low. Plus, the government has offered up an $8,000 first-time home buyer tax credit, further sweetening the pot for any first-time home buyer out there.
The $8,000 tax credit has been a [...]