Real Estate Industry category archives

A few weeks ago we announced the relaunch of our Local Pages to be richer in local data and easier to customize.
Now we’ve taken it a step further and made it easy to embed this information on your blog or website with the click of an ‘Embed’ button. Watch this video to learn more.

Our own Spencer Rascoff appeared on Fox Business this morning to discuss the next wave of foreclosures lurking on the horizon and how this will impact any housing recovery.
Foreclosure resales already make up 20 percent of home sales nationwide (and in certain places like Central California, Florida and Arizona that number is much, much higher).  Another 1.4 [...]

Today, I am thrilled and excited to announce our new partnership with Windermere Real Estate, the largest real estate brand here in our own back yard in Seattle (among many other places).
Windermere is one of the largest real estate brokerages in the country, with 8,000 real estate agents and more than 30,000 listings. Windermere’s listings now appear [...]

Spencer Rascoff, Zillow COO, appeared on CNBC last night along with Armando Falcon, former head of OFHEO (now called Federal Housing Finance Agency) and Susan Wachter, Wharton School of Business professor to hash out the future of the housing industry.
Spencer shared his thoughts on home values, looming foreclosures, and what to expect from the housing [...]

If you’re a real estate news junkie, or just a Zillow fan,  don’t miss  Zillow COO Spencer Rascoff tonight on NBC’s “Nightly News with Brian Williams” as he discusses home sales and first-time buyers.  Nightly News airs at 6:30 EDT (times vary nationwide). Spencer was also on CNBC’s Reality Check this morning, you can view the [...]

Here at Zillow, we’re doing our best to continuously roll out a solid set of useful real estate widgets that provides free information and data for your Web site.
Yes, social networking (read: Twitter, Facebook) can be entertaining, but to a lot of real estate professionals, the real meat-and-potatoes of online marketing efforts is a blog [...]

If you’re a real estate blogger registered for Blogger Connect, and you happen to be in the San Francisco, CA area, and you like beer (chances are very good you’ve nailed at least two of those three criteria) — come on down to the Mighty tomorrow evening from 6-8 PM for Beer for the [...]

On Zillow we like to bring attention to those who contribute the most to the Zillow community by awarding Zillow All-Star and Zillow Local Expert badges.
These badges appear on profile pages and can also be posted on other marketing efforts, such as a personal blog.  People with these badges are also given better placement in [...]

Once again, our friends at the California Association of Realtors have released another report full of good information about the habits of real estate buyers in their state, the 2009 Survey of California Home Buyers. While some of the buying statistics in the report may be very specific to California (for example, 38% of purchases [...]

Today we announced some significant milestones achieved in the first half of 2009 (how could it be July already??), including a whopping 67 percent year-over-year traffic increase. On average, 8.3 million people (unique visitors) came to Zillow each month so far this year.
You can see all of our record-breaking stats in today’s press release, but meanwhile here’s a [...]