By: Drew Meyers Zillow Business Development Specialist | May 22, 2009
We’re extremely pleased to welcome Homethinking as the latest member of the Zillow API program. Their integration is fairly slick — they’ve used the state mortgage rates available in our GetRateSummary API to build a state rates module (screen shot below) into all the state and county lending information pages within the Mortgage Research section [...]
By: Drew Meyers Zillow Business Development Specialist | April 7, 2009
We’re pleased to welcome Ditech as the latest member of the Zillow API program. Consumers can now get Zestimates, property facts, and comparables on specific properties directly from Ditech.com.
In addition, Ditech has also integrated city home value information, which is also available in our API. It’s a natural fit to enable active home buyers [...]
By: Drew Meyers Zillow Business Development Specialist | March 30, 2009
Dwellicious, a real estate bookmarking site, recently added a finance section that is uses live mortgage rate information from the Zillow API. Though they’ve had Zestimates, comps, and neighborhood information integrated for a few months, I’d like to “officially” welcome Dwellicious to the Zillow API program with this blog post. They used the GetMonthlyPayments API to [...]
By: Drew Meyers Zillow Business Development Specialist | March 18, 2009
The vast majority of home buyers are extremely interested in current mortgage rates. Sure, there are some individuals who have enough cash to purchase a house outright, but that represents a tiny minority of the buyers out there and is definitely not the norm. Most buyers are average, middle-class families looking to buy their first [...]
By: Drew Meyers Zillow Business Development Specialist | March 16, 2009
We are pleased to welcome RealEstateABC as the latest member of the Zillow API program. While RealEstate ABC already has their own Real Estate Agent Directory and Home Buyer’s Guide, they are further enhancing their visitors’ experience by utilizing Zillow’s Zestimates, property facts, and recently sold properties when single-property searches are conducted. For city searches, [...]
By: Drew Meyers Zillow Business Development Specialist | March 11, 2009
With 1.4 million mortgage quotes in Zillow Mortgage Marketplace, we can report live mortgage rates (explore mortgage rates.) Now, we have started to syndicate those mortgage rates to members of the Zillow API Network. Within minutes of a loan being quoted on Zillow its rates can be displayed on your website.
I blogged about our new mortgage [...]
By: Drew Meyers Zillow Business Development Specialist | January 19, 2009
We’re pleased to welcome Keller Williams into the Zillow API program. You can now get Zestimates straight from KW.com via their home value module on their home page — just type in an address and hit go!
Back in May, we announced that Keller Williams is syndicating their listings to Zillow and are excited to have [...]
By: Drew Meyers Zillow Business Development Specialist | November 13, 2008
Home buyers want to see all possible listings, not just MLS listings. For an agent or broker website, why not enable buyers to search through all the listings on your own web site rather than making buyers go search elsewhere to see for sale by owner listings?
For those agents and brokers who are Diverse Solutions clients, [...]
By: Mary Miller Zillow Director Product Management, Mortgages | October 16, 2008
We are excited to announce the Zillow Quote API today, a new feature within Zillow Mortgage Marketplace that makes it easier and more efficient for participating lenders to provide custom quotes to borrowers.
The Quote API automates quotes through an application programming interface (API). When a loan request is submitted by a borrower, lenders using the Quote [...]
By: Drew Meyers Zillow Business Development Specialist | October 13, 2008
It’s well known that other Web sites can utilize Zestimates to provide content to their visitors — there are a number of sites (Yahoo! Real Estate, Redfin, ZIPRealty, Southern WInds Realty, Prudential California, etc) in the Zillow API Network that utilize that functionality. What’s less commonly known is that Zillow syndicates a wealth of neighborhood [...]