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Zillow’s COO Spencer Rascoff weighed in on the state of housing on the Fox Business show ”Countdown to the Closing Bell” this afternoon.
Watch Spencer discuss how the tidal wave of foreclosure inventory coming in 2010, negative equity, and vacancy rates continue to dampen the housing sector.

As Zillow grows — we’ve now got an average 8.3 million unique users every month this year, up 60 percent from last year – we’re always trying to improve our site and our search experience.
Today, one of the latest improvements went into effect. If you’re searching for homes on Zillow this morning, you might notice a few changes. [...]

Zillow just released new browsing functionality that helps users see more of a home photo before clicking through to the home details page. This gives users a better look at a home and improves the home search experience for users.
Here’s how it works:
1. Search: Enter an address, neighborhood, city, or ZIP code into the search [...]

Update (10/15/09): We’re back! Sorry for the inconvenience. Our engineers pulled us through.
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Original post: We’re experiencing some technical difficulties with Zillow Advice, but hope to have it fixed soon. Our engineers are working on it!
And no — this is not an intentional takedown to give Sunnyview a break.
Please check back later.

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Neighbors can make or break a nice, enjoyable living situation. There are neighbors from hell, there are neighbors of faith, there are neighbors who play horseshoes naked, there are neighbors in high, political places and if you’re lucky (or, unlucky) there are celebrity neighbors.
But the real test of what kind [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Sure, celebrities are fun to gossip about, but who would you most want to live next to?
Find out by taking our new Celebrity Neighbors Poll, which is a widget you can put on your site or blog so you can ask your visitors this very question:
Which celebrity, or celebrity couple, would you most like as [...]

Have you looked at the incredibly deep data on Zillow’s revamped Local Pages? If you haven’t yet, I’d highly encourage you to do so. Using Seattle data, here’s a sampling of what you can see:

median value per square foot
the percentage of homes sold for gain
the Zillow Home Value Index

… and tons more
Embed home value data
Now, [...]

Attention Seattlites! We’re excited to announce that Zillow and the seattlepi.com have teamed up to provide the ultimate online experience for anyone interested in Seattle-area real estate.
Starting today, visitors to seattlepi.com’s real estate section are now able to search for any address or neighborhood, and use a co-branded version of Zillow.com with all of Zillow’s search functionality [...]