Get Free Mortgage Rate Widgets and Co-branding
By: Nate Moch, Zillow Product Team Lead, Mortgages | July 10, 2008
In this crazy market, how are you supposed to keep up with — and help others keep up with — the latest mortgage rates? Well, now you don’t have to worry about it. We did the work for you — Zillow has created new mortgage rate widgets you can add to your own Web site or blog (for free) to track the latest rates. Plus, the widgets include free co-branding on our site (free advertising for you!), and they come in a variety of flavors.
The rate widgets are cool, interactive mini-graphs that show up-to-the-minute rates submitted to Zillow Mortgage Marketplace and are the only “live” rate widgets on the Web! Rates are computed from real quotes borrowers receive from lenders just seconds before the chart was created. The widget shows rate trends from the previous day, week, month, and 3 months for various loan programs, as well quote volumes for each rate. Click on the date buttons to see the graph dynamically update.
We also have more traditional tables with the last day’s rates and their change from the previous week. Visit our mortgage widgets page to learn more and get your own rate widgets for your website. There are a several blogs that have already integrated the rate widgets worth taking a look at — Diane Cohn’s Reno Realty Blog, Jay Thompson’s Phoenix Real Estate Home and Adam Golden’s TriValleyVine.
We hope you enjoy these new widgets and find them useful. We are very excited to offer this data to our users for free as well as site co-branding. As always, let us know if there are other widgets you would be interested in seeing.
Enjoy!
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Adam G on July 10, 2008 1:15 pm
Outstanding widget!!! I can’t tell you how often my clients ask about current interest rates. Now, I can point them directly to my site for real time mortgage stats. Also, the co-branding component is a win-win.
David Gibbons on July 10, 2008 4:10 pm
Thanks Adam!
Pasadena CA Real Estate on September 9, 2008 6:28 pm
I’m just getting into blogging and came across your blog. Good information on co-branding. Thanks!
A Brand New Mortgage Calculator Widget | Zillow® Blog on October 3, 2008 12:20 pm
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Margaret Woda on January 27, 2009 4:06 am
The link for the first of these widgets doesn’t work for me.
Nate Moch on January 27, 2009 11:44 am
Margaret,
Thank you for pointing this out. It looks like we have a broken link in our widgets. The new link to get the widgets is: http://www.zillow.com/webtools/widgets/MortgageRateWidget.htm.
That said, I would hold off on coping a widget until we fix the link and add a redirect for the existing link. We will have these fixed in our release next week (2/4/09).
Thanks,
Nate
Drew Meyers on January 27, 2009 11:50 am
I just fixed the broken widget link.
David Tapper from Burlingame, CA on February 3, 2009 10:11 am
Somehow I just stumbled upon this widget. Thanks for fixing the link Drew… going to add it right now!
Mike Shetler on February 5, 2009 6:56 am
Does this widget work in an email newsletter?
Loan Modification Guy on May 3, 2009 12:33 pm
Are these the Freddie Mac weekly indexed rates/ if not do you know where there is a widget for that?