Happy 2nd Birthday!
By: Brian Ma, Program Manager | February 8, 2008
Today marks the 2nd year of Zillow’s birth– we’re growing up! Like any good parent, it’s always wise to benchmark your child’s development against what those brainy child psychologists say. Let’s see how Zillow holds up as a 2 year old:
- Become increasingly more mobile — Yep. Got that covered with Zmobile
- Starts asking “why” to everything — Check out these “Why?” discussions
- Forms simple and somewhat recognizable phrases — MMM? Zestimate? Zindex?
- Become aware of themselves and their surroundings — Check out the recent launch of Zillow Smart Search and our new and improved neighborhood pages.
- Likes to talk about themselves — I guess this qualifies.
- Likes to sing and jump — Zillow bells… Zillow bells…
- Shows defiant behavior — Uh-huh.
- Desire to explore new objects and people — Mortgages? That’s pretty new and exciting.
Looks like Zillow is on track and we couldn’t be more thrilled. These past two years have gone by very quickly — we’ve grown up so fast! We’re looking forward to celebrating many more birthdays and continuing to develop new and compelling features along the way.
(To see all the other Zillow 2 year accomplishments, check out the Zillow timeline)
Photo credit: Grafwurks.com
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Joan Kinkade on May 24, 2008 10:21 am
Zillow has got a huge potential problem going on — Fountain Hills, Arizona, is affluent little Paradise with certain unique characteristics, including recent tendency of buyers to tear down old (1974)”showplaces” to build multi-million dollar contemp version on same fabulous view lot. You zestimate is f-ing seller/speculators over because it if at least 500,000 BELOW FORMAL BANK APPRAISAL. This is ground not only for complaint to Federal Trade Commission but for MAJOR CLASS ACTION SUIT. Barton and Frick think they are pretty “cute” in making it all but impossible for users to simply e-mail CEO direct to voice complaint/concern of so significanmt a nature — guess the preefer snail mail from attorneys.
stephanie portillo on May 24, 2008 10:44 am
Zillos is great for track home communities, but has no use for people who own homes that are 15 - 20 years new. Whatever calculations they are using don’t “jive”. Unfortunate, has the potential to be a good source. My example is our home is twice the size as our neighbors, has one more bed and bath, and is “zestimated” 150K less than our neighbors. Frustrating.
stephanie portillo on May 24, 2008 10:45 am
Zillow is great for track home communities, but has no use for people who own homes that are over 20 years old. Whatever calculations they are using don’t “jive”. Unfortunate as it has the potential to be a good source. My example is our home is twice the size as our neighbors, has one more bed and bath, and is “zestimated” 150K less than our neighbors. Frustrating.
Joan Kinkade on May 25, 2008 4:52 am
I just found out Arizona Board of Appraisal filed “cease and desist” order against Zillow last summer — basically charging Zillow with doing false, inaccurate appraisals without meeting applicable standards. Calling them “zestimates” rather than appraisals doesn’t cut it because truth is many users throughout country actually regard zestimates as appraisals — don’t understand difference why some zestimates ar on target and others way off the mark. Some thing problem can be solved by making zestimate a range of values, but what I’d say has to happen is owner has to send zillow formal appraisal and insist the accurate figure be posted. Of course, appraisal istelf will cost owner $250-500 or more just to correct false impression Zillow has created. Brian Ma seems pretty proud of Zillow’s “DEFIANT BEHAVIOR.” Sure sounds like the “terrible two’s” — some responsible parent needs to take this little brat in hand . . . “
Drew Meyers on May 26, 2008 11:52 am
Joan-
Regarding the Arizona issue, please see this blog post.
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