Zillow® Timeline
Below is a timeline of key events at Zillow since launching on Feb. 8, 2006.
2009
June 5
Zillow Mortgage Marketplace launches Mortgage Rate Alert, an e-mail program that alerts borrowers when mortgage rates hit a certain level.
May 19
For second straight year, Zillow wins Webware 100 Award in Commerce category.
April 28
Zillow iPhone App, which uses GPS technology, is released. Within 24 hours, the app is downloaded 15,666 times.
April 28
Sprint includes Zillow in its national "Now Network" ad campaign.
April 1
As part of the Newspaper Consortium deal, Zillow begins to power online real estate sites for 180 newspapers in the U.S., including Tampa Tribune.
February 24
Walk Score values are added to home details pages on Zillow.
February 8
February 5
More than 1 million quotes have been submitted on Zillow Mortgage Marketplace in less than a year. (ZMM launched on April 2, 2008).
February 4
Zillow experiences a record-breaking January with 7.5 million unique visitors – an increase of 61%, year-over-year.
January 14
More than 50 million homes have been viewed on Zillow, which is more than half of the homes that exist in the U.S.
January 8
Zillow gives White House a Zestimate value in time for President Obama's move to new digs.
2008
December 16
Zillow launches Zillow Advice, a forum where local Q&A, discussions, and real estate advice is shared.
December 8
More than 100,000 loan requests submitted on Zillow Mortgage Marketplace.
November 24
Listings milestone: Zillow tops 3 million for sale listings. This does not include 36,000 FSBOs and 133,000 Make Me Move homes.
November 10
Community contributions top 40,000 each day. Zillow users are actively asking and answering questions, adding photos and joining in discussions on the real estate market!
October 30
Dueling Digs adds two new categories: Swimming pools and home theaters.
October 16
Zillow rolls out Zillow Quote API, which allows participating lenders of Zillow Mortgage Marketplace to provide custom quotes to borrowers through an automated quote API.
October 7
Famous Homes of U.S. Presidents page launches.
October 2
Zillow Professional Directory launches. This free service allows consumers to search for real estate professionals in their neighborhood or city.
September 23
Zillow announces the Mortgage Rate Monitor, a weekly compilation of mortgage rates as they appear in Zillow Mortgage Marketplace.
September 19
New Zillow ad product unveiled: Home Page Featured Listings. Century21 signs on as the first national partner.
September 16
Zillow wins two Web Marketing Association WebAwards: Outstanding Website and Financial Services Standard of Excellence.
September 10
Zillow launches Mortgages Unzipped, a blog written by mortgage professionals and members of the Zillow Mortgage Marketplace team.
September 8
Zillow unveils Zillow Advertising Network, which is an extension of the Zillow Newspaper Consortium launched in June.
August 15
Zillow releases technology to conduct home searches via mobile browser.
August 14
Zillow launches second-generation local ad product named Showcase Ads, which replaces EZ Ads.
July 31
Zillow adds Saved Search e-mail alert to help save time for specific home searches.
July 30
Zillow unveils Famous Celebrity Neighborhoods.
July 24
Zillow adds Google Street View to home details pages on Zillow.
July 21
The 100th post for the Carnival of Real Estate is published. (CoRE was started by Zillow in July of 2006).
July 18
Zillow Broker Advisory Board announced.
July 12
Zillow begins issuing All-Star Badges to top community contributors.
July 11
Schools data is added to home details pages on Zillow.
July 10
Zillow rolls out free mortgage rates widgets and co-branding.
July 9
More than 50,000 loan requests submitted on Zillow Mortgage Marketplace.
June 26
Famous Historic Homes launches.
June 25
Zillow Home Report e-mail is updated and improved.
June 23
Featured listings begin appearing on Zillow.
June 19
Zillow and the Newspaper Consortium kick off their partnership as two of 282 TNC newspapers begin implementing the classified ad, content, and data agreement.
June 18
Borrowers submit 43,000 loan requests on Zillow Mortgage Marketplace, and 2,800 lenders respond with 200,000 loan quotes.
June 17
2.5 million homes are listed for sale on Zillow.
June 5
Zillow launches comprehensive, interactive mortgage rate charts on Zillow Mortgage Marketplace.
May 6
Zillow wins top Webby Award in real estate category.
April 21
Zillow wins Webware Award in Commerce & Events category.
April 2
Zillow Mortgage Marketplace launches, where borrowers and lenders come together in an open, anonymous, and free marketplace.
March 19
Zillow launches Dueling Digs, a "hot or not" tool useful for home improvement and remodeling, or just for plain fun.
February 21
Zillow launches Virtual Sold Sign program, in which agents and brokers continue marketing themselves on their sold properties for free.
February 15
100K real estate agents are registered on Zillow, with an additional 135K "secret agents" also participating.
February 14
1 million For Sale and Make Me Move® listings are on Zillow
February 8
Happy 2nd Birthday, to us
January 16
Zillow announces it has released boundary lines for more than 7,000 neighborhoods around the U.S., covering roughly 150 cities for anyone to download, for free
January 10
Zillow adds 10 million homes to its database, improving Zestimate accuracy by 12% nationwide with new, hyper-local algorithms, and removing the beta tag from its logo.
2007
December 27
100,000 Make Me Move homes are posted on Zillow.
December 17
Zillow launches a new dynamic search and map-based technology called Zillow® Smart Search.
November 21
500,000 homes have been posted for sale on Zillow.
November 14
The Zillow Listings Feed program launches, which allows brokerages and Web vendors to feed their for-sale listings to Zillow.
November 13
Zillow forms an online real estate partnership with 11 newspaper publishing companies, representing 282 newspapers nationwide.
October 30
Zillow launches Zillow Home Direct Ads, a suite of tools that enables advertisers to target ads specifically to any one of the millions of homes on Zillow.
October 16
Zillow is a "Gold Award Winner" in the W3 Awards, which honors creative excellence on the Web.
September 20
Zillow raises an additional $30 million in Series C funding.
September 19
Zillow was named Outstanding Web site in the Real Estate category for the 2007 Web Marketing Association's Web Awards
September 14
1 million homes have been claimed on Zillow.
July 31
Zillow's blog team launches the GeekEstate Blog, with the goal to bring together real estate professionals and tech enthusiasts to learn how technology can increase their business
July 18
250,000 homes have been posted for sale on Zillow.
July 10
Zillow launches Neighborhood Pages.
July 4
1 million photos of homes have been uploaded by Zillow users.
July 1
30,000 questions and answers have been written on Home Q&A.
June 28
Zillow has 50,000 registered real estate agents on the site.
May 24
The 1 millionth registered member joins the Zillow community.
May 10
The 2000th advertiser purchases a Zillow EZ Ad.
April 25
50,000 Make Me Move homes are posted on Zillow.
April 3
Zillow Community launches where anyone can "write to the site," by asking questions and sharing information.
March 4
More than 50,000 homes are posted for sale — an average of 526 homes posted per day by agents and homeowners since the posting tool launched on Dec. 6, 2006.
February 28
Take a virtual tour of the neighborhood — Bird's Eye View coverage is expanded from 22 million to 37 million homes.
February 21
Page counters are added to every home details page on the site, allowing you to see how many people have visited your home on Zillow.
February 19
Zillow is the featured cover story on Fortune Magazine.
February 8
Zillow turns 1 year old! In just one year's time, Zillow provides anyone the ability to get a starting point Zestimate® home valuation, to post any home in the U.S. for sale, and to set a Make Me Move® price — all for free!
January 4
Our unique and fun Make Me Move feature hits the 10,000 mark in homes that have a MMM price. An average of 345 owners per day have added a Make Me Move price to their home since the MMM tool launched.
2006
December 10
28 million unique homes have been viewed on Zillow.
December 6
With a virtual roar, Zillow President Lloyd Frink announces, "We're Opening It Up!" This release, known internally as Z4, gives agents and owners the ability to post any home in the U.S. for sale and homeowners can set a Make Me Move price — all of this for free! Not to be forgotten, the Zillow® Real Estate Guide launches with more than 200 articles.
November 14
Zillow, only 9 months old, is named one of AdvertisingAge's 2006 "Marketing 50," which honors products that "broke through the clutter and delivered real impact." The list includes heavy hitters such as Dunkin' Donuts, Xbox 360, Gatorade, Visa, Comcast, and Verizon Wireless.
October 26
Zillow launches its Open API, allowing any Web site to add Zillow data and functionality.
October 11
In nearly one month's time, 100,000 homes are claimed on Zillow.
September 23
We don't know who they are or where they're from, but the 25-millionth person visits Zillow. We'd like to think that virtual balloons fell from the sky and music was piped in to welcome this person.
September 19
Z2 launches, allowing homeowners to claim their homes and edit their home facts in the Zillow database. This is Zillow's entry into the Web 2.0 read-write functionality.
August 21
Less than 7 months old, Zillow hires its 100th employee.
August 14
Wrestling zillions of data points to the ground, Dr. Stan and his analytics team release our first Quarterly Home Value Report, which provides snapshots of housing trends in several markets.
August 11
TIME Magazine names Zillow one of its 50 Coolest Websites, defined as "shining examples of Web 2.0: next-generation sites offering dynamic new ways to inform and entertain, sites with cutting-edge tools to create, consume, share or discuss all manners of media, from blog posts to video clips."
July 27
Zillow Mobile launches, allowing anyone with a mobile phone or handheld device to get a Zestimate and basic facts about a home after entering an address into their device.
July 18
Yahoo! Real Estate and Yahoo! Search form a partnership with Zillow to add Zestimates and other Zillow data to its Web site.
July 17
Zillow's blog team launches the Carnival of Real Estate with the goal to foster community among real estate bloggers.
June 19
You just can't hold a good developer's creativity down. Zillow Labs launches.
May 31
Zillow's wildly popular City Heat Maps launch, which are a real estate version of "Hot or Not."
April 28
Our first edition of Famous Homes goes live, reacquainting ourselves with famous mansions (Beverly Hillbillies, Playboy) and regular ol' homes (Brady Bunch, Happy Days) among many others. Famous Scary Homes follow in October.
April 13
Bird's Eye Views were added to many areas of the country alongside home details and Zestimates, providing 3D-like, high-resolution aerial images of homes.
March 29
The Zillow Home Report e-mail launches, providing subscribers with the ability to track up to 25 homes at a time on a monthly basis.
February 10
Online for only two days, Zillow welcomes its millionth visitor.
February 8
Zillow — the beta — launches, crashes, and launches again, all within the first 12 hours.
