Zillow^® Timeline

Below is a timeline of key events at Zillow since launching on Feb. 8, 2006.

2008

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 2^nd 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.