Katie Curnutte's Q&A

Looks like our latest data (from July) shows the Salinas metro area with a flat month-over-month change (a good sign), although still down significantly year-over-year. Check out our data on Salinas here.

sunnyview is right, no news on the subject. But, if you're interested, Zillow just did a survey and analysis to see how an extension would affect the housing market. Check out the blog post here.

Hi fwg,We did drop a lot of that from our site when we revamped our Real Estate Market Reports a couple months ago. Hopefully we'll reinstate it soon. But I do have a lot of that data, even though it's not on the site, so let me know if there's a specific area you're interested in.

Hi analyst -You can download Zillow data from our market reports page. Select the geography you want to see and use the "download full report" link on the left side of the page. If you want a time series of a certain metric, select that metric and use the "download time series" link.Hope that helps.

Hi pinkhouse -- I'm glad you found Zillow helpful when looking for your comps. I looked into some of our Palm Springs data. The latest we have is from Q2, which ended in June (although July numbers will be out very soon). Looking at aggregate data of all the homes in the area, it doesn't looking like we're registering a rebound quite yet. Check out the section of the site with Palm Springs data.The good news, however, is that sales across California have been picking up lately, and the rate of home value decline in some of these areas has slowed. This doesn't point to a rebound quite yet -- we're predicting a long, flat bottom of the real estate market before we really see prices turn a corner. We're hopeful we'll reach that bottom sometime next year.That said, this all varies by city and ZIP code. It's entirely possible that some places will reach the bottom sooner than others. Now that we're reporting our data monthly, we'll be able to see sooner when that happens. Maybe you're seeing a trend in Palm Springs that hasn't yet been reflected in our aggregate-level data, but be sure to keep checking back -- we update the data every two weeks.

We've been working with a reporter and providing her with data on negative equity, but she's looking for a homeowner to talk about their own situation to round out her story. If you are underwater and wouldn't mind talking to a national reporter, please just respond to this question.Thanks,Katie from Zillow

A reporter I've been working with is hoping to interview someone who is in this situation. Maybe someone who is hoping to move, but doesn't have to, and is just sitting back and waiting until things look better for sellers. She is reachable at (202) 513-2190.

No plans for a BlackBerry app at the moment, Mary. Sorry about that. We just launched an app for the iPhone, so we'll see what kind of feedback we get from that before thinking about apps for other devices.

I'm in Zillow's PR department, and a reporter I know just asked if I knew anyone who was using interesting incentives to sell homes. Anybody use any or know anyone who does? Good publicity opportunity here!

There is an awful lot of confusion out there about this! Andrew, are you doing anything to gear up for this? What should borrowers be doing to get ready to apply?