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Rich Barton and Lloyd Frink begin assembling a team to revolutionize the way people search and shop for homes.

Zillow launches, attracting more than 1 million visitors within the first three days, ultimately overloading the servers and crashing the website.

Zillow launches Smart Search, a dynamic new version of its search system, developed to make it easier for customers to find the homes most relevant to them.

Zillow launches Mortgage Marketplace, a free and transparent tool that allows borrowers to request anonymous and hassle-free mortgage loan quotes from lenders directly through Zillow.

Zillow launches the Zillow iPhone app with dynamic map technologies, delivering data on 88 million homes directly into users’ hands.

Zillow adds rental listings to its database, which now includes more than 90 million homes. Buyers, sellers and renters can now search for both homes for sale and rental homes on Zillow.

Steve Jobs shows off Zillow on the iPad during Apple’s OS 4.0 event.

Zillow’s first CEO, Rich Barton, becomes executive chair of the board, and Spencer Rascoff becomes CEO of Zillow.

Zillow launches agent ratings and reviews, giving home buyers and sellers the ability to search for and find local real estate agents based on reviews from former clients.

Zillow adds Zestimate home valuations to more than 25 million new homes and improves Zestimate accuracy to 8.5% nationwide.

Zillow becomes a public company, trading on NASDAQ under the ticker symbol “Z.”

Zillow launches the first mobile app for rentals.

Zillow acquires HotPads, expanding the size of its growing rental audience and extending the reach of its marketing tools and productivity solutions for rental professionals.

Zillow acquires StreetEasy, New York City's leading real estate marketplace.

Zillow launches its mortgage pre-approval tool for home shoppers.

Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff and Chief Economist Stan Humphries’ book “Zillow Talk: The New Rules of Real Estate” hits newsstands, debuting as No. 2 on The New York Times Best Sellers list.

Zillow acquires Trulia and announces the formation of Zillow Group, a portfolio of real estate and home-related brands.

Zillow unveils the Premier Agent platform.

Zillow boosts the accuracy of the Zestimate model with an update to the algorithm, improving median error rate to 6%.

Zillow signs the White House Equal Pay Pledge.

Zillow Group pledges $5 million in cash and in-kind contributions to address housing insecurity as part of the company’s first social impact program.

Zillow begins to add Canadian listings to its mobile app and website.

Zillow Group acquires Mortgage Lenders of America, making it possible to finance a home directly through Zillow’s new affiliated mortgage lender.

Rich Barton returns as CEO of Zillow Group to lead the company’s work in transforming how people move; Lloyd Frink is named executive chairman.

Zillow renames its affiliated lender Zillow Home Loans, allowing home shoppers the opportunity to get financing directly from a Zillow affiliate.

Zillow launches AI-powered 3D Home Tours across the U.S. and Canada, giving millions of home buyers and sellers access to immersive virtual home tours.

Zillow Group releases its inaugural Sustainability Report, which details the company’s commitment to environmental, social impact and governance practices.

Zillow launches new digital renter tools, including a lease uploader and online signing, to help renters move during COVID-19.

Zillow expands fair housing advocacy, adding information about local legal protections for the LGBTQ community on all listings.

Zillow Group moves to the cloud (Cloud HQ) and announces that most employees will have the flexibility to work from home indefinitely.

Zillow joins the National Association of Realtors, integrating listings from MLS databases nationwide into Zillow.com.

Zillow expands fair housing advocacy, adding information about local legal protections for source of income to rental listings.

Zillow launches Neural Zestimate, a new model to help the Zestimate better react to the housing market, improving median error rate to 6.9%.

Zillow Group acquires ShowingTime, the industry leader in home-touring technology.

Zillow shares its vision for the future of home buying, selling and renting: the “housing super app.”

Zillow Group launches ShowingTime+ to bring together leading industry software tools in a single, streamlined brand.

Zillow Group acquires VRX Media to create national photographer network and elevate listing media through the ShowingTime+ brand.

Zillow’s new AI-powered natural language search is a first in real estate.

Zillow launches a new selling experience, giving home sellers the choice between a cash offer from Opendoor and the option to work with a Zillow Premier Agent.

Zillow Group acquires Aryeo, a leading real estate media software platform, to join ShowingTime+ and help deliver richer home-shopping experiences.

Zillow Group acquires Follow Up Boss, one of real estate’s leading customer relationship management (CRM) systems, designed to enable agents to better serve their customers and grow their businesses.

A new page, advocacy.zillowgroup.com, elaborates on Zillow's marketplace principles and outlines how Zillow is working to elevate real estate industry standards on consumers' behalf.

Zillow Showcase, an AI-powered premium listing experience, becomes available nationwide for listing agents.

Zillow creates, and open-sources, a Fair Housing Classifier to mitigate the risk of bias or illegal “steering” within AI-powered search and chatbots.

Zillow Home Loans launches BuyAbility, a tool combining real-time mortgage rates with personalized info to help buyers understand what they can afford.

Longtime Zillow Group executive and COO Jeremy Wacksman is promoted to CEO. Rich Barton becomes co-executive chair of the Board of Directors, alongside co-founder Lloyd Frink.

Zillow Group acquires Virtual Staging AI, a company whose technology helps home sellers, agents and photographers create digitally staged listing images in seconds.

Zillow and Redfin announce a partnership making Zillow the exclusive provider of multifamily rental listings on Redfin and its sites, Rent.com and ApartmentGuide.com.

Several brokerages, consumer advocates and industry leaders join Zillow in a commitment to upholding listing transparency.

Zillow launches SkyTour, a new feature that gives home shoppers an interactive, drone-like experience to explore a home’s exterior.

Zillow becomes the first real estate app in ChatGPT.

Zillow announces Zillow Pro, a suite of products designed to transform how agents capture business and meet consumers needs.