Keyword: Zillow

Zillow ends Listings API, pulls FSBOs from Redfin, other sites

Zillow ends Listings API, pulls FSBOs from Redfin, other sites

Pulling FSBOs Redfin announced today that their site will no longer feature homes for sale by owner (FSBO), beginning Thursday, as Zillow will no longer be sending FSBO and other manually posted listings to be displayed on their site. Redfin is not alone, as this impacts any real estate brokerage, website or service that is featuring listings through Zillow’s Postings ...

Tara Steele | 2012/02/06  | 16 Comments Business News

Defending third party real estate sites’ SEO tactics

Defending third party real estate sites’ SEO tactics

SEO methods under fire Last month, we reported that the debate over third party real estate sites’ SEO tactics has been renewed as listing syndication rules change and as various brokers across the nation pull their listings feed from the third party sites. The scene is changing. For years, third party real estate media sites have been under scrutiny by ...

AGBeat | 2012/02/06  | 18 Comments Editorials

Zillow taps Facebook for Neighborhood Advice launch

Zillow taps Facebook for Neighborhood Advice launch

Neighborhood Advice on Facebook Today, Zillow has launched Neighborhood Advice, a social home-shopping experience that the company says helps buyers and renters find the right neighborhood to live in by enabling them to easily tap their Facebook friends for personal advice while searching homes on Zillow. While shopping on Zillow, users are prompted to activate Facebook Connect which generates a ...

Tara Steele | 2012/01/19  | 13 Comments Business News

Most and least desirable celebrity neighbors for 2012

Most and least desirable celebrity neighbors for 2012

Who Americans would love or hate as a neighbor According to the fifth annual Zillow Celebrity Neighbor Survey, more than two in five Americans said they would not want a celebrity neighbor, up 56 percent from last year which appears to have reality tv show “Jersey Shore” to blame, as by far, the cast of the show was voted as ...

Tara Steele | 2011/12/28  | 34 Comments News

Economists predict home prices will continue sliding

Economists predict home prices will continue sliding

An economic consensus According to the December 2011 Zillow® Home Price Expectations Survey, home prices are expected to drop 1.57 percent in the fourth quarter of 2011 and prices are forecasted to continue dropping until the housing market hits its bottom which Zillow says will be in late 2012 or early 2013 at which point, economists expect a “relatively steady ...

Tara Steele | 2011/12/20  | 13 Comments Economy

Zillow Mortgage Marketplace expands AOL partnership

Zillow Mortgage Marketplace expands AOL partnership

Zillow Mortgages on AOL Real estate and DailyFinance Today, the Zillow Mortgage Marketplace (ZMM) has announced they will now power mortgage search and comparison on AOL Real Estate and DailyFinance, expanding their existing partnership with AOL, having announced in October that ZMM would power all mortgage research on AOL which was expected to launch in 2012. ZMM will be featured ...

Tara Steele | 2011/12/19  | 10 Comments Mortgage

Zillow adds Century 21 chief marketing officer to Advisory Board

Zillow adds Century 21 chief marketing officer to Advisory Board

Zillow adds Advisory Board member Zillow is announcing today the addition of CENTURY 21 Real Estate LLC’s chief marketing officer, Bev Thorne to Zillow’s Broker Advisory Board which “provides counsel on existing Zillow® services for the real estate industry, and evaluates ideas for future products and services.” “We’re thrilled to have Bev Thorne on the Zillow Broker Advisory Board. Her ...

Tara Steele | 2011/12/05  | 13 Comments News

Zillow launches Android Tablet app, incorporates voice search and GPS

Zillow launches Android Tablet app, incorporates voice search and GPS

Zillow launches Android Tablet app Zillow joins the ranks of real estate search sites on Android, releasing a “photo-driven home shopping experience built specifically for the Android Tablet’s high-resolution, touch-screen interface,” just a week after launching their Kindle Fire app, bringing their mobile app count to eight available formats. Zillow says their Android Tablet App is the only real estate ...

Tara Steele | 2011/11/22  | 12 Comments News

The 11 most expensive homes across America

The 11 most expensive homes across America

We recently reported on America’s top 10 least expensive homes and found listings for as low as $3,000 and while we enjoy finding the deals across the nation, we wanted to contrast those ten listings with the following eleven which are the most expensive cities in the top 11 largest metropolitan areas in America and note the large disparity in ...

Charlene Jimenez | 2011/11/21  | 50 Comments News

Zillow to launch free Kindle Fire real estate search app

Zillow to launch free Kindle Fire real estate search app

Kindle Fire launches, Zillow responds In September, we introduced you to the Amazon Kindle, calling it a legitimate iPad competitor that costs only $199 and impressed us wildly with the Amazon Silk browser which simply put is a browser that runs in the cloud and is ridiculously innovative. In response to what could be an iPad competitor, Zillow has launched ...

Tara Steele | 2011/11/14  | 14 Comments News

Zillow Chief Economist estimates home prices will hit the bottom in 2012

Zillow Chief Economist estimates home prices will hit the bottom in 2012

Third quarter home values report For the third quarter, there is a mixture of good news and bad news. The level of single family homeowners underwater in the third quarter is up to 28.6 percent from 26.8 percent in the past quarter while home values continue to “tread water” as real estate media company Zillow phrased it, dropping only 0.2 ...

Tara Steele | 2011/11/08  | 47 Comments Economy

Zillow announces acquisition of IDX company Diverse Solutions

Zillow announces acquisition of IDX company Diverse Solutions

Zillow + Diverse Solutions Zillow announced today that it has acquired Diverse Solutions, a six year old, California based IDX company in an effort to expand their “total addressable market as a technology platform for agents,” following their last major acquisition of Postlets.com. Both acquisitions are of companies that help real estate agents market property listings. The $7.8 million acquisition ...

AGBeat | 2011/11/02  | 32 Comments Seattle