Last week Zillow laid the smack down on the developer of the iZillow iphone-optimized webpage (see Zillow for iPhone), demanding that he pull down the site.

Sellsius blog has the low down.

A statement received by this blog this afternoon reads:

We reached an amicable agreement to purchase the URL. I don’t want to discuss the agreed price but it’s more than the $250 he 1st requested.

He can continue to run the site with different branding. Pity this got unnecessarily heated; other than this, Auston seems like a good guy.

Kudos to both parties for being able to come to a friendly agreement.

Now back to zestimating your neighbor’s house.

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Very cool. Probably not legal. But I’ve been using it anyway.

iZillow.net

Hit it on your iPhone. It’s super slick (coded using Safire). Just in time too… (see Apple Releases SDK Kit for iPhone).

I doubt this is an in-house project. If it’s not, I hope the Z-team hires this guy and finds a way to bring it to Seattle before they shut it down.

Alternatively they could rebuild it themselves – the code’s right here.

Update – Spoke too soon it seems. The URL now seems to be kind of flakey… switching between the original site and a iGoogle page. Could it be it’s caught in the crossfire of a DNS switch after a Zillow takedown order? (The Z-team responds in comments) In any case, I captured a screen cap anyway if it goes away for good.

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