In a post over at CNet, Rafe Needleman tagged Zillow as one of “the next Kozmos” (for more on Kozmo check out Wikipedia). Needleman writes:
The real-estate site’s revenue model is advertising. Real estate and bank advertising. Unless the real-estate research site starts charging for foreclosure listings, I don’t see it doing too well in a [...]
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Zillow lays off 25 percent of workforce.
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Yawn.
Don’t get me wrong. I think a Zillow Ad Network makes some sense.
And unlike Valleywag, who calls it a “desperate ploy to make sales numbers,” I do see some value in publishers aggregating their advertising inventory for potential real estate advertisers.
I’ll go on the record, I don’t think this is a Hail [...]
Google Insights for Search is a fantastic new tool that allows you to dig into Google’s search volume patterns to find trends.
While I think there are a lot of ways you can use this tool (see agentgenius.com), I think that for most marketers the geographic breakdowns will be one of the most interesting - mainly [...]
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Since Zillow launched its Zillow Mortgage Marketplace it has received over 28,000 loan requests (see Zillow Mortgage Marketplace Borrowers Have Spoken). Pretty good showing for a service that is only a little over a month old.
But it seems like Zillow is not the only online player who’s eyeing this market as an [...]
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 [...]
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Forget about unique visitors, pageviews, # of listings…
Zillow beat Trulia to win the 2008 Real Estate Webby Award.
Trulia did pickup the People’s Voice award however, so let’s just call it a wash.
Other nominees in the Real Estate category were:
http://www.livinghomes.net/
http://www.livinghomes.net
Centerplan.dk
http://www.unit9.com/awards/cente…
Rentomatic
http://www.rentomatic.com
Congrats to all.
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Zillow just took the wraps off of their secretive new mortgage product (see A New Opportunity for Mortgage Professionals). Go check it out - it’s a pretty impressive addition to their site.
In a nutshell: it’s a total reversal of the normal online mortgage quote process. At Zillow, consumers fill out a RFQ for a loan [...]
Like many in the real estate blogosphere I’ve been playing around with Twitter a lot recently. (Follow me here jburslem)
I wrote a post on the Inman Blog recently where I described one application of the service; how you could use it to subscribe to news and essentially build a real time teleprinter for your [...]
I’m going to disagree with Dustin (see Zillow gives us some remodeling porn), Zillow’s new Dueling Digs game isn’t that much fun.
But I suspect I’m not the target market for this sort of game. Online real estate is strictly a utilitarian activity for me (wow, the presbyterian Scot in me really comes out with that [...]
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