Back in January 2007, Zillow revealed to us they were going into the rental market. Now they have.
Now people can list property for rent on Zillow. The cost is $9.95 for 180 days — “or until the home is rented” (according to Zillow blog). [Interestingly, all listings are displayed as "featured"-- I wonder why, since [...]
(image lifted from Zillow blog)
Zillow (together with a couple of Diverse Solutions dudes) has created trulia truly a neat Wordpress Real Estate plug-in for displaying city information from:
Zillow.com (natch)
Education.com (school information)
Flickr
Walk Score and
Yelp
— on a single page.
It’s called Local Market Explorer. Download it here.
Zillow clearly sees the trend toward aggregating and organizing [...]
A media real estate site cannot serve two masters ~Sellsius
Zillow now has expandable Showcase Ads to compete with listings for a visitor’s attention.
How It Works in Theory:
Buy a Showcase Ad
When visitors hover over your ad, it expands, showing more content, plus a contact form
When visitors click on your ad, they go to your Web site [...]
For all the celebrating of Zillow’s new iPhone app, a glance back at history shows the first Zillow iPhone app hit the streets back in May 2008 as iZillow. It is now coming back to bite the creator, Auston Bunsen, in Z butt.
Auston says he used the Zillow API to create an iphone app [...]
Zillow does the Full Monty of homes on your iPhone.
Now, you can see the guesstimated value of any house in a drive-by using your iPhone and the Zillow IPhone app. Diabolical. And cool, in a Big Brotherish kinda way. (And sure to be on every burglar’s Christmas list.) Read More at the [...]
You say tomato, I say tomahto. Let’s call the whole thing off! ~George & Ira Gershwin
Now, before Zillow’s David Gibbons comes by to argue semantics again, I have always opined that allowing folks other than the homeowner or listing agent to “note” a home for sale on Zillow.com was the same as “advertising” it for [...]
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence ~Henry Louis Mencken
Because I am a homeowner, I am not a Zillow lover. I’m not saying the whole site is a turn off (it’s not, by the way) but only that, IMO, it violates certain homeowner rights– including:
how their home is marketed and advertised (with or without [...]
