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Zillow Inc.

The Afternoon Wrap: Wednesday

  • The popular Zillow Web site is often right when it entertainingly estimates home values. "But when Zillow is bad, it can be terrible -- off the mark by more than 25% on one in 10 homes." But really, how much does $2 million matter in Manhattan real estate? [WSJ via Luxist]
  • Can Williamsburg hipsters Read More

How to Zillow Your Ex-Wife

So, Newsweek finally jumps on the Zillow bandwagon. Remember the Zillow fervor a few months back? We vaguely do. Anyway, CFO Spencer Raskoff emphasizes that people might use Zillow for reasons outside of house-hunting. Zillowers are looking at their boss, ex-wife, the girl they didn't marry. We've heard great stories about people zillowing Read More

Thursday: Zillow II and Other Trackers

  • Almost 300 years of history gets eaten up by eminent domain for the Fulton Street Transit Center project, Lisa Chamberlain of Polis reports. (The New York Times)
  • What if information could be physical? What if the memories you associate with that drunken night in the Lower East Side and the office hours Read More

Trulia and Property Shark Join Forces

We were late receiving the press release from Trulia.com and PropertyShark about a reciprocal arrangement to share data (though The Walk-Through got it a couple hours ago). Here's why they're doing it, according to a statement from PropertyShark founder Matthew Haines: “As the real-estate data market heats up, with lavishly-funded start-ups like Zillow joining Read More

Manhattan Swept Up In Zillow’s Midnight Ride

At midnight on Feb. 8, the mysterious new Web site created by the swashbuckling Web entrepreneur Richard Barton was scheduled to go live. If all goes as planned—at press time, it appeared it would—it’s going to be a weird moment. The story of Zillow.com has been, from start to finish, an anachronism: a stealth start-up Read More

Manhattan Swept Up In Zillow’s Midnight Ride

At midnight on Feb. 8, the mysterious new Web site created by the swashbuckling Web entrepreneur Richard Barton was scheduled to go live. If all goes as planned—at press time, it appeared it would—it’s going to be a weird moment.

The story of Zillow.com has been, from start to finish, an anachronism: a stealth start-up Read More

Zillow Launches. Get Your Zestimate!

Zillow.com Zillow is here. From what we hear, the pressure-cooker environment in which the launch was being anticipated--and in many cases beaten to the market by prospective competitors--had a lot to do with the sudden launch, initially scheduled loosely for the Spring or thought to be on hold till the Summer. Look for the Read More


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