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Zillow

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Zillow is a website started in early 2005 by Rich Barton and Lloyd Frink focused on providing free home valuations called Zestimates. “Zestimates” are home valuations computed using their proprietary formula. Around their Zestimates service, Zillow has built a marketplace for home buyers and sellers to list their homes.

The site and service launched February 8th, 2006, and within two days they had served their millionth visitor. Over the course of the year Zillow set out to expand their site’s features, incorporating a heat map and 3D view into their service. Zillow was facing other competition at time with the launch of Real Estate ABC and the existing housing search site Trulia.

On July 18th, 2006, Zillow landed a big deal with Yahoo to serve as a data point on Yahoo’s real estate and search sites.

Toward the latter half of 2006, Zillow added the ability to claim and correct your home valuation, a much needed feature as the service grew in relevance. In one month, over 100,000 homes were claimed. The period also saw the site opening up its services with the release of a mobile application, API, “Make Me Move” price, and the ability to post listings on the site for free.

In 2007, Zillow relaunched with more social features, including a questions and answer feature, and user posted photos of their homes.

Competitors include: Trulia, Redfin, Cyberhomes, Terabitz, and Realtor.com.

Milestones

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  Zillow — Zillow enters cold season, but traffic still up over last year (11/10/09)
  Posted 11/10/09 at 11:18am
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  Zillow — Lenders protest Zillow.com's new fees for mortgage leads (11/6/09)
  Posted 11/10/09 at 11:18am
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  Zillow — Launches real estate ad network in conjunction with the Zillow Newspaper Consortium (9/9/08)
  Posted 9/10/08 at 2:20pm
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  Zillow — Buyers now can search among nearly three million for-sale listings on Zillow (7/22/08)
  Posted 7/23/08 at 8:27am
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  Zillow received $30M in Series C funding. (9/1/07)
  Posted 9/19/07 at 12:25pm
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  Zillow received $25M in Series B funding. (7/1/06)
  Posted 9/19/07 at 11:49am
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  Zillow received $32M in Series A funding. (10/1/05)
  Posted 9/19/07 at 11:51am
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  Zillow added David Beitel as Chief Technology Officer.
  Posted 9/19/07 at 9:31am
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  Zillow added Lloyd Frink as President.
  Posted 9/19/07 at 9:31am
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  Zillow added Stan Humphries as Vice President of Data and Analytics.
  Posted 9/19/07 at 9:33am
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  Zillow added Richard Barton as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.
  Posted 9/19/07 at 9:21am
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  Zillow added Kristin Acker as Vice President, Product Teams.
  Posted 9/19/07 at 9:18am
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  Zillow added Liam Lavery as General Counsel.
  Posted 9/19/07 at 12:17pm
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  Zillow added Spencer Rascoff as Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of.
  Posted 9/19/07 at 12:17pm
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  Zillow added Christopher Roberts as Vice President, Product Teams.
  Posted 9/19/07 at 12:18pm
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  Zillow added Greg Schwartz as Vice President of Sales.
  Posted 9/19/07 at 12:19pm

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Zestimates

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Website	zillow.com
Launch Date	February 8, 2006
Tags	realty

Above: Zestimates Screenshot -- #1
Uploaded: 2/5/08

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4. Buyers now can search among nearly three million for-sale listings on Zillow®, including new construction, foreclosures, land and Make Me Move® homes (zillow.mediaroom.com) [edit]
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