What does it take to make a home estimate more accurate? Ask this guy.

Feb 1, 2019
Jordan Meyer and his teammates won $1 million for improving the Zillow Zestimate algorithm.
Stan Humphries, Zillow chief analytics officer, and Jordan Meyer, of Raleigh, North Carolina, celebrate Meyer's team’s $1 million win of Zillow Prize, Zillow’s competition to improve the accuracy of the Zestimate.
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How a red-hot housing market made Zillow a media company

Jun 20, 2018
CEO Spencer Rascoff talks surviving the recession to end up in a booming housing market.
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Tax changes could have big effect on housing

Dec 19, 2017
The tax advantages of home ownership would likely be available to wealthier taxpayers, and high tax regions would take the biggest hit.
A bicyclist rides by a row of homes in San Francisco, California.
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This new real estate site is aimed at first-time buyers

May 4, 2017
The real estate site Zillow has launched a new tool aimed at first-time home buyers on realestate.com. It features a calculator that adds up the expenses of owning a home, like property taxes and utilities — the kind of things that new buyers don’t always expect or budget for. It’s designed to help ease the […]

What the Zillow-Trulia deal means for real estate

Jul 28, 2014
We look at the real estate business following the $3.5 billion Zillow-Trulia deal.
Zillow is changing the game for real estate as they look to acquire their competitor, Trulia.
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San Francisco tops trick-or-treat rankings

Oct 21, 2011
Zillow has released its list of the top 20 trick-or-treat destinations in the US. Top of the charts: San Francisco. The city scored highest on w...