Comments on: Zillow Raises Another $25 million

By: Zillow Raises $30 Million More, Up To $87 Million in Venture Capital

Zillow Raises $30 Million More, Up To $87 Million in Venture Capital — Sat, 17 May 2008 00:06:24 +0000

[...] investors Benchmark Capital, Technology Crossover Ventures and PAR Capital. Their last round, $25 million, was announced in July [...]

By: » The New Year, Real Estate and Home Equity Lines of Credit San Francisco Real Estate

Sun, 07 Jan 2007 23:14:20 +0000

[...] G.Y.M. Is Doing More Than You Think [Found in TechCrunch] Yahoo unveiled its new Real Estate site today. The site now incorporates an interactive map displaying home price data filtered by location, price, and number of beds and baths. It draws its data from MLS listings, classified, foreclosures, and rentals. Yahoo has also fully integrated with high-profile and massively funded partner Zillow by using their technology to power a home value mashup with Yahoo maps. The new site will make life more difficult for the myriad of competing real estate websites, including newcomers such as Redfin, Trulia, Movoto, and RealEstateABC.com. [...]

By: Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Zillow Real Estate Data Coming to a Site Near You

Thu, 26 Oct 2006 17:34:55 +0000

[...] Seattle based Zillow has raised a massive $57 million in venture backing and launched its beta site in February of this year. To go from launch to being one of the major providers of data to top sites in your field in 8 months is impressive. That’s made possible in large part because of Zillow’s executive team, lead by Expedia founder and former CEO Rich Barton and former Expedia senior vice president Lloyd Frink. [...]

By: accelzone techie weblog » Yahoo Revamps Real Estate Site

accelzone techie weblog » Yahoo Revamps Real Estate Site — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 15:26:36 +0000

[...] Yahoo Revamps Real Estate Site August 29th, 2006 Yahoo unveiled its new Real Estate site today. The site now incorporates an interactive map displaying home price data filtered by location, price, and number of beds and baths. It draws its data from MLS listings, classified, foreclosures, and rentals. Yahoo has also fully integrated with high-profile and massively funded partner Zillow by using their technology to power a home value mashup with Yahoo maps. The new site will make life more difficult for the myriad of competing real estate websites, including newcomers such as Redfin, Trulia, Movoto, and RealEstateABC.com. [...]

By: Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Yahoo Revamps Real Estate Site

Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Yahoo Revamps Real Estate Site — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 07:04:48 +0000

[...] Yahoo unveiled its new Real Estate site today. The site now incorporates an interactive map displaying home price data filtered by location, price, and number of beds and baths. It draws it’s data from MLS listings, classified, foreclosures, and rentals. Yahoo has also fully integrated with high-profile and massively funded partner Zillow by using their technology to power a home value mashup with Yahoo maps. The new site will make life more difficult for the myriad of competing real estate websites, including newcomers such as Redfin, Trulia, Movoto, and RealEstateABC.com. [...]

By: Larry Cragun

Larry Cragun — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 02:35:26 +0000

Obviously they are going for an IPO. What is the next market buzz, big moo, is the question.

By: Premier league? at twopointouch

Premier league? at twopointouch — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 16:26:40 +0000

[...] I’d say that the main difference is not that we don’t have a climate of innovation and the willingness to have a go, what we lack is a risk-taking investment community. Go to your UK bank and tell them you want £50K for a Web 2.0 startup and I’m not at all positive they won’t call security, as opposed to offering up the millions that one hears about US-based startups receiving every week to all sorts of companies. Filed under: opinions | Tags: No Tags. [...]

By: SilverFusion.com » Blog Archive » Zillow - API and Mobile Feature

SilverFusion.com » Blog Archive » Zillow - API and Mobile Feature — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 19:39:47 +0000

[...] Zillow, which just raised another boatload of cash, has announced a couple of new features recently. One, the Zillow API, will be embraced by legions of real estate agents desperate to get traffic to their websites. The other, a Zillow mobile feature, will let you get a Zestimate, which is Zillow’s estimate of a home’s value, by email/SMS. [...]

By: Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Zillow - API and Mobile Feature

Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Zillow - API and Mobile Feature — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 19:29:53 +0000

By: SFSal

SFSal — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 06:01:35 +0000

at least those 118 are keeping busy. socketsite has the scoop on the new Zmobile feature (’zestimates’ via email):

http://www.socketsite.com/arch....._soon.html

By: yodude

yodude — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 07:47:10 +0000

MOVOTO is cooler than Zillow. Check it out at http://www.movoto.com

By: BloodhoundBlog - The weblog of BloodhoundRealty.com, an exceptional-service residential real estate brokerage in Metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona.

Tue, 25 Jul 2006 23:28:26 +0000

[...] Zillow.com got itself a ton of new venture capital yesterday, so today seems like a fine time to deconstruct its praxis. [...]

By: e-Fuze Mobile » Zillow Brings Web 2.0 to Real-estate

e-Fuze Mobile » Zillow Brings Web 2.0 to Real-estate — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 23:13:11 +0000

[...] Zillow is a Seattle based real-estate centric website with various web 2.0 features that helps make analyzing real-estate more efficient. It has now secured another $25 million in funding, bringing the total to $57 million in capital. It is unclear what this money is being used towards, besides paying all 118 employees. In addition, Zillow has also recently signed a distribution deal with Yahoo!. Via [...]

By: firemillen2

firemillen2 — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 20:37:01 +0000

Zillow is fun as a google map mashup…I would say the best of these map mashups…but there’s no business plan here.

I’ve located my house and was pleasantly surprised at the value they claim it is and it’s fun to spend a half hour looking for your friends homes…but would I sell my house through zillow? would I take their assessment seriously? Not now. If I want to sell my house, I would do it through a broker.

Unless zillow can break the real estate mafia, it will have no way of recouping this VC investiment. If they can break the mafia and reach critical mass, i.e. become the ebay of real estate, then they will be huge. As Rummy states, it’s a long hard slog.

By: DaveU

DaveU — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 17:49:16 +0000

for that kind of VC investment, they might be going for an IPO. or the VCs just cannot exit. i couldn’t think of anyone who would buy zillow at the new valuation(over 100 mil).

By: The Future of Real Estate Marketing

The Future of Real Estate Marketing — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 17:45:14 +0000

Zillow rolls in new cash…

John Cook reports today that Zillow.com has scored another $25 million in VC funding. Glenn Kelman, CEO of Redfin is calling this an “amazing war chest” and I tend to agree. This round of financing means Zilllow has raised a total of $57 mi…

By: Nathan Kaiser

Nathan Kaiser — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 15:36:03 +0000

I question how much they can make off advertising alone… Redfin has at least expanded to become a discount broker. I Interviewed Lloyd Frink, Zillow’s CTO (http://www.npost.com/interview.jsp?intID=INT00149) about their business model and he left it pretty open. What does everyone else think they will do to drive incremental (hopefully profitable) revenue?

By: Sam Wilson

Sam Wilson — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 15:11:10 +0000

How much has Jigsaw (www.jigsaw.com) raised to date? Are they in this same category?

By: Erik

Erik — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 14:33:43 +0000

What we all have to remember is that consumers LOVE it, so though the traditional real estate industry hasn’t embraced Zillow, the public has. They’re doing something right. Are they a little bloated in size? Maybe, but only time will tell.

By: Boris

Boris — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 13:54:13 +0000

I think this couuuld be a helpful site when looking at homes. The main issue I have with it is the fact that a lot of the listings are not up to date with current home improvements or additions. I don’t think you can rely on the people searching for homes to update this information for them because who wants to take the time if you’ve already gotten the new information for yourself (and then potentially give the information away to other buyers). Perhaps the 118 employees are working to update this information and haven’t gotten to my area but that was just my experience with the site.

By: PJ Conley

PJ Conley — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 13:17:57 +0000

For what its worth, this past weekend I demo’d Zillow to several family members (ages 50-60) and all were amazed at the service it provided and the value of some of their homes. Since we are currently in transition and seeking a permanent home in a brand new state, this a really helpful service for us, especially just to understand the home sale trends in an area (zip, city, county, etc.). Glad to see a great service, that millions will appreciate, getting the financial attention it deserves.

-pjc

By: LostInBrittany

LostInBrittany — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 11:33:01 +0000

118 employees ? More than $50 million ?
All that begins to remind me more and more of the Internet Bubble…

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 11:15:07 +0000

I actually prefer Trulia or http://www.hauteportfolio.com They are better sites and easier to use. This is another dotcom bust in my humble opinion

By: Thierry Schellenbach

Thierry Schellenbach — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 10:46:38 +0000

Dear Michael

Any word on how they plan to earn back any of that investment.
And any word on how they are keeping any of those employees except the 3 required to maintain the website and info bussy?

By: Larry Cragun

Larry Cragun — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 06:46:01 +0000

It is fun to anticipate, these guys are masters of suspense. Of course the real estate industry is stuck in old and profitable models. That makes it even more fun. Perhaps they are going to out Google Google or out List Craig. Neither is that high tek really. LarrY Cragun