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July 27, 2006

Zillow - API and Mobile Feature

Michael Arrington

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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.

The Zillow API is still being developed, although they’ve given some details on the Zillow blog. Yahoo is already using the API, as well as this test site from a company that build sites for agents.

The mobile feature allows you to obtain the value of a house by email/sms. To use it, text or email a home address to z@labs.zillow.com. I agree with SocketSite - Zillow Mobile you no longer have to wait until you get home from a dinner party to figure out how much your host’s house is worth. Another use, of course, is to check home values in a neighborhood when you visit an open house.

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  1. Innovation Zen

    July 27th, 2006 at 11:33 am

    The convergence between devices and platforms is something most companies should look for. The integration between web services and mobile phones, for instance, was also used by Dodgeball, I think it was covered in Techcrunch as well.

  2. Vidyut Luther

    July 27th, 2006 at 12:39 pm

    This looks very promising. Combine this with http://www.cellulist.com/ and you’re set.

  3. Ron

    July 27th, 2006 at 12:43 pm

    That’s so awesome, I just tried it and it works great.

  4. BlogReader

    July 27th, 2006 at 12:57 pm

    I’m missing the SMS portion of this, it looks solely like email. SMS would require a shortcode and a service plan, both of which are a lot harder and more expensive than they should be.

  5. PJ Conley

    July 27th, 2006 at 12:59 pm

    Never mind Cellulist - Realtor.com already has the market cornered with thousands of the MLS’s in the country (not to mention existing relationships with the vast majority of brokerages). If realtor.com was smart they would introduce the exact same thing for their MLS listings. Not only could the person interested in the house get a text message with all the important details, two minutes later the listing agent could call and schedule an appoint to see the house - or create a function for that!

    Meanwhile I could be using Zillow to do my research on the comp values and trends in the area.

    Cool stuff! Wish I could invest now.

    -pjc

  6. howard lindzon

    July 27th, 2006 at 1:21 pm

    PJ

    Realtor shareholders are rather spooked or not as confident as you based on the share price of MOVE, formerly HOMS and owner of realtor.com

    I would say you are wrong on this count of the market being cornered.

    I would say, the market is about to be changes in a big way

    just posted on it as well.

  7. Arjun Banker

    July 27th, 2006 at 3:20 pm

    BlogReader,

    You’re right - it does operate over e-mail. Luckily, most mobile phones support sending text-messages to e-mail addresses. Hope it works for you!

    Arjun Banker,
    Zillow Mobile Developer

  8. Nick Gavronsky

    July 27th, 2006 at 5:59 pm

    Awesome, could definitely help them expand their market. Should be interesting to see how much it is used. Could be useful for agents scouting prospective homes to sell.

  9. Rob Brennecke

    July 28th, 2006 at 6:47 am

    Nice site. A little disappointed that although my home of eight years appeared in the aerial image, Zillow said that there were no homes in the area.
    Good luck, overall it looks like a winner!

  10. Phil Ayres

    July 28th, 2006 at 9:53 am

    Here is another company providing mobile requests for more information - they list several use cases beyond the real estate one shown here: http://www.kribsheet.com/

    Cheers
    Phil

    Blogging on enterprise software usecases at: http://improving-nao.blogspot.com

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