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Zillow Frees Up Real Estate APIs

Real estate site Zillow.com announced today that it is releasing application programming interfaces (APIs) to developers free of charge, enabling other Internet sites to incorporate Zillow data and features in their own domains, offering detailed information from Zillow’s database of some 68 million U.S. homes.

“We understand that individuals in the real estate market today, whether it be buying or selling a home, engage with real estate professionals on a local level,” said Mark Eamer, Zillow’s director of online marketing. “While there are a handful of national real estate sites on the Web today, many thousands of local real estate agents and brokerages also have home pages, and many are looking for ways to enhance these with relevant, free information for their customers. By opening up the Zillow API, we’re putting more information in the hands of consumers, in more places.”

Zillow Real Estate Service Goes Mobile

Upstart real estate valuation site Zillow has caused a few waves, first with its “what the heck is it?” marketing launch, then inking a deal with Yahoo to provde home valuations in Yahoo Real Estate listings. Basically, the idea behind Zillow is to provide real estate investors and home buyers with estimates—er, Zestimates—of a property’s market value, along with other key information about the property which is otherwise available but time-consuming to collect. Zillow then plugs the numbers into a proprietary formula and offers its best guess about the value of a property. Some people love Zillow; some people hate it; you can generally guess from their reactions where Zillow’s estimates fell in relation to their own personal assessment of the property’s value.

Zillow Zooms in with Microsoft Photos

Hot Internet property Zillow.com has struck a deal with Microsoft to add a new feature to its real estate research site: low-altitude, bird’s-eye views of residential areas.

The images come courtesy of Microsoft’s Virtual Earth platform (which also drives Microsoft’s MapPoint services), and prove views of a home and its surroundings from four directions, enabling potential home buyers to get a better feel for the beighborhood and layout of a property. The images are displayed on Zillow alongside satellite maps, parcel information, estimated home valuations, and home data. Imagery is currently available for selected U.S. metropolitan areas (including Seattle, San Francisco, Boston, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles) with more coverage to be added during 2006.

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