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President Obama to Answer Housing Questions from Zillow Users Today

Virtual Roundtable Scheduled for Wednesday, Aug. 7 at 10 a.m. PDT; Will be Live-Streamed on Zillow.com/WhiteHouse, Yahoo.com, WhiteHouse.gov

Aug 7, 2013

SEATTLE, Aug. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- President Barack Obama today will answer questions from U.S. homeowners, renters and prospective buyers in a live-streamed event entitled Zillow Presents: A Better Bargain for Responsible Homeowners: President Obama Answers Your Questions. Zillow, Inc. (NASDAQ: Z), the leading real estate marketplace, will host the event.

WHO: President Barack Obama addresses questions submitted via social media from homeowners, renters and prospective buyers. Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff will moderate.

WHAT: A virtual roundtable in which President Obama will answer housing questions submitted via social media, using the hashtag #AskObamaHousing.

WHERE: Streamed live at Zillow.com/WhiteHouse; Yahoo.com, WhiteHouse.gov. Follow the conversation on social media using the hashtag #AskObamaHousing.

WHEN: 10 a.m. PDT/1 p.m. EDT

Yahoo!® is the media partner for the event and will be the exclusive media outlet to carry the live stream. Zillow® and Yahoo! are longtime partners and together form the Yahoo!-Zillow Real Estate Network, the largest real estate network on the Web1.

About Zillow, Inc.

Zillow, Inc. (NASDAQ: Z) operates the leading real estate and home-related marketplaces on mobile and the Web, with a complementary portfolio of brands and products that help people find vital information about homes, and connect with the best local professionals. Zillow's brands serve the full life cycle of owning and living in a home: buying, selling, renting, financing, remodeling and more. In addition, Zillow offers a suite of tools and services to help local real estate, mortgage, rental and home improvement professionals manage and market their businesses. Welcoming more than 61 million monthly unique users in July 2013, the Zillow, Inc. portfolio includes Zillow.com®, Zillow Mobile, Zillow Mortgage Marketplace, Zillow Rentals, Zillow Digs™, Postlets®, Diverse Solutions®, Agentfolio™, Mortech™ and HotPads™. The company is headquartered in Seattle.

Zillow.com, Zillow, Postlets and Diverse Solutions are registered trademarks of Zillow, Inc. Agentfolio, Mortech, HotPads and Digs are trademarks of Zillow, Inc.

Yahoo! is a registered trademark of Yahoo! Inc.

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1 Source: comScore Media Metrix Real Estate Category Ranking by Unique Visitors, May 2013, US Data. 

SOURCE Zillow, Inc.

For further information: Katie Curnutte, katiec@zillow.com, 206-757-2701