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Zillow Adds 45,000 For-Sale-By-Owner Listings to the Most Comprehensive Web and Mobile Real Estate Shopping Experience

Independent Home Sellers Now Can Market and Distribute Their For-Sale Listings For Free

Oct 13, 2011

 

 

SEATTLE, Oct. 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Zillow® (NASDAQ: Z), the leading real estate information marketplace, today announced the addition of 45,000 for-sale-by-owner (FSBO) listings to its database of millions of existing FSBO, for-sale-by-agent and rental listings. Zillow offers web and mobile home shoppers the most comprehensive and searchable selection of real estate listings together on one map: for-sale-by-agent, for-sale-by-owner, for-rent, foreclosures, new construction and vacant land.

"If you're serious about home shopping and are simply viewing listings from traditional real estate websites, you're not seeing the whole picture. Zillow is the only place where buyers can view all types of real estate listings together on one map. Our integrated approach to marketing all types of real estate listings, alongside Zestimate® home values and Rent Zestimates, creates the most comprehensive and data-rich shopping experience for web and mobile," said Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff.

Free Marketing Resources for Home Sellers

Additionally, home sellers now can market their FSBO listing across the web by using Postlets®, a Zillow company. Postlets allows home sellers, real estate agents and landlords to create one listing and distribute it to Zillow's more than 24 million monthly unique web and mobile users(i), as well as 13 other sites including craigslist® and Yahoo!® Real Estate.

FSBO listings come to Zillow from individual home sellers and through listings feeds from ForSaleByOwner.com™, HomesByOwner.com®, owners.com® and Postlets®.

About Zillow, Inc.

Zillow (NASDAQ: Z) is the leading real estate information marketplace, providing vital information about homes, real estate listings and mortgages through its website and mobile applications, enabling homeowners, buyers, sellers and renters to connect with real estate and mortgage professionals best suited to meet their needs. More than 24 million unique users visited Zillow's websites and mobile applications in September 2011. Zillow, Inc. operates Zillow.com®, Zillow Mortgage Marketplace, Zillow Mobile and Postlets. The company is headquartered in Seattle.

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Zillow.com, Zillow and Zestimate are registered trademarks of Zillow, Inc. Postlets is a trademark of Zillow, Inc.

Yahoo is a registered trademark of Yahoo! Inc.

craigslist is a registered trademark of craigslist, Inc.

ForSaleByOwner.com is a trademark of ForSaleByOwner.com Corp.

HomesByOwner.com is a registered trademark of FSBOOnline.com, Inc.

owners.com is a registered trademark of Owners Advantage, LLC.

(i) Internal tracking via Omniture, September  2011. Includes Zillow's websites and mobile applications.

SOURCE Zillow, Inc.