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Lots of Zillow Love at the NAR convention
Thanks to all who stopped by our booth and helped make the NAR convention so successful for us; we appreciated getting to speak to so many agents who are using the site regularly to help grow their business. Below are a few words from agents and brokers we spoke with at the show! Click here to view the embedded video. Click here to view the embedded video. Click here to view the embedded video. Click here to view the embedded video
Boston.com Now Using Zillow API to Power Recent Homes Sales Functionality
We’re pleased to announce that Boston.com , the website of the Boston Globe, is now part of the Zillow API program and is using it to power their recent home sales functionality on their real estate landing page . Though our recent sales data is part of the Local Market Explorer WP Plug-in, Boston.com is the first member of the Zillow API program to build a custom integration utilizing our recent sales data. In each region, transaction data for the 20 most recently sold properties can be retrieved and displayed. For example, here are recent sales transactions in Boston , Brookline , Cambridge , Quincy , Milton , Somerville , Newton , Dedham , Everett , Chelsea , Revere , Hartford, CT , Stamford, CT , and Providence, RI .
New! Zillow Video Training Center – Your FAQ’s Answered!
For the last couple of months, we have been creating numerous training videos ( here’s the Zillow YouTube channel ) to help answer some of the more frequently asked questions we get from real estate and mortgage professionals. We are excited to announce that we now have a centralized place where all these videos live on Zillow.com. Please check out our new Zillow Video Training center !
Announcing the “Mortgage Center” Plug-in for WordPress
We are pleased to unveil a new mortgage center plug-in that creates a mortgage center inside your WordPress blog. This new Mortgage Center WordPress plug-in provides: real-time rates a monthly payment calculator closing cost estimates (courtesy of Closing.com ) a few educational mortgage articles links to the latest blog posts from Mortgages Unzipped , Blown Mortgage , and Mortgage Reports . Since buyers are looking for mortgage information and many agents and brokers have WordPress blogs, we thought this was the perfect plug-in for us to develop. We launched our first WordPress plug-in ( Local Market Explorer ) in August, and were thrilled with the great customization , feedback , and implementation – including early adopters Jay Thompson and Kris Berg .
Zillow Profiles: Flaunt Your Web 2.0 Self
We just added a new feature to your Zillow profile — something I’ve affectionately come to call the “Rainy TwinkBook” feature. If you’ve been keeping all those plates spinning at ActiveRain, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, or another blog, you can now link to those places from your Zillow profile. For example, here’s Spencer Rascoff’s profile — he’s our “savoir-faire is everywhere” COO — and he has added links in his profile to his ActiveRain blog, Twitte r feed and LinkedIn profile. And, some of you already have a head start. For more than 13,000 pros who have both Zillow profiles and ActiveRain accounts, we hooked up your Zillow profile to your ActiveRain blog for you automagically (many thanks to Jorgen Hahn at AR for helping us get that done). But, if we weren’t able to match you up, you can add your own links by editing the “Professional information” section of your profile ( Sara Bonert , Zillow’s Director of Broker Services, explains these steps in more detail on ActiveRain )
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