Big Changes at Zillow
Real Estate site Zillow has made some big changes to their service recently (official Zillow release and TechCrunch response). The most exciting part of the announcement for us is that they now allow listing submission via feeds. This means that our system will be able to automatically upload your listing to Zillow along with the other vendors we support for automatic listing promotion.
Even better, they are working towards a common listing format between many of the real estate aggregation services. This is great news for us as the current system is a mess. We currently export a different feed for each vendor we post listings to, making maintenance more difficult than it needs to be. By creating a common format, it also lowers the bar for new aggregators to enter the market and quickly propagate their sites with lots of listings.
All around, great news. Way to go Zillow!