More than 6,500 Neighborhood Pages among numerous new features adding a personalized and local twist to online real estate conversations

Real estate Web site Zillow.com(R) added a number of new community features, opening up the site even further to user contributions. Chief among these additions are individual neighborhood pages in more than 130 U.S. cities (more than 6,500 neighborhoods in all). The pages are seeded with rich local demographic and real estate information, but are built for communities and neighbors to make their own. Anyone within a community has the ability to add photos, events, local news, engage in discussions and ask or answer questions about neighborhood real estate.

"Adding the ability for neighbors to meet, share information and learn about their local neighborhood is a natural next step for Zillow. We started with individual Web pages and Home Q&A for more than 70 million homes, and today we're bringing the conversation out to the neighborhood level," said Lloyd Frink, Zillow president. "In the offline world, conversations happen all the time around homes, neighborhoods and communities. With these additions, we're adding the data, tools and a platform for these conversations to thrive online -- and help people become smarter about real estate, for free, in the process."

Neighborhoods are accessed from any of the 70 million Home Details pages within Zillow, or via the "local real estate" link at the bottom of every Zillow page.

In addition to Neighborhood Pages, Zillow added a number of other ways for the Zillow community to find and share vital information about real estate and homes:

  -- Zillow(R) Discussions -- a forum-type feature providing Zillow
     community members a place to talk about real estate-related topics on a
     national level.  This is a place for broader topics such as real estate
     investing, hiring an agent or discussing the best way to stage a home.
  -- Polls -- this fun addition gives any Zillow user the opportunity to
     create a survey on any topic and post it at the national or ZIP code
     level.  The Zillow community can vote and see immediate results --
     whether the question focuses on the best restaurant in a certain
     neighborhood, or speculates what the national average home price will
     be in 2012. These polls show up on neighborhood pages, city pages and
     all discussion pages throughout the site.

About Zillow.com(R)

Zillow.com(R) is an online real estate community where homeowners, buyers, sellers, and real estate agents and professionals can find and share vital information about homes, for free.

Source: Zillow.com

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