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Zillow

Zillow is a real estate website and app where people search homes for sale or rent, compare property information, estimate values, contact agents, and use tools for buying, selling, renting, and financing housing.

Launched
Zillow says it launched in 2006 with the idea of making housing information clearer and more widely accessible.
Core database
Zillow Group's 2025 Form 10-K describes a living database of about 173 million U.S. homes.
Signature estimate
The Zestimate is Zillow's automated estimate of a home's market value; Zillow says it is not an appraisal.
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What Zillow is

Zillow is a U.S.-focused real estate website, app, and housing marketplace run by Zillow Group. On Zillow, people can browse homes for sale, rentals, recently sold properties, home-value estimates, neighborhood information, mortgage tools, and ways to connect with real estate professionals.

Why people use it

For many users, Zillow is a starting point rather than the final step in a housing decision. Buyers compare listings, photos, price changes, taxes, schools, commute context, and open-house details. Renters search apartments and houses, while owners watch nearby sales and estimate what their own property might be worth.

The Zestimate

Zillow's best-known feature is the Zestimate, an automated valuation model that uses public records, multiple listing service data, user-submitted facts, home details, location, and market trends. It can be useful for orientation, but Zillow warns that it is not an appraisal and should be supplemented with local expertise and property-specific research.

Buying, renting, selling, and financing

The site has expanded beyond search results. Zillow connects users to agents, tours, applications, rental tools, mortgage information, Zillow Home Loans, seller products, new-construction listings, and services for housing professionals. That makes the product closer to a connected housing workflow than a simple listing directory.

How the business works

Zillow earns money through several housing-related categories, including residential agent and software offerings, rentals, mortgages, and other services. Its business depends on consumer attention, listing quality, professional tools, advertising products, mortgage activity, and the health of the broader housing market.

Why it matters

Housing decisions are expensive, emotional, and heavily local. Zillow changed expectations by putting property data, photos, price histories, maps, and rough value estimates into a consumer-friendly search experience. That transparency can help people learn faster, while also shaping what buyers, renters, sellers, agents, and landlords pay attention to.

Limits and tradeoffs

Zillow can make housing feel more searchable, but it cannot remove all uncertainty from a property decision. Listings may lag, estimates can miss condition or local nuance, and online popularity can influence how homes are presented. Serious buying, selling, renting, or financing still requires current local data, inspections, professional advice, and careful review of contracts.

WHOIS domain data

Data pulled: May 19, 2026View current WHOIS record

Domain
zillow.com
IP address
3.170.19.49
Registrar
GoDaddy Corporate Domains, LLC
WHOIS server
whois.brandsight.com
Referral URL
http://gcd.com
Created
September 16, 2004
Updated
June 25, 2024
Expires
November 11, 2028
Nameservers
ns-1978.awsdns-55.co.uk (205.251.199.186); ns-188.awsdns-23.com (205.251.192.188); ns-1126.awsdns-12.org (205.251.196.102); ns-709.awsdns-24.net (205.251.194.197)
Domain status
clientTransferProhibited