Zillow acquires HotPads, expanding the size of its growing rental audience and extending the reach of its marketing tools and productivity solutions for rental professionals. Zillow becomes a public company, trading on NASDAQ under the ticker symbol “Z.” Zillow launches agent ratings and reviews, giving home buyers and sellers the ability to search for and find local real estate agents based on reviews from former clients. Zillow’s first CEO, Rich Barton, becomes executive chairman of the board, and Spencer Rascoff becomes CEO of Zillow. Zillow launches the iPad app, with an innovative photo-driven home shopping experience built specifically for the iPad's multi-touch user interface. Buyers, sellers and renters can now search both rental homes and homes for sale on Zillow. Zillow adds rental listings to its database, which now includes more than 90 million homes. Zillow launches the Zillow iPhone app with dynamic map technologies, bringing data on 88 million homes directly into users’ hands. Zillow launches Mortgage Marketplace, a free and transparent marketplace where borrowers can request anonymous and hassle-free mortgage loan quotes from lenders directly through Zillow.Īs mortgage rates reach historic lows, Zillow's Mortgage Marketplace takes off, receiving more than 700,000 loan information requests within three months. Zillow launches, attracting more than one million visitors within the first three days, ultimately overloading the servers and crashing the website. Rich Barton and Lloyd Frink begin assembling a team to revolutionize the way people search and shop for homes.
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