Zillow.com(R) and the Seattlepi.com Launch Co-Branded Real Estate Web Site

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Tue Sep 1, 2009 8:01am EDT

SEATTLE, Sept. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Real estate Web site Zillow.com and leading
news and information destination, seattlepi.com--read by more than 3.7 million
people in the Seattle area and around the world every month--today announced
the launch of a co-branded real estate Web site, powered by Zillow. 

(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20060503/ZILLOWLOGO)

Seattlepi.com now includes Zillow's powerful search functionality, whereby
users can enter any home address, neighborhood or locality and find
Zestimate(R) home values, recently-sold homes, homes for sale, open house
listings and local market data on a co-branded version of Zillow.com. Visitors
to the co-branded site can also access all of Zillow's real estate community
content via Zillow(R) Advice, and mortgage rates and information from Zillow
Mortgage Marketplace. 

"We've created a one-stop shop for anyone interested in Seattle real estate.
PI visitors can now find Zillow's hyper-local real estate data, from the
neighborhood and ZIP-code level down to individual homes, alongside
seattlepi.com's community news and real estate reporting," said Lloyd Frink,
Zillow president. "The co-branded site has something for all Seattle-area
residents whether they're in the market to buy or sell a home, want to
refinance or are simply curious about home values and sales in their
neighborhood." 

"This partnership with Zillow significantly beefs up our online content and
builds out our community news and information portal by giving readers access
to rich real estate content and information on Seattle homes, neighborhoods
and value trends via Zillow's cutting-edge technology," said Karl Johnson,
sales manager, seattlepi.com.

The launch of a co-branded Web site with the seattlepi.com follows Zillow's
announcement in April 2009 that it would power the real estate Web sites for
members of the Zillow Newspaper Consortium. Since that announcement, Zillow
and 163 papers nationwide, including the Tampa Tribune and Richmond Times
Dispatch, have launched co-branded Web sites. In total, 180 papers will launch
co-branded Web sites with Zillow throughout 2009. 

The Zillow Newspaper Consortium is made up of 11 major publishing companies,
including Hearst Newspapers; Media General, Inc.; The E.W. Scripps Company;
MediaNews Group; Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc; Morris Communications
Company; and Philadelphia Media Holdings. 

Zillow's popular real estate content includes data and Zestimate values on
nearly 90 million U.S. homes, more than 3.5 million listed homes for sale, and
updated mortgage information and quotes from the Zillow Mortgage Marketplace.
Zillow is one of the largest and fastest-growing real estate Web sites, with
8.7 million unique users in July 2009, representing 64 percent traffic growth
year-over-year.

About Zillow.com

Zillow.com is an online real estate marketplace where homeowners, buyers,
sellers, real estate agents and mortgage professionals find and share vital
information about homes and mortgages, for free. Launched in early 2006 with
Zestimate(R) home values and data on millions of U.S. homes, Zillow has since
added homes for sale, a directory of real estate and lending professionals,
Zillow Advice and Zillow Mortgage Marketplace.  One of the most-visited U.S.
real estate Web sites, with more than eight million unique visitors per month,
Zillow's goal is to help people become smarter about real estate in every
stage of the home ownership process--home buying, selling, remodeling and
financing. The company is headquartered in Seattle and has raised $87 million
in funding.

Zillow, Zillow.com, and Zestimate are registered trademarks of Zillow, Inc.

About seattlepi.com

With more than 3.7 million readers in the Seattle area and around the world
every month, seattlepi.com is the country's first major metro daily to go
online only.  Seattlepi.com features a mix of original reporting and breaking
news, blogs by both staff and readers, columns by prominent members of the
Seattle community, links to other great journalism and Web sites, community
databases, photo galleries and more. 


SOURCE  Zillow.com

Jill Simmons of Zillow.com, +1-206-757-2794, press@zillow.com; or Paul
Luthringer of Hearst Corporation, +1-212-649-2540
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