Zillow Group company history timeline

2006

February 2006: Zillow launches its site, attracting more than 1 million visitors in its first three days.

In 2006, the “Z house” symbol first popped up on the Zillow logo.

Towards the end of 2006, Zillow introduced features that allowed users to put homes on sale online and set a price and a real estate online encyclopedia.

Zillow was founded in 2006 by ex-Microsoft Executives Lloyd Frink Rich Barton.

2008

The Zillow Mortgage Marketplace was launched in 2008.

2009

In April 2009, the company announced a collaboration to lease its real estate/property search engine to websites of over 180 US newspapers as part of a corporation known as Zillow Newspaper Consortium.

In 2009, a partnership was announced by Zillow as a part of Zillow Newspaper Consortium in which the company lends its real estate search engines to the websites of the leading newspapers in the United States.

The Zillow iPhone app was launched in 2009.

2010

The Zillow iPad app was launched in 2010.

In 2010, Spencer Rascoff was named CEO of the company.

2011

Zillow acquired Postlets in April 2011.

The company started trading on the NASDAQ Stock Market in July of 2011.

Zillow bought Diverse Solutions in November 2011 for $7.8 million.

To this effect, the brand launched an exclusive partnership with Yahoo! Real Estate in 2011.

2013

Zillow took over StreetEasy in a $50 million deal in August 2013.

Towards the end of 2013, Zillow started running AOL Real Estate.

2014

In May 2014, the company shattered all sorts of records when people viewed more than 480 million homes on its mobile app.

In July 2014, Zillow took over Retsly—a Canada-based startup company that enables developers to get real estate data from various listing services.

Also, in July 2014, Zillow acquired Trulia in a $3.5 billion deal.

2015

April 2015: Zillow cancels agreement with Listhub, which had been feeding listings to their site.

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