Zillow Scores Another $30M

Posted by Jay - The Phoenix Real Estate Guy as Real Estate, Real Estate Tech Stuff

TechCrunch says Zillow is set to announce it has secured a $30M chunk of capital, bringing the total to $87M (that's a significant chunk of change…).

(And here is the AP press release. And a typically stellar article from John Cook at SeattlePI.com)

One of the more interesting aspects of the TechCrunch article is the comments. Read them and you'll see things like:

"Seems like a prime acquisation (sic) target."

Zillow apparently aims to sell brokerages and agents "products" (quickly refuted by Drew Meyers)

"Trulia is dead"

There is a "property listing downturn" (!!)

And no one is talking about Zillow.

Seems some of the TechCrunch commenters don't quite understand Zillow…. guess they can get in line with a certain segment of the real estate population that still seem to fear Zillow or think "Zillow sucks".

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3 Responses

Comeover.com - The Blog : What is Zillow Up To?

September 20th, 2007 at 9:01 am
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[...] / Services TO Real Estate Professionals - Yes they’ve denied it but with such a captive audience and the lack of real competition I just can’t see them [...]
Eric Bramlett

September 20th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
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I read about this & it made me think of the late 90’s. Everyone bragged about how much venture capital they could raise - but no one talked about profits. Granted, Zillow is very popular, but I think that online companies that are successful do so b/c they learn to be lean. Why do you need 20 sales reps? Why do they need an additional $30m? Their market presence is huge - but they don’t do a ton of advertising other than PR & online. You would think they could get by on a lot less.
Malok

September 21st, 2007 at 12:18 pm
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I’m with Eric on this one. I’m skeptical about how the money will be spent - i.e. how much of it will get dumped into corporate expenses (cars, planes, travel, etc) compared to it being spent on real long term benefits for the company. Guess time will tell.