I been bloggin here about Zilpy for the past 4 month, not doing it on regular basis due to a lot of other commitments. I have been pushing my zilpy team to help me out with some blogging to spread word about our service. Now that we have released our widgets, that can be customized to any city, neighborhood, state or any level you desire to get statistics, we finally decided to put our own blog on line. 

http://www.zilpyblog.com/  and our Blog was born.

 There are a lot of blogs about real estate for sale and It was about time somebody started writing about rental market. We are always looking for your feedback about our articles as well as what would you like to hear next. 

Have something to say about rental market? want to write and article? Looking for rental stats for your own city? want to put local widget on your site? Looking for a widget you cant create with Zilpy right now? Please reach out to me and we will make it happen.

Here is a sneak peek on the upcoming posts:

- How did James and Mike, co-eds, save a weekend looking for an affordable place to rent for the next year

- Rental market is melting, should I rent or buy? See top 10 metro rent vs. buy special report comparing rent and sale numbers

Please don’t forget to subscribe to our blog to get notified of new posts.

 

 

 

Today Zilpy released a new Tool, RENTAL MARKET WIDGET BUILDER!!! Now you can build your own custom widget of the rental market or you can select the most expensive or least expensive metropolitan area and put it on your site. It is really easy to create. Here are some examples of what you can do. Here is the direct link http://www.zilpy.com/widgets

 

Have you heard of postlets, it is a one stop shop to post your listing for rent or for Sale.

This is an excellent  site that allows you to post your listing for rent or for sale, upload your pictures and in an instante your listing goes to several very visited sites and has a very nice presentation.

 

Give it a try  

 http://www.postlets.com

 

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 04/0408/2008

 

Looking to rent or to buy a house? Now you can do both on Zilpy.com

 

San Francisco, CA April 8th, 2008 -- Today Zilpy, a leader in online rental market information, and Trulia, a leader in residential real estate search,  announced a partnership to integrate Trulia's Publisher Platform into Zilpy’s rent heatmaps.

 

“This partnership gives our audience the ability to see houses available for sale and for rent in one place. Zilpy is now able to provide an integrated shopping experience to better address the needs of the Investor community and also consumers who are exploring Rent vs. Buy options” says Yelena Drabkin.

 

“We’re very excited by the Zilpy implementation of the Trulia Publisher Platform,” said Rob Cross, Director of Distribution for Trulia.  “The Trulia platform gives publishers a great new way to deliver real estate search directly from their websites and Zilpy provides a valuable resource for people looking to compare rentals and purchases.”

 

Under the partnership, Zilpy rent heat map pages now include a “For sale” feature that quickly exposes the market inventory on Trulia for any location in the United States.  Users can narrow their search from the city location down to neighborhoods and even specific zip codes.

 

 

 

For example, if you are looking at rental heat maps for 3 bedroom single family homes on Zilpy, you are one click away from seeing real estate  for sale in same area.

 

“We look forward into adding more value to the Zilpy.com service via our partnership with Trulia” says Drabkin

 

About Zilpy.com:

Zilpy.com is a free online rental market facts and analysis service dedicated to help renters and investors make better rental and investment decisions. Whether looking for a good and affordable area to rent, fair rental market value for a specific property, or potential investment properties, Zilpy.com helps renters, landlords and investors understand real rental market trends in specific areas of interest from neighborhood to city or state level.

 

 

 

 

Contact:

Mrs. Yelena Drabkin, VP of Marketing

Zilpy LLC

http://www.zilpy.com/

 

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We are pleased to announce that realeased new features on our site. We receive a lot of feedback from our users and working very hard to incorporate it.

Now users have an ability to

• see historical listings vs active listings 
• links back to some of our data sources and working to add links for all of the listings
• http://www.zilpy.com/US/California/San_Francisco_County/San_Francisco/Mission/Rentals/
  

Yeeeee!

We are very excited to announce our relationship with Trulia and today Trulia announced in their blog that Zilpy won the "Most Creative Integration" 

http://www.truliablog.com/?p=354

Now Zilpy's user's can not only look up rental stats but also  look for houses for sale.

http://www.zilpy.com/US/California/San_Francisco_County/San_Francisco/

 

 

In today’s world, everywhere you go you see people on their blackberries, and not using it only as a phone, but the thing that runs their lives. We don’t leave the house without our blackberries, can you imagine going on vacation and not having it…..you would feel so left out…..

I was driving around my neighborhood and as I see signs FOR RENT I wonder, what would the ZILPY RENT be….that’s when it came to me it would be great to put Zilpy on mobile and the next thing I know our tech team made it happen and  www.zilpy.mobi was born.

 

Next time you are driving around and looking for that next place to rent or make it your investment property, give www.zilpy.mobi a try and of course let us know what you think!

 

 

As buzz about zilpy is growing, we are talking to a lot of reporters from various parts of USA.

http://www.squidoo.com/zilpy

http://www.realestateinfostl.com/blogs/karen_goodman/archive/2008/02/11/find-the-most-wealthy-and-poverty-stricken-parts-of-town-in-any-city.aspx

Yesterday we had an interview, live interview with Real Estate Radio.

www.realestateradiousa.com

If you haven't heard of them i suggest you check them out. The are on LIVE WEEKDAYS 4:00PM-6:00PM. EST

They are fairly new, but very friendly and knowledgeable investors based in Florida:-) I been listening to them myself for few weeks here.  They also have a blog http://www.realestateradiousa.com/blog/

While you are on their blog listen to my first ever interview about ZILPY :-) 

http://www.realestateradiousa.com/blog/2008/02/21/real-estate-radio-usa-episode-64/ 

 

Past weeks were busy weeks for us at ZILPY. With our launch we got a lot of great media exposure and a lot of feedback from users, which we are very grateful for. We have been working hard on incorporating user’s feedback as well as integrating Zillow’s neighborhood API.  Now when you come to ZILPY and look up San Francisco we you will see how it is nicely broken down on neighborhoods and you can take if from there and drill down to the next level.

In summary what out ZILPY team was able to accomplish for the past few weeks:

- We added Neighborhood support

- Now you can see the top 100 Rentals for any City, Zip or Neighborhood. Click in the map at the bottom of the label or on the rental count in the table underneath the map

- Opened up the API to get property Rent estimates (in beta)

- Speed and minor usability improvements

Since ZILPY launched everybody has questions about who we are? Who is behind ZILPY.

Let me just say that we are not professional real estate brokers nor agents. However, we have an advisory board that consists from real estate professional, lawyers and entrepreneurs.  Our advisory board was very involved as we were developing algorithms for calculating CMA’s for our site as well as advising us on what data is more valuable to the Investors, Renters and Landlords.  

We are based out of Mountain View, Ca. All three con-founders have technology backgrounds. Bogdan holds Bachelor’s Degree and MBA in Management & Information Systems.

Gene holds a Computer Science degree from University of Wisconsin.

Yelena have graduated from the same school with Management Information Systems degree and working for Management Consulting Company.

We are all residential real estate investors and have moved a lot around the United Stats in the past years. Since our audiences are Investors, Renters and Landlords we very well understand all the blocks on the road whether you are looking for an investment property, looking to rent your property out or moving to a new place and looking for a place and want to know the rent prices around the area.

Our goal is to provide accurate data and become comprehensive analytical tool for rental market.  So far we have over a million listings and working on adding more. We are working hard to finalize our contracts with the data sources we are using and planning to display data sources for all of our data.  

Another question we get a lot is why people should pick us over other available sites.

1)We are the only site in the rental market that provides free historical data about rentals

2) Rent heat maps

3) Sqft price

4) Advanced search functionality

5) Property details  when people search by the exact address

6) Demographics information including crime rates.

We are planning to be in beta version for sometime. We are looking to invite more real estate professionals to our advisory board to guide us in development of new tools and features.

Our team is working very hard on new features.