SEATTLE, Sept. 20, 2018 /CNW/ -- Zillow®, the leading real
estate and rental marketplace in the U.S., announced today that
Right at Home Realty, Canada's
largest independent real estate brokerage, will send a direct
listing feed to Zillow.com.
For-sale listings from Right at Home Realty as well as other
Canadian listings will be featured on Zillow.com soon.
Zillow has relationships in the U.S. with thousands of
brokerages and real estate agents and hundreds of MLSs and is
expanding these efforts into Canada, offering partners a simple and free
way to drive global exposure to Canadian homes for sale. Zillow
also receives more than 100 million visits from non-U.S. audiences
a year, with the largest shares from Canada, U.K., India, Germany, Mexico and Chinai.
"Zillow is proud to partner with Right at Home Realty and offer
this widely respected Canadian brand free advertising for their
listings on one of the most visited real estate sites in the
world," says Errol Samuelson, Zillow
Group Chief Industry Development Officer. "Zillow has proven to be
a highly effective marketing tool for real estate professionals in
the U.S., and we're excited to expand our relationships into
Canada, increasing exposure to
Canadian homes for sale, while offering buyers a more robust home
search experience for North
America."
Every Canadian listing on Zillow will include a description of
the property, multiple photos, contact information for the listing
agent, as well as a link to the brokerage or franchise website so
buyers can easily find more information about the home or connect
with a real estate agent to guide them through the home buying and
selling process.
"Right at Home Realty is thrilled to secure a partnership with
Zillow – one that will be of great benefit to our customers and our
entire organization," says John
Lusink, President of Right at Home Realty Inc. "We have a
long history of being leaders in our field, and as the top
brokerage by sales volume in the Greater
Toronto Area for the past five consecutive years and on
behalf of our over 4,000 Realtors, we are looking forward to a
mutually beneficial relationship with Zillow."
Zillow's Canadian partners will be able to post for-sale
listings directly to the site in a bulk feed.
Zillow
Zillow® is the leading real estate and rental marketplace
dedicated to empowering consumers with data, inspiration and
knowledge around the place they call home, and connecting them with
great real estate professionals. Zillow serves the full lifecycle
of owning and living in a home: buying, selling, renting,
financing, remodeling and more. Zillow Offers provides homeowners
in some metropolitan areas with the opportunity to receive offers
to purchase their home from Zillow. When Zillow buys a home, it
will make necessary updates and list the home for resale on the
open market.
In addition to Zillow.com, Zillow operates the most popular
suite of mobile real estate apps, with more than two dozen apps
across all major platforms. Launched in 2006, Zillow is owned and
operated by Zillow Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:Z and ZG) and headquartered
in Seattle.
Zillow is a registered trademark of Zillow, Inc. Zillow Offers
is a trademark of Zillow, Inc.
i Source: Zillow Internal Usage Stats – July 2017 – July
2018.
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