Here is a Facebook application to add price change charts to your Facebook profile or Box tab. If you are a realtor with Zillow ID, you can even co-brand these charts when you showcase them in your Facebook Profile!
Please check it out and provide your feedback.
Once in a while, Zillow API (search, comparables) does not return latitude and longitude. This will cause problems if you use these values to map the properties on Google Map or to calculate the distance.
One option is to use Google Geocoding service which does a good job in getting GPS co-ordinates for an address (street and state alone also works with this) - I use this as a backup when I run into missing lat/long once in a while calling Zillow API.
Here is a demo I created you can try using any address.
Also seen on Zillow Forum
Recently I looked at the PHP code called pillow. In fact it looks cool and seems to work.
You can also get comparable sales for a property using this library as I have shown at my demo page.
There is a small bug you need to fix before this will work.
You can see the comparables as shown in the above demo.
Using the latitude and longitude, you can map them on Google Maps - if you know how to program Google Maps - Check out my full blown demo.
Published on Zillow Forum
Just added walkscore and Yelp APIs to my existing Zillow API demo.
This now shows Walkscore for the property and the Yelp reviews for the neighborhood in addition to the following.
Published on Zillow Forum
House4Cell provides real estate agents with an innovative, affordable way to deliver instant information on their listings, while capturing valuable lead information.
Using the “text messaging” prospective buyers send a 1-word code to a special number. Within seconds, the homebuyer receives a message back (along with property photos!) with a description of the property, and the homebuyer’s phone number is captured and sent immediately to the agent for follow-up.
If more information is needed, the home buyer can receive additional information via e-mail or FAX.
House4Cell rate plans currently start at $29.99 for three listings.
CyberHomes provides two options to add home valuation details to your web site.
Co-branding is the easier option I haven’t yet tried. I will do this shortly.
Second option is using PHP as shown here. This also provides properties comparable to the one you are looking for including the price change during the previous months. You can also search for a property.
Previously I have shown how to add Zillow widgets to your web site.
In general, these widgets are provided free for you so that you can add content to your web sites without having to spend time and money to own and keep these data accurate and updated. These contents, if properly used, can attract more visitors to your site which in turn can help increase sale!
As demonstrated here, there are options to keep visitors from going to Zillow if you create those capabilities for your site. This will require advanced programming though.
I also have a similar demo for TRULIA widgets.
Check these out and let me know what you think.
Here is a School Locator for families planning to purchase homes in Arizona. Since families would like to see the school district and the schools, locator like this one is a must for any relator web site.
I created the AZ locator using the directory info available for download from Arizona Department of Education. This is stored in my database which provides the engine for the search feature. The search feature is created using PHP (one of the many programming languages avialable like Coldfusion, ASP, Java, Perl, Python).
From the search result, you can get the details of the school and the test scores by linking to Arizona Department of Education site.
I have similar locators for California and Nevada also.
Here is a Google mash up for California school locator.
Please check these out and let me know if you would like to have it added to your web site.