Zillow Launches Agent Finder, New Way for Home Shoppers to Find Most Active, Reputable Agents in Their Desired Neighborhood

Comprehensive search tool helps buyers and sellers choose an agent based on sales and listing activity, area of expertise and reputation

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Mar 24, 2015, 08:00 ET

SEATTLE, March 24, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Zillow® announces the launch of Agent Finder, a new way for home buyers and sellers to search for, and find, a real estate agent based on their local expertise and reputation.

Now, when a home shopper uses Zillow to search for an agent in a specific city or neighborhood, the most active agents, based on past sales, current listings and reviews over the past 12 months, will top the search results. Shoppers can then personalize their searches based on the criteria that matters to them, including price point, property type, service needed (buying agent or selling agent), specialties such as relocation or short sale, and languages spoken.

"Millions of home shoppers visit Zillow every month, and many of them have not yet found a real estate agent to help them buy or sell their home," said Amy Bohutinsky, Zillow chief marketing officer. "Being able to evaluate an agent based on his or her local reputation, experience in a given area, as well as individual expertise, is incredibly useful for buyers and sellers. Having access to this information will help buyers and sellers find the right person to guide them through what is arguably one of the biggest financial and emotional decisions in their lifetimes."

Zillow first published agent reviews by former clients in 2010. To date, nearly a million reviews of real estate agents can be found on Zillow. Agent Finder is another step toward consumer empowerment, giving people easy access to information to help them make smarter real estate decisions.

Agent Finder enables agents to highlight their areas of expertise and local knowledge on their free Zillow profile. Agents can update their Zillow profile with skills, past sales, active listings and client reviews to help ensure they are connecting with the millions of home buyers and sellers who visit Zillow every month.

"Every day, agents tell us how important online reviews are to their marketing efforts, and how increasing their online presence has resulted in more business," said Jay Thompson, Zillow's director of industry outreach. "We're thrilled to give agents another way to highlight their areas of expertise and local knowledge to connect with home shoppers on Zillow."

Agent Finder is now available at Zillow.com/agent-finder/.

About 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 the best local professionals who can help. Zillow serves the full lifecycle of owning and living in a home: buying, selling, renting, financing, remodeling and more. 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 (NASDAQ:Z), and headquartered in Seattle.

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