Seattle-based real estate website, Zillow, said today that it has partnered with Chicago-based Apartments.com. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but through the partnership Apartments.com’s national database of some 90,000 managed apartment rental listings will be syndicated on Zillow.com, bringing the total number of listings for single-family homes and apartments on the site to 150,000. Zillow.com provides real estate information for homeowners, buyers, sellers, renters, agents, and mortgage professionals. The website receives 12 million visitors a month, and has consistently topped Seattle2.0’s monthly Web traffic rankings for local startups.
Author: Thea Chard
Before joining Xconomy, Thea spent a year working as the editor of another startup, the hyperlocal Seattle neighborhood news site QueenAnneView.com. She holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Southern California, where she double-majored in print journalism and creative writing. While in college, Thea spent a semester studying in London and writing for the London bureau of the Los Angeles Times. Indulging in her passion for feature writing, she has covered a variety of topics ranging from the arts, to media, clean technology and breaking news. Before moving back to Seattle, Thea worked in new media development on two business radio shows, "Marketplace" and "Marketplace Money" by American Public Media. Her clips have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Santa Monica Daily Press, Seattle magazine and her college paper, the Daily Trojan. Thea is a native Seattleite who grew up in Magnolia, and now lives in Queen Anne.
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