{"id":368076,"date":"2010-02-26T14:05:24","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T19:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zillow.com\/blog\/?p=18206"},"modified":"2010-02-26T14:05:24","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T19:05:24","slug":"zillow-mortgage-marketplace-review-%e2%80%9cone-cool-way-to-find-a-home-loan%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/368076","title":{"rendered":"Zillow Mortgage Marketplace Review: \u201cOne Cool Way to Find a Home Loan\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today in Inman News, real estate freelance writer <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/sbergsman\" >Steve Bergsman<\/a> wrote an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inman.com\/buyers-sellers\/columnists\/stevebergsman\/zillows-mortgage-tool-2-years-later\" >in-depth review of\u00a0Zillow Mortgage Marketplace<\/a> as the two-year anniversary of the product launch nears.<\/p>\n<p>By allowing borrowers to submit loan requests to Zillow&#8217;s network of\u00a0lenders nationwide &#8212; without having to share any personal contact information &#8212; and then\u00a0giving them a\u00a0way to &#8220;slice and dice the offers so a potential borrower can judge one mortgage offer against the other to see which loan is more appropriate and at what price,&#8221; Steve\u00a0writes that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zillow.com\/mortgage\/#%7bscid=mor-site-zblog%7d\">Zillow Mortgage Marketplace<\/a> is &#8220;one cool way to find a home loan.&#8221;\u00a0Borrowers\u00a0agree, submitting over 50,000 loan requests each month.<\/p>\n<p>The lender response has been equally enthusiastic with lenders writing\u00a0more than 10 million quotes against loans requested. These stats mean that\u00a0borrowers are getting a lot of choices, and lenders are getting a lot of borrower contacts.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zillow.com\/profile\/Whitman-Met\/\" ><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zillow.com\/profile\/Whitman-Met\/\" >Kathy Whitman<\/a>, president of Whitman Metropolitan, Inc., told Steve, &#8220;Over the past year we&#8217;ve done in excess of $100 million in volume. And that includes &#8217;second generation&#8217; where one Zillow customer referred another to Metropolitan. It&#8217;s not only been fantastic for us, but it is now one of our main sources of generating customers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As Steve writes,\u00a0the time has come to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zillow.com\/blog\/zillow-mortgage-marketplace-launches-true-cost-calculation\/2009\/07\/23\/\" >comparatively shop<\/a> for that new mortgage and Zillow Mortgage Marketplace is one cool place to do so. We think so, too.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for the great review, Steve!<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/ZillowBlog?a=4JLXiwaxTRQ:o_sZgQfZkBU:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/ZillowBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/ZillowBlog?a=4JLXiwaxTRQ:o_sZgQfZkBU:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/ZillowBlog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today in Inman News, real estate freelance writer Steve Bergsman wrote an in-depth review of\u00a0Zillow Mortgage Marketplace as the two-year anniversary of the product launch nears. By allowing borrowers to submit loan requests to Zillow&#8217;s network of\u00a0lenders nationwide &#8212; without having to share any personal contact information &#8212; and then\u00a0giving them a\u00a0way to &#8220;slice and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5055,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5055"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}