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Fellow Seattle real estate giant Redfin also beat estimates for its quarterly earnings last week as the U.S. housing market rebounds. Redfin and Zillow are riding a trend of increased home ownership driven in part by record-low mortgage rates. The U.S. Census reported last week that home ownership rates increased year-over-year from 64% to 68%, the highest level since 2008, and one of the largest increases in history.
“Zillow’s second quarter results are even better than we had hoped, and firm up our belief that powerful tailwinds in both real estate and technology are rapidly converging, with Zillow at the nexus,” Zillow Group co-founder and CEO Rich Barton said in a statement. “I believe we are at the dawn of a Great Reshuffling, as COVID and work-from-home policies are inspiring people to rethink their homes and consider moving. In addition, real estate, like other industries, is experiencing an acceleration in technology adoption, as people move their shopping habits from offline to online. We’re lucky to be in a position to serve our customers no matter how they want to move, whether through a seamless Zillow Offers transaction or in partnership with our best-in-class Premier Agents.”
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