Zillow : March 2020 IR Roundup

Zillow Group March 2020 IR Roundup

April 3rd, 2020 in IR Roundup

In March, Zillow Group co-founder and CEO Rich Barton and CFO Allen Parker hosted a conference call to discuss the company's temporary pause in home purchases and to provide a business update in light of Coronavirus. You can find a recording of that call as well as the prepared slide deckhere.

Additionally, Svenja Gudell, Zillow Group's chief economist, released an informative research brief looking into past pandemics and their effects on the economy and housing market. You can find that researchhere.

See below for a roundup of other corporate announcements and media coverage for Zillow Group from the month of March.

In Case You Missed It
Zillow Supports Premier Agent Partners With Billing Discount
Zillow Group Pauses Home Buying in Zillow Offers in Response to COVID-19 and Market Uncertainty
Information From Past Pandemics, And What We Can Learn: A Literature Review

Zillow Group Investor Update Call - recording
Webcast recording and slide deck found here

Zillow Group in the News
Zillow Is Pausing Home Purchases. What It Means for Real Estate.[Barron's]
New-Wave Home Flippers Halt Purchases With Market in Turmoil[Bloomberg]
Zillow suspends homebuying in all 24 Zillow Offers markets[Inman News]
Zillow and Redfin are pausing home-buying - could the coronavirus pandemic make the iBuyer model more popular?[MarketWatch]
Zillow will pause home buying because of coronavirus[CNN Business]
Zillow suspends home buying due to COVID-19[Tech Crunch]
Zillow is covering 50% of Premier Agent costs for 1 month[Inman News]
Health crisis could accelerate digitization of homebuying, Zillow CEO Rich Barton says[Puget Sound Business Journal]
Real estate companies report spike of demand for virtual home showings[HousingWire]
Virtual, robot and solo home touring soar as social distancing hits the housing market amid coronavirus fear[CNBC]
With hand sanitizer and elbow bumps, real estate agents are still selling during pandemic[The Washington Post]
SARS and Spanish Flu: What we can learn from pandemics of the past[Inman News]
Why Zillow Can Survive Coronavirus Disruption[The Motley Fool]

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