Zillow.com completed the formation of a broker advisory board to provide counsel on existing Zillow services for the real estate industry, and it will also evaluate ideas for future products and services. Zillow has quickly grown its number of real estate industry partners since the launch of its listings feed program in November 2007, with nearly 3 million for-sale listings.

The members of Zillow's advisory board are 10 influential leaders in the real estate industry who are actively involved in running their respective companies: Steve Baird, the president and chief-executive-officer of Baird & Warner; Ken Baris, the president of Jordan Baris; Bob Blount, RE/MAX Allegiance's chief-executive-officer; Sherry Chris, the president and chief-executive-officer of Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate; Craig Cuyar, Realogy's senior vice president and chief-information-officer; Dan Elsea, the president of Real Estate One; Pat Lashinsky, the chief-executive and president of ZipRealty; Mike Montsko, the president of Weichert Lead Network; Harley Rouda, Jr., Real Living's chief-executive-officer; and Mark Woodroof, the managing partner for Prudential Gary Greene.

"In selecting our Broker Advisory Board, we wanted a range of different types of companies represented -- both franchise and independent, large and small, national and regional," said Jorrit Van der Meulen, Zillow's vice president of partner relations. "We asked people whom we know to be leaders in the industry, and we believe this board will help us in planning and building our products and services in a way that serves the real estate community to our full potential."

The Zillow broker advisory board will meet with Van der Meulen and Zillow's partner relations team multiple times each year, both at Zillow's headquarters in Seattle and elsewhere.