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Zillow Group, Inc. (ZG) Q2 2017 Earnings Conference Call August 08, 2017 17:00 P.M. ET Executives RJ Jones – VP, Investor Relations Spencer Rascoff – CEO Kathleen Philips – CFO Analysts Ronald Josey - JMP Securities Mark Mahaney - RBC Capital Markets Unidentified Analyst - Sli.do © Provided by Seeking Alpha Earnings Call Transcripts Michael Graham - Canaccord Genuity Christian Rice - Needham & Company Hayden Blair - Stephens Inc. Brian Nowak - Morgan Stanley Mark May - Citigroup Lloyd Walmsley - Deutsche Bank Bradley Erickson - KeyBanc Capital Markets Shyam Patil - Susquehanna Financial Group Heath Terry - Goldman Sachs Presentation Operator Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Zillow Group's Second Quarter 2017 Earnings Call . At this time all participants are in a listen-only mode. Later we will conduct a question-and-answer session and instructions will be given at that time. [Operator Instructions]. As a reminder, today's call is being recorded. I wou...

Name: Eva, Jack, their 3 year old Eleanor and Robin Williamson the cat Location: Dorchester — Boston, Massachusetts The basics: Four years, owned 1,100 square feet Eva and Jack's space is like a cozy and welcoming art gallery . After bouncing back from a fire that destroyed most of their belongings, they've created a home that feels stylish and exceedingly personal. Tell us a little (or a lot) about your home and the people who live there: I live in our 1904 first floor condo with my husband, artist Jack Thrombly , and our nearly-three-year-old, Eleanor. I should note that we have an agoraphobic cat named Robin Williamson , though she most frequently enjoys the space underneath the furniture, and rather less of the limelight. We live on the first floor of a tripple-decker in the Pope's Hill region of Dorchester in Boston. Jack and I have always been treasure hunters in thrift and bookstores (and the odd side-of-the-road find), and have filled our home with beautiful f...

Occasionally I have to put off paying a bill, but I've never had trouble buying food for my family. On a recent Saturday afternoon , I met a lot of Anchorage neighbors who do. The Anchorage East Rotary Club invited me to its  Mobile Food Pantry giveaway . I thought I'd be writing about the Rotarians. I knew many of the two dozen business people and retirees behind the tables, friends I've often met at functions and meetings. I guess they're just like me. I thought the people on the other side of the tables with shopping bags and luggage carts would be the destitute poor or victims of temporary emergencies. I discovered they were just like me, too. A shocking number of the Alaskans who work full-time jobs cannot afford food and routinely humble themselves at these giveaways of browning grocery store produce and baked goods on the verge of staleness, despite putting in many hours on the job. I met a young Alaska Native man who loads cargo on the ramp...

The long retail spine of Sydney Road, Brunswick, just north of Melbourne's CBD, was once a prosperous trading outpost on the way to the goldfields. These days it's a bohemian mix of variety stores, op shops, halal butchers and Lebanese bakeries. Take a side street to the west, however, and a different picture emerges. Sandwiched between Sydney Road and the Upfield train line is an area undergoing rapid and widespread transformation. Light industry is fast being replaced by mid- rise apartment buildings , their inhabitants attracted by the short commute into town and cheaper prices than in the city's south-east. The quality of these units is, on the whole, depressingly bad; think poor ventilation and bedrooms that "borrow" natural light (a weasel word for being dark and windowless). The occasional jazzy façade tries feebly to make up for otherwise cheap construction amid a chorus of greys. At ground level, carpark roller doors alternate with mean pocket garden...

The long retail spine of Sydney Road, Brunswick, just north of Melbourne's CBD, was once a prosperous trading outpost on the way to the goldfields. These days it's a bohemian mix of variety stores, op shops, halal butchers and Lebanese bakeries. Take a side street to the west, however, and a different picture emerges. Sandwiched between Sydney Road and the Upfield train line is an area undergoing rapid and widespread transformation. Light industry is fast being replaced by mid- rise apartment buildings , their inhabitants attracted by the short commute into town and cheaper prices than in the city's south-east. The quality of these units is, on the whole, depressingly bad; think poor ventilation and bedrooms that "borrow" natural light (a weasel word for being dark and windowless). The occasional jazzy façade tries feebly to make up for otherwise cheap construction amid a chorus of greys. At ground level, carpark roller doors alternate with mean pocket garden...