Zillow expands home buying and selling operation to Denver, marking first foray into an expensive market

Zillow Group is expanding its Zillow Offers home buying and selling program to Denver, its fourth market overall, but the first one on the higher end of the price scale.

The program, which allows homeowners to request an offer directly from Zillow, debuted in its first market of Phoenix in April. While the first few Zillow Offers markets have median home prices somewhere in the $200,000s, Denver is a much costlier city with a median home value of $414,700, according to Zillow. Denver has started to show up on lists of the most unaffordable housing markets in the country, though it is still a long way from the troubles in San Francisco and New York.