TEXT-EXTRACT 2 filename2.txt September 11, 2019 Jennifer Rock Chief Accounting Officer Zillow Group, Inc. 1301 Second Avenue Floor 31 Seattle, WA 98101 Re: Zillow Group, Inc. Form 10-K for the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2018 Filed February 21, 2019 Form 8-K furnished August 7, 2019 File No. 001-36853 Dear Ms. Rock: We have reviewed your August 7 and September 9, 2019 responses to our comment letter and have the following comments. In some of our comments, we may ask you to provide us with information so we may better understand your disclosure. Please respond to these comments within ten business days by providing the requested information or advise us as soon as possible when you will respond. If you do not believe our comments apply to your facts and circumstances, please tell us why in your response. After reviewing your response to these comments, we may have additional comments. Unless we note otherwise, our references to prior comments are to comments in our July 31, 2019 letter. Form 8-K Furnished August 7, 2019 Exhibit 99.2 Non-GAAP Revenue on Homes Sold After Interest Expense 1. Please consider revising the name of your non-GAAP measure, Return on Homes Sold After Interest, to indicate that the measure represents the average return per home sold during the period. Jennifer Rock FirstName LastNameJennifer Rock Zillow Group, Inc. Comapany 11, 2019 September NameZillow Group, Inc. Page 2 September 11, 2019 Page 2 FirstName LastName 2. Please tell us why you believe Loss Before Income Taxes is the most directly comparable GAAP measure to Return on Homes Sold After Interest given the nature of the adjustments presented in the non-GAAP reconciliation. Also, tell us if you consider this measure to be more akin to a measure of gross profit or loss or net profit or loss before taxes, regardless of the fact that you do not present such measures on the face of your consolidated statement of operations. 3. In your response letter dated September 9, 2019, you state that the adjustment for indirect expenses included in Cost of Revenue includes hosting-related costs allocated to the Homes segment for the operation of your website. As these costs are classified as costs of revenue and appear to directly relate to reselling homes, please explain further why they are not contemplated in the Return on Homes Sold measure. We note from your response letter dated August 7, 2019 that the measure is "intended to convey the unit level economics of homes sold during the period by presenting the revenue and associated expenses directly attributed to an individual home sold, both in total and on a per home basis." 4. We note that you generate revenue in the Homes segment by purchasing and reselling homes on the open market. During the holding period after renovation, you incur certain costs such as homeowners association dues, property taxes, and utilities, and you classify these as sales and marketing costs. However, these costs appear to relate directly to the generation of revenue. As such, please tell us in more detail how you determined to classify these costs as sales and marketing costs and whether you considered classifying them as costs of revenue and/or capitalizing them as inventory costs. We refer you to Rule 5-03(b)(2) of Regulation S-X. You may contact Brittany Ebbertt, Senior Staff Accountant, at 202-551-3572 or Melissa Kindelan, Senior Staff Accountant, at 202-551-3564 with any questions. Sincerely, Division of Corporation Finance Office of Information Technologies and Services