Five Reasons Why Asking Zillow What Your House is Worth is a Bad Idea
Key takeaways Zillow’s Zestimate is an algorithmic guess, not a true valuation—because it can’t fully account for the real factors that drive price (condition, upgrades,…
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Sell for 21.3% over the Zillow Zestimate
a blog post last week, I highlighted the San Jose Mercury News article about the 17.3% spike in Bay Area home prices in March. That's an…
Coming Soon Listings now on MLS
Most consumers probably are not aware of this, but our local MLS just went through a fairly large upgrade. The implementation left a lot to…
[M04/S06] Online Real Estate Price Evaluations
In the quest to come up with an easy and instant home price estimate, plenty of sellers visit web sites for online real estate price…
Zillow’s Study on Off-Market Home Sales: Selling on the MLS…Nets Sellers Less Cash at Closing?!
you hear? Zillow recently released a study that claims selling your home without using the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) will lose you money compared to…
Zillow Zestimate: How I Broke the Zillow Home Value Estimator
Key takeaways Zillow’s Zestimate is a useful starting point, but it’s not a true pricing tool—because it can’t reliably account for micro-location, condition, layout, upgrades,…
Can You Trust the Zillow Zestimate?
I’ve been getting asked a lot about the Zillow Zestimate lately. Here are a few of my thoughts.As you may or may not know, the…
The Dirty Truth about Home Price Valuations
The Internet is swimming in offers for free, instant home price valuations. They're all over Google search results, Facebook, Craigslist, and just about every Realtor…
Zillow Giveth, Zillow Taketh Away
While searching for a blog topic, two reports spanning the good/bad news spectrum caught my eye, because Zillow.com had a hand in both.To check out…