Domania can kiss my shiny metal @ss now
September 16, 2006 1:41 AM   Subscribe

I may be behind the Web 2.0 times here, but this home valuation site's excellence blew me away. [Safari not supported, alas]
posted by Heywood Mogroot (19 comments total)

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Zillow is old (by my standards) and previewed a while ago, but YES I agree it's a good site. It just uses existing data like most, it just puts it in a nice format.
posted by sawthesign at 1:51 AM on September 16, 2006


Wow, I looked at the house where I grew up. Neat overhead map, even with the land boundaries correct... very cool.

Also eye-popping. It was something like $75K in the late 70s.... $863K today.

There's no housing bubble. Nope. Nosirree. :)
posted by Malor at 4:47 AM on September 16, 2006


Not that impressed. For my house, it lists the "Market value" as the number currently used for taxes (a low number), and they have no "Zestimate" of its actual value.

Meh.
posted by jpburns at 5:27 AM on September 16, 2006


I can see my house from here!
posted by jaded at 5:28 AM on September 16, 2006


Old news, wildly innacurate price. Best 'o the web!
posted by fixedgear at 5:44 AM on September 16, 2006


The site doesn't seem to supply any useful or accurate information at all. According to the site my house was worth a half million when I bought it for 180k

And, it says the value went down 4k in the past week

This site is taking tax records and playing number games with the info. Even the info about the house was incorrect in terms of number of rooms, size, etc.
posted by HuronBob at 5:44 AM on September 16, 2006


The prices listed in my neighborhood are higher than going rates by about %20 (or more). If you can sell it (inventory has tripled in the past 6 months, bubble go boom).
posted by stbalbach at 5:46 AM on September 16, 2006


It would be Web 2.0 if I could buy three of my neighbors houses and put a hotel here.

Go ahead. Roll the dice. Land on my street.
posted by hal9k at 5:59 AM on September 16, 2006


Here you go, hal9k.
posted by loquacious at 6:03 AM on September 16, 2006


Ack, nevermind. I didn't realize it was on haitus.
posted by loquacious at 6:03 AM on September 16, 2006


Repeat post.
posted by allkindsoftime at 6:22 AM on September 16, 2006


We're sorry. We encountered a problem performing this search. Please wait a few seconds, then refresh the page or search again.

This is all I can get the thing to give me.
posted by octothorpe at 6:27 AM on September 16, 2006


It's old so I'm not surprised that it's a double. Similar.
posted by mattbucher at 6:27 AM on September 16, 2006


It lists my house for $504K. At the peak of the bubble last year I might have been able to get $450 for it. Today, I could maybe get $425K for it, and that would be after sitting on the market for 4-6 months.

It looks cool- but their data is suspect.
posted by COD at 7:02 AM on September 16, 2006


Hmmm. It has my house on the wrong side of the street (correct address, correct year built, so it's got the "right" house). It has it listed as 1450 sq. ft (it's closer to 3,000). It has it listed with an estimated value of $575,000-$675,000 (in my dreams -- the low estimate is at least 50K too high). When I "refined" the info to reflect the correct data, it came back with an estimate of $1.9 million, about four times what it could fetch on the market.

People have been saying how great this site is, but every house that I know about and have checked out is either greatly or wildly overvalued.

What's a little strange is that the correct data on my house is available from local public records (I'm paying taxes on 3,000 sq. ft., not 1,450). So why can't Zillow even get the specs correct?
posted by young_simba at 7:24 AM on September 16, 2006


Heh, I can see my car in the driveway at my house.
posted by madamjujujive at 7:43 AM on September 16, 2006


I also get We're sorry. We encountered a problem performing this search. Please wait a few seconds, then refresh the page or search again. error message. Excellence averted. :(
posted by jca at 7:48 AM on September 16, 2006


Site bases its analysis on recent neighbor sale prices and property tax rates. It's broken by anything unusual in your local tax code, like Prop 13 or Mello-Roos here in California.

Not particularly useful. You can get a better idea by just calling up a local RE agent.
posted by ikkyu2 at 8:19 AM on September 16, 2006


The house values I looked up were off by as much as 50% by my estimation. Plus Money magazine recently did a comparison of several of these services, and Zillow had the lowest accuracy (I think Domania had the highest, IIRC.) So Zillow gets points for being cool but loses them for actual information value.
posted by pmurray63 at 8:22 AM on September 16, 2006


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