Comments on: How much is your house worth? Zillow knows

Start-up provides valuations, purchase prices, comparable data, tools for adjusting values based on improvements.

[nicmart]

Accuracy problem

They cover themselves by saying that their data are incomplete, but
in the case of my house their valuation is close to one-quarter of
the actual market value of the house -- and in an urban market
that changes little from year to year. The comparison is an insult to
Kelly.

[baswwe]

duhh

Homeowners such as yourself often have unrealistic expectations.

Get with reality.

[the Otter]

Doesn?t support standard browsers.

I clicked the link in Safari 2.0.3 and was sent to a page that says
?We do not support the Safari browser yet.? Then I open the site in
the least standards-compliant browser even conceived?Microsoft
Internet Explorer?and it opens right up. How can they support a
sloppy browser that was discontinued three years ago, but not the
current, standards-compliant choice of millions?

Bad show, guys. Bad show.

[nicmart]

Firefox

The site does say that it works with Firefox, which I found that it
did. More often than not the problem is Apple's rather than webs
site developers. Safari may be the least standards-compliant
browser offered by a major company.

[lonewolfoolt]

Other sites of note..

Some other good real estate sites not listed are http://SearchHomesUSA.com for home searching and http://CloseRealty.com for Real Estate Agents. Both are pretty nice with a much better navigational system.

[Bill24851]

RE: Other sites

Yeah, there's also http://www.rapidestimate.com/, which is pretty good.

[onco199]

Way off...

Tried our house value and it was pretty close, but a house just sold across the street from us for $200k more than they quoted, and they had the right info on sq. footage, etc. Weird. Plus, the values of my neighbors homes were below market. We recently bought our home and it was re-assessed by the city. So I suspect they're using values from public records that would be less accurate on less recent sales... esp. in faster moving markets.

[KsprayDad]

No value

for White House 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW Washington, DC 20500

Doh!

[baggyguy1218]

Is this a joke?

I checked a few homes that I actually know the value of like my parents, my girlfriends dads place...not even close. It has my parents house as a 1800 sqf condo. its 2200 spf townhouse. the value was kinda close. my girlfriends dads place aparently jumped 300% then dropped 250% in 6 months. I hope it becoes more consistant, it could actually be a good price barameter for an area. Good luck Zillion or zillimon, whatever...and good day.

[andregangy]

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[Tinkerbell46]

Zillow.com

I hope that people are not taking this site seriously as their estimates are way off base. They compare homes from one side of the freeway in our area to the other when the other side is not such a good area, therefore de-valueing our property. I have emailed them to correct this error as our property was recently appraised for over $500,000. They are way off mark and need to get their act together as they will be doing more damage than good.

[Tinkerbell46]

Zillow.com is way off base in lots of area

They appear to be way off base if you are the original owner of the home. We made extensive improvements to our home and our neighbor who has done nothing, has a smaller lot but is the second owner, has his home valued a lot higher. How do you figure? We both have the same model and even initially, we had all the upgrades that this other house didn't have.

[tatersmaemae]

zillow.com is a rip-off

A few weeks ago, I requested a property value report and a info report on a person from zillow.com. My home is 3 years old, over 2000 sq ft, has 3 bd and 2 ba on an acre of land in a nice neighborhood. According to zillow.com, my home is worth $920! Gee, I guess I paid too much when I bought it! The info on the person was just as bad. Even with the person's ss#, full name and current address, they still gave me a report on the wrong person, and even if they had got it correct, they did not provide any of the info I paid for. Everything they said they would provide was at additonal costs. I requested a refund, but have yet to recieve a reply. This site is a total rip-off!