Did I read this right?? Greg Swann over at the BloodhoundBlog has a post titled "DEFENDING ZILLOW.COM"?!? Have the cows come home? Is hell freezing over?? Greg has not been shy about saying what he thinks of Zillow's Automated Valuation Method (AVM) -- and I'm not about to spend an hour linking to every one of his Zillowish posts. Here is the "main attraction" For more, just read his blog, you should be subscribed to it anyway, it's brilliant. What would compel Greg to defend … [Read more...]
Zillow Two Point Oh
It's already all over the real estate blog world, but Zillow has released their latest update. Here's an email I received from Drew Meyers from Zillow.com (me and a zillowan other people, I'm sure) I'm guessing you might have already heard, but I thought I'd mail you anyway regarding the new version of Zillow that we shipped last night, which includes the ability for homeowners to update and add information about their home, such as a recent remodel or the existence of a waterfront view. … [Read more...]
Zillow’s Phoenix Market Report
I never jumped on the Zillow posting bandwagon. For those not familiar with it, Zillow.com is a site that estimates the value of property using a bunch of publically available data and some proprietary algorithms to come up with approximate valuations. Sometimes it does OK, sometimes not. But it's getting better. Zillow scares the crap out of some real estate agents. I don't understand why. I think they are afraid that Zillow is going to replace them. That's absurd. Here's a couple of … [Read more...]
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