Evaluating Market Reaction to a New Bay Area Real Estate Listing
you list a home on the real estate market, especially in a competitive region like the Bay Area and Silicon Valley, evaluating how the market…
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Sell for 21.3% over the Zillow Zestimate
In ablog 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…
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…
Santa Cruz July 2008 median home price: $607,500
If there is an even number of homes sold, you take the two in the middle, you find the difference in prices, and all that…
Zillow Zestimate: How I Broke the Zillow Home Value Estimator
Over the years of writing on my blog, I've had a lot to say about the Zillow Zestimate, especially as it relates to Bay Area…
Can You Trust the Zillow Zestimate?
Ive 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…
The Trouble with Zillow
Sure, that's "just" 10% but is just 10% of the sale price - that $50,000, though, is likely to represent, perhaps, 100% of the actual…