Listen to Zillow – Pay Little Attention to the Zestimate

I’ve written this for years. And Jay at Zillow has written it in a way that hopefully now consumers will lend credence to my words: (bolding mine)

But (a Zestimate is) not accurate enough to determine what price to set for a home about to go on the market, or what price to offer on a home. The Zestimate isn’t intended to be used like that.

But – they used to aspire to consumers using the zestimate to negotiate and thankfully and rightly removed that language.

One day though, Zillow might be right(er).

Zillow is awfully popular though.

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So, thanks Jay for the post. 🙂

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3 Comments

  1. Sebastien Cloutier October 2, 2013 at 19:28

    Really true! There are many things to consider when looking for the market value of a house! The evaluation is just one of them! Great post.

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  2. Simon Campbell October 3, 2013 at 11:44

    Wow, finally the site administrators are stating for the record that this is a “guestimate” of property value. So many consumers are taking that figure as gospel – right up their with a professional property appraisal. The real question is whether site visitors will listen to this “revelation of truth.”

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