interesting Real Estate value search map

[Ken Sp.]

http://zillow.com/
Have fun
It needs a plug in for AddressBook app :-)

[Don C]

NPR did a story on this earlier this week.

Letters read online yesterday said that some of the information is years old. One person said that the house they sold two years ago doesn't even show up as existing.

YMMV

[SteveJobs]

Google maps should add a topographic-natured, real estate value map. The higher the mountain, the more the real estate is per square foot.

[shadow]

Interesting ... but useless.

The house values it listed for my area were half what they actually are. While I think were a little overvalued (5 - 15%), 50% is ridiculous.

I can getter much better information by going directly to the county website and gather recent home sale data from there.

- Shadow

[SteveJobs]

Some of ours are listed at $77,000. Probably half of what they'd sell for today if not 1/3.

[Ken Sp.]

Very accurate in the areas I checked her in Sacramento
so I guess YMMV

[Harry in MI]

I just get a "Safari not supported yet, please use Firefox" so I'm not too impressed.

[(vikm)]

Same here, Harry.

[Racer X]

Just heard about it at the bar last night, but they have some info way wrong on my house, so the valuation is suspect.

[rgG]

Ours is waaaayyyyy off. But, I think I know why. It looks like they used the county's numbers, but the county only uses a percent of the fair market value, something like 40%, to base your taxes on. This is the number that the website picked up. So if you are looking at property around Atlanta you will need to do some major multiplication to get anywhere close to the real value. This may be the case in other areas, too.