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re: How can Zillow be so wrong?

Posted on 6/14/21 at 7:54 am to
Posted by tLSU
Member since Oct 2007
8623 posts
Posted on 6/14/21 at 7:54 am to
It's just comps. They've never been in your home. They didn't send an assessor or realtor. The question is how you expect it to be right.
Posted by ItNeverRains
37069
Member since Oct 2007
25459 posts
Posted on 6/14/21 at 8:08 am to
You mean an algorithm created in San Francisco monitored in India didn’t hit the mark on your home is Bawcomville?
Posted by sweetwaterbilly
Member since Mar 2017
19351 posts
Posted on 6/14/21 at 8:09 am to
In general, Zillow is pretty terrible and slow to update. When I was looking for a house Zillow was always at least a week behind updating houses that were under contract, etc.
Posted by baldona
Florida
Member since Feb 2016
20449 posts
Posted on 6/14/21 at 8:23 am to
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In general, Zillow is pretty terrible and slow to update. When I was looking for a house Zillow was always at least a week behind updating houses that were under contract, etc.


Lol, duh….to my knowledge Zillow doesn’t monitor the mls it pulls the information from property appraisers on closings. The property appraisers take a month or more often to update. So of course Zillow is behind.

Zillow simply uses comparable sales with an algorithm to compute your value. It is what it is, expecting it to be some on site perfect realtor is absurd. Use the information for what it is.
This post was edited on 6/14/21 at 8:23 am
Posted by MMauler
Member since Jun 2013
19216 posts
Posted on 6/14/21 at 8:23 am to
Since we're on the subject.....

Perhaps one of the funniest bits SNL has done in years.....


Zillow..........
Posted by TheHarahanian
Actually not Harahan as of 6/2023
Member since May 2017
19520 posts
Posted on 6/14/21 at 8:24 am to

I used 3 different sites to estimate value on a rental property about 3 years ago.

None of them were accurate, and they went from slightly low to very high, so even the average of their values wasn’t accurate.

Not a good estimation tool.
Posted by concrete_tiger
Member since May 2020
5998 posts
Posted on 6/14/21 at 9:25 am to
I live in a city that was carved out of another city. There are 2 listings for our house, one in the old city and one in the current. There is a $90,000 variance between the 2 listings for the same house.

Same address. Same house. Same comps. Same zip code. Literally the only thing that is different is the city name... and they have even updated that now so the same city name resolves on both pages! lol
Posted by biglego
Ask your mom where I been
Member since Nov 2007
76309 posts
Posted on 6/14/21 at 9:27 am to
Posted by SDVTiger
Cabo San Lucas
Member since Nov 2011
73644 posts
Posted on 6/14/21 at 9:29 am to
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Sold my house for literally over $100,000


No you didn't
Posted by Willietd
Member since Apr 2017
1767 posts
Posted on 6/14/21 at 9:51 am to
It's a sellers market at the moment.
Posted by USMEagles
Member since Jan 2018
11811 posts
Posted on 6/14/21 at 9:55 am to
Looking at Zillow and Redfin for my house, I see that one of them gives me credit for a bedroom that I don't have and the other is shortchanging me by about 400 square feet.

The numbers look pretty good, though. They're up about $35,000 from what I paid in September. I think that reflects market conditions pretty well.
Posted by Bestbank Tiger
Premium Member
Member since Jan 2005
71080 posts
Posted on 6/14/21 at 9:55 am to
Sometimes the underlying data is wildly inaccurate.

I saw a property once where they had the closing date off by three weeks and the sale price off by $400,000. I looked at it with a realtor who accessed the MLS and confirmed it was the same property.
Posted by cypresstiger
The South
Member since Aug 2008
10609 posts
Posted on 6/14/21 at 9:59 am to
Sold my house for literally over $100,000 what it said on their site. ----what are you complaining about? You should be thrilled
Posted by Geekboy
Member since Jan 2004
4969 posts
Posted on 6/14/21 at 9:59 am to
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Sold my house for literally over $100,000 what it said on their site.


quote:

No you didn't

Okay. Not literally. Zillow had it listed at $160,000. Sold it for $267,000. So sold it for $107,000 more. My bad.
Posted by offshoretrash
Farmerville, La
Member since Aug 2008
10177 posts
Posted on 6/14/21 at 10:12 am to
If I could sell my house for $100k over their estimated price I would sell it today!
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