We had a look at Zillow last night. It's Beta, it's cuckoo, but damn it's fun to play with, like a mash-up of Local Live and the MLS.
As pointed out by the kids at SocketSite there seems to a gap between reality and Zillow. We zillowed 226 Palo Alto, a 1964 post-and-beam with outstanding views and came up with a Zestimate of $1.570M despite having been sold three months ago for $1.9M. We may have to wait for their algorithms to adjust to local conditions. Or properly inflate, as it were.
Kudos for the kind of intuitive branding that gets verbed while still in Beta.
· Zillow
· Zillowed [Socketsite]
· 226 Palo Alto [Dona Crowder/Pacific Union]
· Windows Local Live