Keyword: Zestimates
Zillow’s rocky history with accuracy of Zestimates – algorithm updated
AVM accuracy always in question The truth of the matter is that even with modern technology combined with genius mathematicians, coders, economists, hackers, designers and executives, no website can accurately put a price tag on a home. There is no magic robot that can compute an accurate AVM (automated valuation model) of every home in America, but some have taken ...
Zillow’s new Rent Zestimates could bring headaches to rental markets
Zillow launches Rent Zestimates under a cloud of secrecy, avoids scrutiny, and gets a fairy tale send off from those it sponsors, but is less likely to get a pass from those in the property management arena. Rent Zestimates are essentially designed to insert Zillow between the property and the consumer by providing a rent range or “starting point” from which rents ...
Mint.com announces they now include Zestimates in their platform
Personal finance tracking website Mint.com today announced they will include automated home valuations (AVMs) in their suite of mobile-ready applications and have chosen to partner with Zillow.com to provide these AVMs (called “Zestimates” when data is provided by Zillow). This partnership has gone live- as of today, when users log on to their Mint.com account, based on their address on ...
A Business Predicated On A Lie Will Crumble When Exposed…
Imagine… I developed a concept, got a few coders together and soon a new software is born. From Beta, I take the product around the country to VCs showing off the new software, but explain to the VCs that they aren’t investing in the software, it’s more of an idea- software as the bait. We use the software as bait ...













