Any opinions on how accurate their listed home values are? I looked up my place here in So Cal this morning and damn near choked on my coffee when in came back 783K. Paid 212 for it back in 1997.
Whatever it's worth will come in handy when the wife and I escape from here in a few years

And folks say unkind things about them Caliotos lmao

Awe that's not a useful answer prick GFY. Anyone else?

You needed Zillow to figure out a ballpark on the property you put up for sale that you've owned since 1997?

Not up for sale as of yet. Just started looking into the value and Zillow is where I started.

When I bought and sold my home, the purchase and sales price ended up being within $5k of the Zillow estimate which at the time was within about 2%

it’s not far off when house types are homogeneous.

Zillow is only as accurate as the Realtors that feed information to them. Property values have floated pretty freely recently and quickly flex with the market.

Just for fun I looked up property for sale in my zip code listed by Zillow about 6 weeks ago. They had listed the vacant piece of ground, a 3-Acre lot, that borders our place on the south for sale, complete with glowing listing indicating a stream running alongside the property. Holy smoke, that's MY PLACE they are describing, complete with GPS locator dot a half mile away, just off the Forest Road, which belongs to my family. Calls to the listing realtor (I won't use a capital here) were brushed off, so I got in touch with the local Realtor's Association. A few minutes later I went back to the Zillow site and found that the property description had dropped the fraudulent mention of the stream, but the GPS dot is still on the wrong property.

A local and trusted Realtor is a better source for pricing information An appraisal by a professional should be your guideline. It should be "fresh", like no more than a month before you put your place up for sale. And FWIW, in my opinion, dealing with Zillow is likely to be frustrating.

Slow adjusting, but currently pretty close to my appraisal. However in Boise, just pull a number out of your butt and someone will want to pay it.

Thanks all I reckon I'll just have to list it and let it ride.. Gruff up yours you sniveling bitch...

checked Zillow out, my trailer house is now worth 25k we bought 10yrs ago for 60k. So is that good??

If you don't have any friendly, useful advice....

Why do you even open your fat fuggin mouth?

It is a common theme.

See above.

Zillow can as easily be a million miles off base as they can be spot on for various reasons.

Realtor.com can run a tad closer to correct but like Zillow they are often laughably off base. They get their data from property appraisers websites which are all public record.

If you are really that challenged at putting a value on your property search "recent sold" homes in your area, that will bring you back to reality.
Listing prices can be as meaningless as internet based home valuing tools, what's actually sold in the last couple months around you tells all.

That’s been my experience, albeit limited, my wife stays on top of such things. Some casual friends of ours are high school sweethearts that are currently divorcing (sad but at least they waited until their 4 kids were graduated), which has nothing to do with the story 😂.....they bought a house that we had looked at and seriously considered. It was a little bigger than our current home at 4,400 sq/ft and sits on 5 acres. It was roughly the same vintage as ours although I think that house was 5 or 6 years older than ours which was built in 2007. I don’t think it had a heat pump or A/C like ours but it was a very nice home. The deciding factor for us was all 4 bedrooms were on the ground floor with the master on the main floor and my wife didn’t like the idea of the kid’s bedrooms being downstairs while we were upstairs. If you walk outside of the French doors downstairs you walk out onto the lawn where less than 50 yards away was the creek and the pond. Anyway. The house was sold to our “friends” for $365,000 in 2012. They kept it in good condition and did some little landscaping improvements but nothing major. 2 months ago they listed it at $895,000, a week later they accepted an offer for $855,000. Zillow updated it remarkably fast to reflect, almost in real time, the ’value’. Prior to the listing and sale Zillow estimated it at $595,000 and they were taxed on a assessed value of $469,000. It can be hard to be accurate when rural properties are rarely similar. Getting comps on rural property can be tricky because of the number of variables like barns, outbuildings, etc. not to mention homes which can vary from big lodges, large estate type homes to a single wide stuck in tthe woods on 5 acres.

Make sure you brag about how much you made on your house sale in whatever locale gets stuck with your amazing self. You go gurl.

Whitefish is full of CA fa gs, if you land there let me know I'll buy you a coffee.

Edit to add:

Nobody gives a flying fugk how rich you are or what your house is worth. Putting the numbers up, real or not, was virtue signaling. Were you a grown man posting and talking with peers, you'd have asked "hey, do you guys think Zillow is a reasonable estimation of property value?"

True to form however, you've got to show the ladies your clit. I'm sorry if my pointing out your [bleep] is uncomfortable. Maybe you should stay in CA and suck dik.

They got that data from a property appraisers site as soon as the sale was recorded.

That's really good info for this thread AcesNeights, on the flip side, I sold two waterfront homes this past Spring, they sat next to each other. Right away the real estate sites skyrocket the value on a non waterfront home I own two blocks away. It's no where near worth what they state they merely ran off the recent sales nearby. The quality and special features of homes isn't taken into consideration with the voodoo math used to value properties on these internet sites.

I see what you did there... and I like it.

In my area, take redfin, which rates high, and zillow, which rates low and average the two. Zillow said $382k, redfin said $398k, put it on the market at $389k. Sold for $415k in one day.

A detailed appraisal, by a licensed professional, only costs a few hundred dollars.

My SoCal House I paid $260 for in 1996 just bank appraised at $780 but Zillow had it as $680 so it's hit and miss.

Zillow is a crock at best.

Maybe if you live in an area with 500 homes sales a day, but when 6 homes have been sold in the past year within a 10 mile radius, it's useless.

Unfortunately, lots of idiots like it.

lot of truth in this.....bob

Tyvek should help.

Tyvek Alaska's siding choice since ... ah ... well when ever it came on the market.

I looked at a house in an unnamed Alaskan city. The bathroom was beautiful until you lifted up the toilet seat and realized the there was a hole clean through to the crawlspace with a bucket under it. LOL

Yes please.

Zillow is pretty accurate. My girlfriend owns 5 nice rental houses and I often check the values on zillow. They are pretty good, within 5 percent I would say.

Isn't that part of living in Alaska?

Zillow has a very simplistic way of estimating. Basically, square footage and lot size. Age and condition are not taken into consideration. It will value a house that is caving in the same as a house that has been remodeled and in perfect condition.

Dang.......almost felt sorry for a Californian. Almost.

Must be my diminished testosterone levels....

^^^Another virtue signaler...^^^

Did I miss your friendly useful advice here CuckDuck7-Eleven?

I just checked my home on zillow.

Then I looked at zillow competitors.

https://craft.co/zillow/competitors

Redfin was 2% lower than Zillow...,,,,,,,,,,,,. just as any realtor will tell you.

I use zillow all the time. It's close enough. Redfin is useful, too. Just don't get on their email list. Lol.

Don't listen to the nay-sayers here that don't know what they're talking about / aren't in the business every single day.

And, BTW, you don't need an appraisal to get a ballpark and/or figure out what you're going to ask for your house. Let the guy buying the place pay for an appraisal.. Unless you are just absolutely determined to piss away $350-700.

Good luck getting out of KA. Hope you find somewhere nice.

Duck O' Douche,

Your holiday weekend meltdown has been epic.

I'm hoping your wife let's you drink some more this evening.

LOL

Yeah, because you are all knowing and know the markets everywhere.

You city girls are a funny bunch of twats.

Just doin' muh yob.

Lol.

(Chkunt)

Yes, it means it hasnt burned down from a leaking water heater rotting the floor and falling through and starting a fire.

Also means no Smell Good wall plug in hasn't melted and shorted out and.....

Hang tough, LD. Funny twats are better than none.

I'm surprised more of you dont kill yourselves. Getting worked up about an internet real estate listing service? Wow, some of you are really troubled.

Thanks, but don't worry about us.

You're the one that lives in Iowa.

What did I miss?

Yeah I’m pretty much a big real estate mogul.. closing multi dollar deals at IHOP.

DuckDuckGoose acting like he’s from Oregon.

Golf thread

Troll Farm.

Nothing but.

Sure is, these days.

One may choke at the estimate, but look up the cost of a potential replacement. They're not cheap either.

IME pretty accurate. As mentioned before it depends on the accuracy of the inputs. If the market is active there are lots of data to work with, so Zillow is a pretty good guide.

Checking data accuracy about description of your own property and others you know helps to refine the estimates. A good practice is to obtain a competitive market analysis (CMA) from several - 3 is accepted in the industry as a good indicator - realtors active and knowledgeable about your specific area with a recommendation on listing price. Listing at the price the market defines also helps with a quicker sale.

In my local market Zillow reflects final selling price pretty closely, when we ascertain that the comparables are accurate. Sometimes unrecorded improvements to your property and/or the apparent comps can greatly affect price estimates. Seller beware. You can never have enough accurate info to set price.

Not sure how you value a house, here, now.

The last few months they do an open house and post the asking price.

Traditionally, one would reduce that about 10% and make an offer.
Unless there were some extenuating circumstances.

There are now.

The house gets shown, and offers are treated as bids.
Two weeks later the seller opens them and decides which, if any to accept.

Nice homes, out if town go well above asking.

They are mostly bug out homes for DC'ers or Baltimorons.

Any realtor could pull comps in about an hour and have a reasonably accurate assessment of probable sales price.

Duck911, seek therapy. You seem to be having an episode, possibly brought on by the holiday season or maybe stress induced covid overload. You should put Flave on ignore, he seems to be a trigger for your psychosis? If you need help, PM happy camper. He seems to be able to perform miracles through simple prayer.

Around here, get your comps then add 10-15%. You’ll get a contract within 7 days.

Not very accurate. Tend to over inflate prices IMO

yep

No worries...Montana is rapidly turning blue 'silly goat muff' ya dumb fuqk. Must be a heavy flow day for you douchbag crawl back into your doublewide and figure out how to get caught up on your rent...

Put another way, “Welcome to Montana “.

Laffin here.

Can you be more specific?

He’s asking about you talking about other people drinking more.

I'm counting on them not being able to evict me 'cause of the pandemic rules. Fingers crossed for another covid check, it really helped out last time.

A “Covid Patient Inside “ sign on the exterior doors helps, Gruff .

I thought so...

Folks like yourself are what give the good guys in CA a bad name. Plenty of them on this board even, yet you perpetuate the stereotype. Congrats.

Just looked at Zillow, they show a value of my house about $250K overpriced.

Oh fuqk you. You don't like anyone from CA Miss Montana. You ain't fooling anyone on here. You started right off with the Cal bashing and now your trying to back track you spineless POS... Just fuqk off.

Been taking victim lessons from furballz? Gotta say, you are fitting the stereotype better with each post.

What's next?

At least his wife will let him leave California. There are a few manly types that can't leave there because of their wives.

people post photos of their houses......garages with nice cars in them.....high dollar guns...expensive hunts....on and on....from all over.

big deal he said something about how his house went up in value and how much.....hell someone posted a picture of some ones ac corba..

if it is not a replica....worth a hell of a lot more than the guy from cali house.......dont come off as envious....

to lighten the mood......know why you cant get a bj in cali?....all those cork suckers moved here to mt......bob

You reprobates, leave Montana out of this...... oh and Gruff has a really nice double wide...

He's easy an easy to provoke twatwaffle.

Sometimes I can't resist the low hanging fruit.

I really enjoy the guys who retire and flaunt their money, act like business tycoons and come to find out all they did was sell their house at some inflated value..... 90 percent of the time they are from Calif.
coincidence?

Oh and Montana is full of them...

So Gruff has a reason to be annoyed... and I was joking about his double wide...

why would anyone care how some one made their money..........whats inflated value?....if thats the going price, thats not inflated ...bob

Wait one minute, GRIZZ!

Thought I was the only one living in a double-wide, in a quickly-blue-turning State.

Whose double-wide is nicer? Can't get zillow pulled up on my Commodore.

You missed my point Bob, it's the fact they think they were responsible for the windfall, takes no skill to live in a house for 30 yrs. Inflated value is a 1700sq ft, 40 yr old subdivision house in San Jose selling for 1 million dollars....

I know your reading comprehension is better than that... what gives?

Why some guy from California even posted a photo of his Corvette Zo6 on here this morning. Of all the nerve, Is that stereotypical enough for ya you miserable Montana pricks? LMFAO

Grizz you should retire to Colorado..... maybe Oregon?

Real estate bubbles do exist.... did you forget 2008 already?

Why yours is of course MR wiener no doubt... Now don't feel slighted.

He likes warm weather......what about Juarez?

Nevada. I love hunting Nevada

Nevada used to be good, really good, I enjoyed my 10yrs there. That was 30yrs ago though

Real estate bubbles do exist.... did you forget 2008 already?

its only a bubble when it pops.....till then the price is what it is....and as you well know after the pop.....prices usually come back stronger.

I didnt miss your point.....my point is...who gives a crap ....just dont associate with people like that.....and if the price for a 40 year old house in san jose is 1 mil....than thats the price to pay......we should be glad we dont live there......bob

Nevada is blue but nothing like CA so goes the US. I like the Predator calling there and and Nevada is underrated when it come to trophy Mule Deer and Elk. I know it well once I'm a resident nothing will be off limits

I agree with you on that.....when I was there not a bad place.....then the cali moved in...my bil and sil bitcth about it all the time.

30 for me also....lived there for 5......bob

I haven't caught up to the part of this thread where the personal insults start, so apologies for responding to the OP's question....

In urban areas where there are a lot of sales and houses are fungible, Zillow is remarkably accurate. That's because if you have a cookie cutter development and the houses are pretty much all the same, it's easy to just use the last few sales to create an estimate for the next sale.

In other areas, though, Zillow is laughable. For example, we sold a house in California a few years ago to buy the house in Montana. The Zestimate for the CA house was within a few grand of what it sold for. The estimate for the Montana house, though, wasn't even close (over estimated by several hundred thousand dollars from the actual selling price), and now that there have been a bunch of sales in the neighborhood at inflated "I'm from CA, here's a million bucks for your cottage", it's even more off.

Zillow has a very hard time taking into account the value of a historic old home in a preservation district when there are a bunch of similarly sized newer homes nearby that are priced more like commodities. I'm waiting for someone to see the Zestimate for our place and make an offer for that amount. We love where we live, but if some Google billionaire wants to throw millions at us, we'll smile and say yes.

In town Zillow seems reasonably accurate, rural areas not so much around here. Something with all the vacant land sales throw it off. Neighbors just appraised there place, it was 10%-15% higher than Zillow. But then again we’ve seen a 20% run up on prices this year with the rona.

Now he’s name dropping IHOP. smfh...

I’m just looking for the highlights.

Wow. Who cares about zillow. Frog slowly boiling.... The real answer is CA is going to [bleep] the bed in a hurry. Who in their right mind is going to buy your house there 2 years from now? For the B.S. inflated prices. Hey I own some stock but until I sell it it is all funny money. Ask yourself what you belive the future of "the Golden State" is and act accordingly.

If you are happy there then the value of your home is irrelevant. It is your home not an investment. If you feel the need to get out of a sinking ship sell now while real estate is still selling then move off the x before you get hammered.

sshhh

When you "escape" and get here don't tell us how they do it in California! The majority of California people voted tor the mess they now have and as soon as they move they vote to change to the way it's done in California.After they sell their house for big bucks they are still liberals, just got money.

Las Vegas makes the state blueer than blue, big union vote, mostly Culinary Worker and crooked politicians, Harry Reid, still runs the place. USED to be underrated for trophy Mule Deer and Elk, over run with lions, wolves moving in and a very liberal Dept of Wildlife over selling tags and killing off the breeders. Decent bucks are few and far between. We kill 5 or 6 200" bucks a year and really trophy Elk are gone.

That is the problem.......it's not 'your' home if you don't pay the crazy-high property taxes on your over-valued house.