I’ve been pondering the idea of adding a Zillow Home Valuation widget to the website for the various city pages, but there seems to be some kinks with the code. Before I bad-mouth the graph, I will admit that it’s nice to have data that is updated automatically. Also, the chart allows you to click on the 1, 5 and 10 year data…pretty cool!
A lot of real estate agents and homeowners don’t like Zillow because of the ambiguity in the home values it produces with its Z-estimates, however I see it as just another tool in the new real estate web 2.0 era. Indeed many of the estimates are wrong and not accurate, but that’s why you have several resources (ie realtors) to assist with determining your homes’ value.
Oh, back to the graph…for some reason the Phoenix dot in the key should be orange like the line on the graph, but it’s not. I guess I will have to be patient until Zillow get’s this bug fixed.
