Free, Easy Home Valuation Tool Online
Ever wonder what that nice house down the street is worth? How about your co-workers place? Or, maybe you’d just like a quick 30-second estimate on the value of your own home.
Zillow.com, a new website, provides free instant valuations on 65 million homes in the United States. Using public records, tax assessments and comparables from recent sales, it comes up with a "zestimate." The site was originally designed to assist home buyers and sellers. However, more and more people are using it for kicks.
Using satellite imagery, visitors can get an up-close, birds-eye view of the house, block and neighborhood in which they are interested. Values for all houses are displayed on your monitor.
All you have to do is type-in the address and zip code of a particular property.
It’s as simple as that. In addition to the value of the house, other details are also available -- number of bedrooms & bathrooms, square footage, lot size, year built, heating & cooling, etc. The data even includes 1, 5 and 10-year appreciation graphs for the property.
Zillow is also handy for listing recent sales data ("comps") within the area, for comparison purposes.
Adding to the fun, a new element provides a birds-eye view and data on famous homes...such as the Beverly Hillbillies Mansion, the Playboy Mansion, Beverly Hills 90210 Home, Happy Days House and Friends Apartment Building.
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