I find Zillow.com very interesting because when I was a real estate agent, I would visit it quite frequentlyfor information . They use to provide the name of the last owner that purchased the property but they do not provide that information anymore. Miss that part! Zillow has data on 92 million homes across the U.S., not just those homes currently for sale. Not only does it give the value estimates of homes but it offers several features including value changes of each home in a given time frame, aerial views of homes, and prices of comparable homes in the area. Where it can access appropriate public data, it also provides basic information on a given home, such as square footage and the number of bedrooms and bathrooms. Users can also get current estimates of homes, if there was a significant change made, such as a recently remodeled kitchen. Zillow provides an application programming interface (API) and developer support network.
As of 2006, Zillow launched three new pieces of functionality which allows users to post homes for sale and set a "Make Me Move" price. Then in 2007, Zillow teamed with Microsoft to offer Bird's Eye View, a feature in Microsoft Virtual Earth that shows clearer aerial photographs in some areas that are taken from airplanes rather than conventional satellite imagery. Zillow uses this functionality for entertainment focused features on famous homes.
Zillow reports on individual units, such as providing street address, latitude and longitude. When integrated with the features of a typical online reverse telephone directory and wiki-mapping services, such a Wikimapia.
You will find Zillow.com at the following address: http://www.zillow.com/
Subject: Re:Zillow.com - Week 6 Topic: Week 6 Discussion Topic
Author: Christina Norman
Date: October 4, 2010 8:42 PM
I checked out this site because I know my parents just got their house appraised so I wanted to see if it was the same as we heard. It was actually much lower on the website, compared to what we heard back from the realators proably because of updates and such but it gives an approximate price for so many houses. I thought it was funny that you could just look up anyone's address and see how much their house is worth.
Below are comments from recent visitors to my suggested web application. As you can see it is truly a great place to visit!
Author: Joel Gagne
Date: October 6, 2010 9:53 PM
I went and checked that site out on your recommendation and found it to be very informative. Looking to move in the next two years or so I will be looking at this more an more time goes by.
Author: Christina Norman
Date: October 4, 2010 8:42 PM
I checked out this site because I know my parents just got their house appraised so I wanted to see if it was the same as we heard. It was actually much lower on the website, compared to what we heard back from the realators proably because of updates and such but it gives an approximate price for so many houses. I thought it was funny that you could just look up anyone's address and see how much their house is worth.
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