Chicago Metro Area Real Estate
A Better Buying Experience
Hundreds of homes for sale in the Chicago multiple listing service (MLS), Midwest Real Estate Data, aren’t on this site or any other public Internet site. When I did an unscientific check last week they were 2.4% of all Chicago MLS listings. 3.4% weren’t found on sites such as Zillow or Trulia. These are not […]
I received an email from Zillow.com this morning with a link to their Chicago home values. A nice looking chart of Zillow’s Home Value Index for Chicago appeared. Zillow defines the index as the mid-point of Zestimate valuations for Chicago. Half the Zestimates are above this number and half are below it. A Zestimate is […]
While I have often pointed out the poor job that Zillow.Com does when estimating home values, I have always acknowledged some of Zillow’s other technical features. This map of Chicago Metro Area Home Prices is an example. Zillow calls it a heat map since the hotter colors represent higher prices per square foot. For example, […]
In parts 1 and 2 of this post I pointed out 4 significant errors in the New York Times Magazine article on real estate agents titled, “Endangered Species” by Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt. See “If Only Poor Writers Were an “Endangered Species” Part 1 of 3” and “If Only Poor Writers Were […]
I’m trying to keep an open mind about the new home value estimator, Zillow.Com, but I’m yet to be impressed. My friend, Erin, e-mailed me this morning and said she loved Zillow, but found some of the square footage data incorrect. It wasn’t adding first and second floor square footage. I entered addresses for several […]
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