Tag: valuation
Zillow your life - it’s quite interesting
I grew up at 4950 Lancaster Avenue My parents purchased it for $7,000 in 1957 or so. They made nothing on it and it is now the hole that you see between the buildings. But they raised seven children there. I lived there from age 3 to age 20 or so when [...]
Posted: November 3rd, 2006 under General Real Estate.
Tags: home, house, valuation, value, zestimate, Zillow
Comments: 6
Speaking of Trojan Horses!
After reading John Cooks blog, ‘Beware of what you post on Zillow?‘ I started to think, how much is to much??? Much like my last post about the ‘Trojan Horse‘ are we all becoming so connected that it makes sense for the County Assessor to start using these tools as a way to fuel [...]
Posted: September 21st, 2006 under General Real Estate.
Tags: assessement, home, King-County, MyZillow, real-estate, valuation, Zillow
Comments: 6
Valuing Real Property in the Seattle Area
My engineer friends are asking off screen for more details on a “scientific” approach to valuing property. You know, something they can put on an Excel Spreadsheet Here’s a fairly tried and true method of valuation here in the Seattle Area. This method was so accurate a couple of years ago, [...]
Posted: August 25th, 2006 under General Real Estate.
Tags: assessed-value, assessment, condition, method, neighbohroods, real-estate, Seattle, tools, valuation, value, view, zestimate
Comments: 14
Valuing Homes for Buyers
To some extent buyers, especially first time buyers, encourage receiving inaccurate information with regard to value and other home details, by asking the right questions at the wrong time.
Sellers understand that it takes time to work on a valuation. Rarely does a seller call and say, “I live at 123 Great Street, what is [...]
Posted: August 23rd, 2006 under General Real Estate.
Tags: buyers, home, listing, real-estate, valuation, value
Comments: 6
How to Value a House
While “market value” and “appraised value” are not always one in the same, calculating a home’s value is both a science and an art, whether the value is being ascertained by an appraiser or a real estate professional.
The purpose of the valuation can actually have some bearing on the value itself. If you have [...]
Posted: August 23rd, 2006 under General Real Estate.
Tags: agent, automatic, buyer, house, lender, loan, price, real-estate, seller, valuation, value
Comments: 8
Zillow vs. “average” agent
When I wrote my “Baby Takes a Bow” piece which took about 30 seconds, I knew I was opening Pandora’s Box, and would have to back up my one liners with some extensive writing on each topic outlined therein.
My definition of Pandora’s Box is the one one that attributes “the box” to a “woman’s womb” [...]
Posted: August 18th, 2006 under General Real Estate.
Tags: CMA, Comparable-Market-Analysis, Inman, MLS, real-estate, Redfin, valuation, value, Zillow
Comments: 29
