The Afternoon Wrap: Wednesday

  • The popular Zillow Web site is often right when it entertainingly estimates home values. “But when Zillow is bad, it can be terrible — off the mark by more than 25% on one in 10 homes.” But really, how much does $2 million matter in Manhattan real estate? [WSJ via Luxist]
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  • How to Zillow Your Ex-Wife

    So, Newsweek finally jumps on the Zillow bandwagon. Remember the Zillow fervor a few months back? We vaguely do.

    Anyway, CFO Spencer Raskoff emphasizes that people might use Zillow for reasons outside of house-hunting.

    Zillowers are looking at their boss, ex-wife, the girl they didn’t marry. We’ve heard great Read More

    Trulia and Property Shark Join Forces

    We were late receiving the press release from Trulia.com and PropertyShark about a reciprocal arrangement to share data (though The Walk-Through got it a couple hours ago).

    Here’s why they’re doing it, according to a statement from PropertyShark founder Matthew Haines:

    “As the real-estate data market heats up, with lavishly-funded start-ups like Zillow Read More

    Manhattan Swept Up In Zillow’s Midnight Ride

    At midnight on Feb. 8, the mysterious new Web site created by the swashbuckling Web entrepreneur Richard Barton was scheduled to go live. If all goes as planned—at press time, it appeared it would—it’s going to be a weird moment.

    The story of Zillow.com has been, from start to finish, an anachronism: a stealth start-up Read More

    Manhattan Swept Up In Zillow’s Midnight Ride

    At midnight on Feb. 8, the mysterious new Web site created by the swashbuckling Web entrepreneur Richard Barton was scheduled to go live. If all goes as planned—at press time, it appeared it would—it’s going to be a weird moment.

    The story of Zillow.com has been, from start to finish, an anachronism: a stealth Read More

    Zillow Launches. Get Your Zestimate!


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    Zillow is here.

    From what we hear, the pressure-cooker environment in which the launch was being anticipated–and in many cases beaten to the market by prospective competitors–had a lot to do with the sudden launch, initially scheduled loosely for the Spring or thought to be on hold till the Summer. Read More