Zillow officials
say the Zestimate's error rate is 5 percent on the more than 110 million U.S. homes it provides valuations upon.
Not exact matches
«Overall, the
Zestimate is incredibly accurate — with a median error rate of 4.5 percent — but occasionally human error does occur,» Zillow spokesman Viet Shelton
said in a statement.
I've found a few, one particularly has sparked my interest, it's only $ 6000, but the «
zestimate», which I've read to take with a grain of salt,
says that it's around $ 103k.
«We've been blown away by the data science community's response to the Zillow Prize,»
says Stan Humphries, creator of the
Zestimate and chief analytics officer at Zillow Group.
That
said,
zestimates take a first shot at pricing.
The site, he
said, leaves the real estate practitioner out of its advertising; puts inaccurate
Zestimates next to list prices; encourages consumers to sell without an agent; posts inaccurate, out - of - date information; and buries basic listings behind pages of «featured» (paid) listings.
Zillow continues to research how to program
Zestimates to account for such factors, but we haven t fully cracked the nut on that one yet, Humphries
said.
Early on, agents
said that Zillow, and particularly it's infamously inaccurate
zEstimates, were a fad that would soon go away.
However the
Zestimates are created, Zillow
says between major upgrades new iterations of the model are constantly being devised.
The word
Zestimate, itself, conveys that the values are merely estimates, Zillow
said.
You
said that the
Zestimate is «a good starting point».
(CORPORATE NEWS) Zillow
says they'll «vigorously defend» themselves against allegations that
Zestimates are concealed on partner brokers» listings.