{"id":4229,"date":"2006-02-20T16:35:01","date_gmt":"2006-02-20T16:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/zillow.html"},"modified":"2006-02-20T16:35:01","modified_gmt":"2006-02-20T16:35:01","slug":"zillow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/voip\/zillow.html","title":{"rendered":"Zillow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: \"><font size=\"2\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"5\" src=\"http:\/\/images.usatoday.com\/tech\/_photos\/2006\/02\/20\/zillow180.jpg\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"5\" border=\"0\" \/>There was an <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/tech\/news\/2006-02-19-zillow_x.htm\"><font size=\"2\">article<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> in the USA Today about <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zillow.com\/\"><font size=\"2\">Zillow<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\">, a site that has millions of homes listed with their appraisals and full home details. According to the article the site ranges from inaccurate to near perfect depending on location. I tried a few houses in <state w:st=\"on\" \/><place w:st=\"on\" \/>Connecticut<\/place \/><\/state \/> and in both cases the site was off. In one case it was within 10% and the other case by at least 50%. Also the number of bedrooms was off for one of the houses I checked. This was mentioned as a problem in the article as well.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to a detailed database you can see the listings from a satellite making this service really interesting. I can already see a cool VoIP tie-in as you could see the satellite image of the person that is calling you. Imagine satellite photo Caller-ID.<\/p>\n<p>The site is in the test stage according to the USA Today.<\/p>\n<p>I have to give the site lots of credit for undertaking such a massive endeavor. Although Zillow is not perfect it can perhaps over time save people trips to city hall which in my experience is worth a huge sum.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was an article in the USA Today about Zillow, a site that has millions of homes listed with their appraisals and full home details. According to the article the site ranges from inaccurate to near perfect depending on location. I tried a few houses in Connecticut and in both cases the site was off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[191],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}