{"id":1028,"date":"2007-02-09T22:17:24","date_gmt":"2007-02-10T05:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1028"},"modified":"2007-04-01T09:09:14","modified_gmt":"2007-04-01T16:09:14","slug":"travel-through-time-as-you-learn-to-take-your-zestimate-with-1027631-grains-of-salt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1028\/travel-through-time-as-you-learn-to-take-your-zestimate-with-1027631-grains-of-salt\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel through time as you learn to take your Zestimate with 1.027631 grains of salt . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/02\/11\/realestate\/11webb.html?_r=1&#038;oref=slogin\" target=\"_blank\">The Sunday <i>New York Times<\/i><\/a> will have a feature on hi-tech real estate, but you can see it today through the miracle of Google.<\/p>\n<p>Not hugely interesting, more a catalog of press releases. <a href=\"http:\/\/thedenver.blogs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kristal Kraft<\/a> gets a chance to strut, which is fun.<\/p>\n<p>And: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zillow.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Zillow.com<\/a> says you have to take their Zestimates with a grain of salt, which must be why none of them ends with three zeros.<\/p>\n<p>The gist of the article is that information is more valuable to home buyers than pumpkins (who knew?), but, taking account of that, there is a huge omission: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shackprices.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">ShackPrices.com<\/a>, the leader of the pack in deep info. Zillow should just buy them so they can get the kind of press attention they deserve&#8230;<br \/>\n<!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate\" rel=\"tag\">real estate<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate marketing\" rel=\"tag\">real estate marketing<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sunday New York Times will have a feature on hi-tech real estate, but you can see it today through the miracle of Google. Not hugely interesting, more a catalog of press releases. Kristal Kraft gets a chance to strut, which is fun. And: Zillow.com says you have to take their Zestimates with a grain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,5,19,25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1028","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-disintermediation","7":"category-marketing","8":"category-real-estate","9":"category-technology","10":"category-zillowcom","12":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1255,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1255\/greg-peeing-on-the-tree-3\/","url_meta":{"origin":1028,"position":0},"title":"Podcast with David Gibbons, Zillow.com&#8217;s Director of Community Relations: &#8220;We are throwing the gates wide open to the entire community&#8221;","author":"Greg Swann","date":"April 3, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Appended below is an audio podcast with David Gibbons, Director of Community Relations for Zillow.com. 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