{"id":86,"date":"2006-07-14T07:07:43","date_gmt":"2006-07-14T14:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=86"},"modified":"2007-04-01T10:27:56","modified_gmt":"2007-04-01T17:27:56","slug":"on-line-cmas-yield-confusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/86\/on-line-cmas-yield-confusion\/","title":{"rendered":"On-line CMAs yield confusion"},"content":{"rendered":"

From RealEstateJournal.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n

After getting five estimates — four from online sites, and one from a professional appraiser who inspected the home in person. We were told the home might sell for anywhere from $291,000 to $375,000 — an $84,000, or 29%, spread.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The appraiser is probably closest to the mark, of course. Completely automated systems like Zillow.com can be accurate by accident, much as a gift-buyer might be accurate buying you clothes using measurements obtained from your friends. In many cases, I can tell practically to the dollar what a home will sell for. Other homes defy prediction. Certainty is never hard to find, though. If you want to know what your house is worth, sell it. The home’s value is what you got for it. Everything else is just a guess, no matter how well educated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From RealEstateJournal.com: After getting five estimates — four from online sites, and one from a professional appraiser who inspected the home in person. We were told the home might sell for anywhere from $291,000 to $375,000 — an $84,000, or 29%, spread. The appraiser is probably closest to the mark, of course. Completely automated systems […]<\/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":[4,5,25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-86","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-disintermediation","7":"category-real-estate","8":"category-zillowcom","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":723,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/723\/use-full-appraisal-to-correctly-assess-houses-true-value\/","url_meta":{"origin":86,"position":0},"title":"Use full appraisal to correctly assess house’s true value","author":"Greg Swann","date":"December 1, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"This is me from today's Arizona Republic (permanent link): Use full appraisal to correctly assess house's true value Who can best judge what a piece of real property will sell for? We all know the answer to that. The best estimate of the value of real estate will come from\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Marketing"","block_context":{"text":"Marketing","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/marketing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":343,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/343\/ask-the-broker-where-can-you-go-to-get-the-most-accurate-estimates-for-real-estate\/","url_meta":{"origin":86,"position":1},"title":"Ask the Broker: Where can you go to get the most accurate estimates for real estate?","author":"Greg Swann","date":"September 16, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Who can best judge what a piece of real property will sell for? We all know the answer to that: The best estimate of the value of real estate will come from an experienced real estate appraiser, preferably one with a lot of experience in the neighborhood where the subject\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Ask the Broker"","block_context":{"text":"Ask the Broker","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/ask-the-broker\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":635,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/635\/avid-avm-aversion-extends-only-to-zillowcom-ncrc-off-shoot-starts-competing-on-line-valuation-service\/","url_meta":{"origin":86,"position":2},"title":"Avid AVM aversion extends only to Zillow.com: NCRC off-shoot starts competing on-line valuation service . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"November 13, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Curiouser and curiouser. Could it be that NCRC's motive is not to shake-down Zillow.com but to sully its reputation, in advance of going into competition against it? From InmanNews (fingered by Jim Duncan of Real Central VA):Zillow officials say their valuations should also be seen as a starting point for\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blogging"","block_context":{"text":"Blogging","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/blogging\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1565,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1565\/zillowcom-off-the-hook-in-arizona-state-rethinks-crackdown-on-online-home-appraisals\/","url_meta":{"origin":86,"position":3},"title":"Zillow.com off the hook in Arizona?: “State rethinks crackdown on online home appraisals”","author":"Greg Swann","date":"June 22, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"This is me in the Arizona Republic (permanent link). State rethinks crackdown on online home appraisals The move by the Arizona Board of Appraisal and Attorney General Terry Goddard to prosecute Zillow.com, and potentially other Internet-based home valuation services, may be at an end. Last June and November, the board\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Disintermediation"","block_context":{"text":"Disintermediation","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/disintermediation\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1358,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1358\/state-vs-zillowcom-will-be-a-lengthy-bout\/","url_meta":{"origin":86,"position":4},"title":"State vs. Zillow.com will be a lengthy bout","author":"Greg Swann","date":"April 27, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"This is me in today's Arizona Republic (permanent link). This goofy little column often \"breaks news\" in the sense that I cover facts that have not yet been reported by the Republic's real estate reporters. Normally I keep this to myself, because I don't want to frighten the people who\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Disintermediation"","block_context":{"text":"Disintermediation","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/disintermediation\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4778,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/4778\/zillowcom-creates-a-directory-of-real-estate-agents-who-cant-sell\/","url_meta":{"origin":86,"position":5},"title":"Zillow.com creates a directory of real estate agents who can’t sell","author":"Greg Swann","date":"October 1, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Okay here's the good news: You have another opportunity to garner a do-follow link from Zillow.com. And here's the bad news: For that link to do you any good, your best bet is to be a really bad listing agent. The more listings you can accumulate on Zillow.com -- which\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Disintermediation"","block_context":{"text":"Disintermediation","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/disintermediation\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}