Seattle real estate giant Zillow Group announced new tweaks to its Zestimate tool that provides home value data on more than 104 million properties. The company now uses machine learning-based… Read More
A federal judge this week dismissed a two-year-old antitrust lawsuit against Zillow Group and its Zestimate home valuation tool. In 2018, a New Jersey group called EJ MGT sued Zillow,… Read More
A federal appeals court sided with Zillow in a long-running lawsuit over the accuracy and marketing of the real estate giant’s controversial Zestimate tool. A group of homeowners in Illinois… Read More
If the winners of the Zillow Prize decide to spend their $1 million winnings on a new house, at least they’ll know that the Zestimate on whatever they’re looking at… Read More
Almost two years and more than 3,800 teams later, Zillow has a winner in the $1 million competition to improve the accuracy of the Zestimate, the much-debated tool used by… Read More
A group of home-sellers in Illinois on Thursday appealed a federal judge’s decision dismissing a lawsuit over Zillow’s Zestimate tool. U.S. District Court Judge Amy J. St. Eve tossed the lawsuit… Read More
A federal judge in Illinois tossed a lawsuit against Zillow Group claiming that its controversial Zestimate tool represents an unfair business practice and makes it harder for people to sell… Read More
A group in New Jersey sued Zillow Group this week, alleging that letting some partners move the Zestimate valuation tool lower down on listings hurts competition and amounts to a… Read More
As thousands of scientists work to improve Zillow’s Zestimate, the company said today its home valuation tool is more accurate than it has ever been. Zillow said it released a… Read More
A U.S. District Court judge in Illinois dismissed a proposed class action lawsuit against Zillow Group on Wednesday in which the plaintiffs argued against the legality of the Zestimate, the… Read More
The Zillow Zestimate, that much-debated, computer-generated home valuation tool, has been a fixture of the Seattle-based real estate media company for 11 years. And now Zillow is putting a price… Read More
Since its inception, Zillow’s home-value calculator, know as the “Zestimate” has been one of the most controversial features of the company’s real estate portal. Zillow co-founder Rich Barton openly admitted to… Read More
Updated below with Zillow comment. The battle between online real estate companies and which does a better job of calculating home-value estimates heated up on Thursday when Seattle-based Redfin released… Read More
Real estate media company Zillow is upgrading its flagship home valuation feature, the Zestimate, saying it has been able to reduce its national median error rate to 6 percent from 8 percent, and improve… Read More
Home owners across the country love to debate whether their Zestimates are too high or too low. When it comes time to sell, the estimated market value calculated by Zillow can be… Read More
When Zillow launched what is perhaps its most controversial feature, the “Zestimate,” company executives knew it would be provocative — and they wanted it to be. Part of their plan was to use that controversy… Read More
Redfin launched a new estimator tool today, which the company says uses an unprecedented amount of data in order to deliver the industry’s most accurate prediction of how much a home is worth.… Read More
Seattle-based Surefield announced a new tool today that offers a transparent way for Washington state home buyers or sellers to figure out how much a property is worth. The company, which was… Read More
Zillow announced today that it will begin offering a free feed of public records data to multiple listing services that offer the company a feed of their listing data. Called… Read More