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We've been eagerly anticipating the beta launch of Zillow for weeks now-- rumors surrounded the project. Some of that had to do with the founder, Richard Barton; his previous project was Expedia, and many people expected Zillow to be similarly ground-breaking. The beta is fairly impressive: enter an address, and Zillow returns a list of sale prices for properties in the area. They also provide analysis of sale prices on a state or county level (Use New York county for Manhattan, or Kings county for Brooklyn, etc.) In other parts of the country, this information may be a little more useful than it is in New York-- here, prices can vary widely even in a single building, so their estimates can sometimes be off by a wide margin. Still, the more information, the better-- watch your back, Property Shark! [Related: BusinessWeek has an article today about the site.]
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Looks like the site is down other than the homepage.
ugh, I gotta load up firefox as a mac user, ugh. safari people.
It comes in quite slow on Explorer. They acknowledge it:
"Site seems slow? Close your eyes and envision your perfect home
By then maybe the server can handle our zillions of visitors."
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I got it to work briefly and it was very cool, but now it seems to not be working.
This isn't accurate. I searched an area where i was recently looking at houses and the quoted prices are half of sellers' asking prices.
yea actually their price database seems to be a bit wonky. a very neat tool though - they even inserted a joke on their front page about the slow loading time :)