Or more specifically, how much is the whole house? There are a lot of websites out there that allow you to search for the "market value" of a home. Many of the older free look up services are now forcing you to provide contact information so that you can be pestered, I mean solicited, er, um, "helped" by by an affiliated real estate agent.
Zillow is one of the relative newcomers that still has a non-nosey search option that has gotten a lot of press, but I've found it extremely lacking for my neck of the woods. Only off by, say 500% of the realistic "market value" of houses in the area. That might not be the case in your neighborhood, though.
A new site I just found is HouseFront. It lists the sales history and a map as well as a much more accurate market value. Unfortunately, my house has lost almost $60K in value over the last several years since the bottom fell out of the housing market several years ago. We didn't get out in time, so now we're kinda stuck here for a few more years at least until things pick back up.
Anyway, back to HouseFront. One of the interesting things that this site offers, is that ability to text an address to their servers and receive a message back to your phone with the same information you'd get on their website. I'm having trouble getting the SMS service to work at the moment, but the website is a bit of an addiction. How much did your neighbor overpay for their house?
Saturday, August 18, 2007
How much is that window with the doggie?
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2 comments:
James- Great Post!
I'm actually with the company. Sorry you were having a bit of trouble with the text service. The response should be around 10 seconds.
Try sending a test address again, the short code is 'HOUSE' or 46873. You can also search by name via SMS too, try texting Tom Cruise or Paris Hilton.
Tested again based on Stephen's comments. It worked. Very well, actually. -- Thanks
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