Finding Home Values in Web Search
With all the recent discussion on where home prices are heading, we saw a great opportunity to improve our home valuation product on Yahoo! Real Estate. We�ve integrated our product with Zillow.com to provide users with free instant home value estimates and comparable home valuations for millions of homes in the U.S.
We also made it very easy to get your estimated home valuation: just go to Yahoo! Search and search for ‘home values�. You can then refine your search with a Yahoo! Shortcut by entering any street address and city/state or ZIP to get the estimated value on Yahoo! Real Estate.
The home values page includes a map with your searched home, along with 10 comparables, and has a table showing each home�s Zestimate (estimated home value) and 1 week value change. We�re using Yahoo! Maps which provides satellite imagery in case you want to see what the neighborhood looks like. And we also provide a graph to show historical price trends and a link to Yahoo! Answers so you can ask questions on real estate and home values.
So go check your home�s value (or any home for that matter–your neighbor�s, your boss’ … you get the picture) and let us know what you think.
Fred Bao, Technical Yahoo!
Carlos Teran, Product Manager Yahoo! Real Estate
Yi Zhang, Engineering, Technical Yahoo!
