Yahoo, Zillow Peek Into Homes

Instead of wondering just how much the neighbors paid for the house across the street, Yahoo provides an easier way to search for home values with the help of Zillow. A partnership between home values into Yahoo Search brings up the Home Values and Comparables on Yahoo! Real Estate shortcut box, according to the Yahoo Search Zillow debuted early in 2006, with about 67 million homes in its database. Expedia founder Richard Barton and other associates created the online real estate estimator, or Zestimator in Zillow-speak. They believe that Zillow is accurate to within about 7 percent of the actual price of a home. To aid searchers, the company recently implemented a Bird's Eye view of properties in some cities. If that sounds familiar to you, it's because Bird's Eye is an option available to users of bargain at $135 million. That price would make it the most expensive home in US history, and probably make the broker handling the deal the happiest person ever to cash a commission check. Add to Del.icio.us | Digg | Yahoo! My Web | Furl Bookmark Murdok: David Utter is a staff writer for Murdok covering technology and business.