For years, the accuracy of Zillow’s Zestimate, the property value estimation tool that appears on every listing on Zillow, sometimes stood as a source of contention for real estate professionals and ...

But Zillow wants to do something about it, and it’s offering up a sizable carrot for anyone who can make the Zestimate better: $1 million. Zillow is offering up the $1 million in a contest it’s ...

From what we hear, the pressure-cooker environment in which the launch was being anticipated–and in many cases beaten to the market by prospective competitors–had a lot to do with the sudden launch, ...

Zillow may have paid $1 million to the winners of its Zillow Prize, a competition aimed at improving its long-running Zestimate, but it looks like some of the findings from the winning team are paying ...

Some people let their body weight define them. The number on the scale becomes a proxy for their self-worth, a numerical representation of their essence, their score as a human. My self-worth is ...

Barbara Andersen says Zillow’s “sloppy” Zestimate is making it difficult to sell her Illinois home. (Zillow Photo by VHT Studios). Since its inception, Zillow’s home-value calculator, know as the ...

When “CBS This Morning” co-host Norah O’Donnell asked the CEO of Zillow recently about the accuracy of the website’s automated property value estimates — known as Zestimates — she touched on one of ...

“Insufficient data” was the bleak verdict from BusinessWeek Online of the much-ballyhooed and anticipated website, which purports to tell you how much your home is worth. Los Angeles Times Tuesday ...

A federal judge yesterday permanently dismissed a lawsuit that Chicago-area homeowners had filed against Zillow over what the homeowners said were inaccurate and unfair practices related to the site's ...

A federal district court has dismissed a closely followed class-action lawsuit that charged Zillow — creator of the controversial Zestimate online home-valuation tool — with deceptive business ...

A Zestimate, in the end, is just an estimate. A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit by several Chicago-area homeowners over Zillow’s “Zestimates” of home values. The suit had alleged Zillow leads ...