Zillow is Complete Crap For Salt Lake City Home Values and Here’s Why

This post is in the: Salt Lake City Sellers category.

There are many websites out there like Zillow that use fancy algorithms to estimate your home’s value based on comparable sales in the surrounding area.  These websites are quite popular and are used by many people during the first stages of the ‘I think I want to sell my home’ process.

A Non-Disclosure State

While in many states these websites and algorithms can be a great starting point for seller, they are not great in states that are considered non-disclosure states.  A non-disclosure state is a state where the sales price of a home does not or can not be disclosed to the public through the local county’s office. (more…)