By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - Zillow Group Inc on Wednesday won the dismissal of a federal lawsuit in Chicago challenging the accuracy of the online real estate website's 'Zestimate' tool for ...

For many Americans, checking their home’s value on Zillow has become a digital-age ritual — part curiosity, part bragging rights. The Zestimate — available for homes both on and off the ...

The Zillow website on Monday, showing the sale price and the current Zestimate for a home sold by CEO Spencer Rascoff on Feb. 29. (Via Zillow.com) Home owners across the country love to debate ...

It was bound to happen: A homeowner has filed suit against online realty giant Zillow, claiming the company’s controversial “Zestimate” tool repeatedly undervalued her house, creating a ...

The so-called “Zestimate” for Barbara Andersen’s home is more than $70,000 below the current asking price for her three-bedroom townhouse in Glenview, Illinois, according to Zillow’s website.

When you type in a home’s street address to obtain an online valuation from the two biggest players in the field — Zillow’s Zestimate or Redfin’s Estimate tools — how good is what you ...

Real estate media company Zillow is upgrading its flagship home valuation feature, the Zestimate, saying it has been able to reduce its national median. Toggle search box Toggle navigation.

What this means is that you shouldn’t take Zillow’s Zestimate as gospel, whether you’re buying or selling, but instead it can be helpful to have a real estate agent who can give you a more ...

Zillow is offering a $1 million award to the “person or team who can most improve the Zestimate algorithm,” the real estate website said Wednesday. The announcement of the contest comes one ...

The popular online tool for estimating home prices created by Zillow a year ago was the focus of a global search for a better algorithm. Zillow’s Zestimate got an upgrade — and this trio got ...

“The Zestimate on my house was 10 percent higher than the appraisal for a refinance” in February. That was the experience John in Newton had with Zillow’s home valuation algorithm, according ...