On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 05:07:01 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:


"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:21:43 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:

Everything was dropped, and by a considerable amount, depending on the
particular house value.

Zillow has a chart feature on houses - if you go to the bottom of the
page to the charts section, you can do a 1, 5 or 10 year average along
with all kinds of intersting data that involves time.

It does keep historical data - I can send you a link via email that
shows the historical data for a house I own in Danielson.

There's something funny going on at Zillow. I think they did something
within the last 2 or 3 months with their "calculator".
According to the "old" historical data, our primary house peaked about 4
months ago. It now is valued almost 700K lower. But, if you go back and
look at the new graph and the value it shows 4 months ago, the peak is 400K
lower than the old graph. Almost like they revaluated all the historical
data. So, I guess that's good. We've only lost 300K in value instead of
400K. :-)

I haven't checked the detailed data on the other two houses we own.

Ah - I understand now. Let me go look.

Hmmm - that's interesting. The house peaked about 4 months ago at
$250K and it's now $224K which I expected, but as I remember it it was
$265 back then.

You know what they may have done is readjust the historical data to
reflect actual market conditions at that time. To tell the truth,
that house was never worth $250K. It does have a high assessment
because it's an unusual house lot - the apartments are huge - the
total house is like 2,780 square feet.

The house we're living in now peaked at $450K - it's now down about
$385K. - which is kind of bogus - the land is worth more than the
house. :)

Interesting times - interesting times.