Curious how much your house is worth?

I found an awesome new site called Zillow.com that provides free instant valuations and data for more than 60 million homes, and you don’t have to enter any personal information to get it. You just type in an address or zip code and it pops up a satellite picture (probably a mash-up with Google Earth) with all the houses listed in the area and tons of data (sales history, current value, house specs, etc.). It’s so neat… I wish the database included Idaho, but alas, it does not.

I played around with it a bit just for fun.

I checked-out the house we sold for $624,000 in Elk Grove, Ca. in August. It is now valued at only $579,680 just 7-months later. Guess we got out just in time!

The house I grew up in located in Escondido is now worth $507,175 (Whoa!) and there were several million-dollar homes on the street as well. That’s crazy. These houses were built in the 70’s!

Play around with it and tell me what you think (Post a comment here)!