With so many online home valuation companies available on the internet these days, its hard to deciper which ones to use.  Threre's Zillow, Cyberhomes, Real Estate ABC, to name a few.  My take -  use them all and compare them side-by-side and make your own estimates based on all the comps available.  If you are an agent, work with your clients to help them take the additional steps to make the valuations more comprehensive by taking into details that are not available online such as the upgrades to the property, the property's location to schools and their APIs, and of course the exact location of your home (corner lot, cul-de-sac, on top of the hill with a panoramic view etc, etc,etc.) 

More recently, HouseFront.com has been making some headlines.  At first glance, HouseFront.com and Zillow.com share strikingly similar offerings with instant home valuations, mobile valuations, and the ability to add photos and listing details to your home.  However, a closer look reveals one eye-catching offering that catapults the curiosity factor to a new level - all home valuation queries returns the complete home ownership history, listing all the names of current owners as well as previous owners.  What ?  Now you can not only figure out how much your neighbor's home is worth, but you can also find out who actually lives there and who lived there before.   Browsing through the site, I came across some of the top searches on the site here.   The list includes homes of: Harrison Ford, Priscilla Presley, Sugar Ray Leonard, Jodie Foster, and many more…

What do you think ? Is this going too far or do we actually need to know the owner's names when we're searching for home valuations ?

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