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Price Prediction Turns Perilous: How Covid Broke Zillow's Pricing Algorithm
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Price Prediction Turns Perilous: How Covid Broke Zillow's Pricing Algorithm

The real-estate website Zillow bought and sold homes based on prices estimated by an algorithm — until Covid-19 confounded the model’s predictive power. Zillow, whose core business is providing real-estate information for prospective buyers, shut down its house-flipping division after...

November 17, 20212 min read
Price Prediction Turns Perilous: How Covid Broke Zillow's Pricing Algorithm
Zestimate

Price Prediction Turns Perilous: How Covid Broke Zillow's Pricing Algorithm

The real-estate website Zillow bought and sold homes based on prices estimated by an algorithm — until Covid-19 confounded the model’s predictive power. Zillow, whose core business is providing real-estate information for prospective buyers, shut down its house-flipping division after...

November 17, 20212 min read
Home Sweet AI-Appraised Home: Inside Zillow's neural network for home price predictions.
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Home Sweet AI-Appraised Home: Inside Zillow's neural network for home price predictions.

Real estate websites helped turn automated real-estate assessment into a classic AI problem. The latest approach by a leader in the field gets a boost from deep learning.

July 7, 20212 min read
Home Sweet AI-Appraised Home: Inside Zillow's neural network for home price predictions.
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Home Sweet AI-Appraised Home: Inside Zillow's neural network for home price predictions.

Real estate websites helped turn automated real-estate assessment into a classic AI problem. The latest approach by a leader in the field gets a boost from deep learning.

July 7, 20212 min read

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