Ascension Estates
Free · no obligation · done by hand by Kurt Mellinger

Your Zillow home value, checked by a real person.

Zillow's number is a computer guess. Yours gets worked out by hand from the homes that actually sold near you. Put in your address below. The full report lands in your inbox within the hour.

Prepared by Kurt personally, within the hour. Your information is never sold or shared.
Free. Nothing to pay, now or later. No obligation. Get the number and walk away. A person, not a bot. Kurt reads every one.

How far off can a Zestimate be?

Zillow publishes its own error rate, and it is worth reading before you trust the number. For a home that is not listed for sale right now, which is yours, Zillow's published median errorThe middle miss. Half of homes are closer to the real price than this. Half are further away. It is not the worst case. is 7.01%.

For a home that is already listed for sale, the same figure drops to about 2%. The gap is the point. Zillow gets much closer once a real agent has priced the house and put it on the market.

What 7.01% looks like in dollars $105,150 on a $1,500,000 home

That is the middle miss, in either direction. A $1.5M home is ordinary across Calabasas, Westlake Village and Agoura Hills. Price off by that much and you either leave money behind or sit on the market for months.

Arithmetic on Zillow's own published figure: 7.01% of $1,500,000. Zillow updates its accuracy numbers, so check the current one on Zillow's Zestimate page. Want the long version with your own number plugged in? Read is your Zillow Zestimate accurate.

Why does a computer miss?

A Zestimate reads public records. It knows your square feet, your bed count and the year the house went up. That gets it into the neighborhood.

It has never seen your kitchen. It does not know you put a new roof on in 2023. It does not know the house behind you backs a busy road, or that the two compsShort for comparable sales. The homes near you that recently sold, and that a buyer would weigh against yours. it leaned on both sold to cash buyers in a hurry.

Somebody who walks your street every week knows all of it. That is the whole difference, and it is why your number gets done by hand here.

Run your own numbers while you wait

These are free calculators on this site. No email, no sign up. Open any of them right now.

What you would actually walk away with Your price minus every cost of selling. The number that matters. Open → What you would owe in taxes Own a long time in LA? Your gainCapital gain. What you sell for, minus what you paid and what you spent improving it. Part of it can be taxed. may be bigger than you think. Open → Can you keep your property tax bill? If you are 55 or older, Prop 19A California rule for people 55 and older. You may be able to take your low property tax bill with you to your next California home. may let you take it with you. Open → Fix it up now, pay at closing See what the right work adds before you list, and what it costs. Open →

What lands in your inbox

Kurt Mellinger works it by hand and sends it inside the hour. Here is what is in it.

  • Your real value range, built from homes that actually sold near you, with the addresses so you can check his work.
  • What you would take home after commission, closing costs and any loan you still owe. Your netNet proceeds. The money that reaches your bank account after every cost of selling comes out of the sale price., the money that reaches your bank.
  • The exact plan we'd use to sell it, walked through by Kurt in a short video.

Get your real number.

It costs nothing and it commits you to nothing. Read it, keep it, and call Kurt only if you want to. Most people who ask for one are not selling this year, and that is fine.

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