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[Spooky23]

You don't really need machine learning to do comps. There are literally dozens of tools to do this accurately.

Zillow just sucks for a variety of reasons that have more to do with Zillow than anything else.

[wuliwong → Spooky23]

I think the difficulty is scaling the "art" of estimating prices. Any single home I could sit down and give a good estimate but to come up with a fully automated way to do that seems pretty tough still. I'm also not sure that the really hard parts are solved with ML as well.

[jdross → wuliwong]

I challenge you to come to Opendoor and beat the algorithm over a large set of homes :)