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I'm skeptical. You average user of Zillow today has no clue how off it is on price very often.
These apps are useful but in most cases my friends in real estate will tell you that it is wildly off. A good agent will run comps manually and even those estimates are often off. It's all guess work until someone actually puts down an offer.
And so much of what a house will go for is not data based. Presentation, irrational thinking, and fear play in. If you all are talking about betting markets on individual houses sale price I am skeptical. Not that someone would bet, but that it would have utility.
Agree that so much of real estate is non-rational and qualitative. People get very emotional when selling or buying a house.
I would also be skeptical of a prediction market if it were to be specific to individual houses. As you mention, comps absolutely matter because they take those hyper-local factors into account. Each house is unique, and the price is ultimately whatever a buyer is willing to pay.
Having a real-time macro signal for a whole city could potentially help people better understand market dynamics, but I’d agree that every house needs to be priced individually.
Being able to embed external prediction markets into relevant apps could bridge that gap