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The point of Zillow is to make it easier for buyers to become aware of properties for sale or rent, not to provide data that can skew the desire to even look at the property.
How do you know what the point of Zillow is?
I would think telling house hunters whether a home is in a flood plain or not might be relevant to at least some of them. As might crime statistics. As might quality of schools. There are lots of attributes a potential home owner might be interested in above and beyond “Is it made of wood, and how many bathrooms?”
For months now, I've been telling DH that putting this information, flood projections that has little to do with real risk in terms of probability, is Zillow and other websites inviting a class action lawsuit from those whose values have been tanked by the easy link to this data
How so? Posting accurate data is 100% defensible in court. If the data causes some casual viewers to misinterpret, well, that’s not Zillow’s fault.
