Perhaps people use the terms house evaluation and home value interchangeable, but there is a difference between them. The Edge Reference Price is an unbiased, independent estimate of individual home values and rent, using a proprietary formula. What I mean is that they seem to generate the historical home values for the house, town & zip code using the algorithm de jour, which has the effect of changing the entire historical record from what Zillow actually claimed in the past.
So let the following renovation rules, driven by shifts in the current housing market and informed by Consumer Reports’ nationally …