WIDGET UPDATE: Since the pricing widget has now been up and running for exactly six months, we spent a little time yesterday looking at some data to try to see if it has any predictive ability. We came up with a list of twelve properties that had been both subjected to the widget treatment and gone on to sell. The findings were quite interesting: In every single case, the average predicted selling price fell short of the actual selling price. The interesting thing was the consistent range by which the widget underpriced. The widget price was between 9.4% and 19.8% under the ultimate selling price; on average the widget underpriced by about 14%. So we’re going to create a second-generation widget that shows average and median predictions as well as a predicted selling price based on the historical track record. Hopefully that’ll get done in the next couple of weeks. The twelve data points are listed below. P.S. If any reader would like to become the official keeper of the widget spreadsheet and try to keep an eye on this stuff, we’d be more than happy to hand it off!