Zillow talk

"What's the best way to spot the next best neighborhood? Is spring or the dead of winter the best time to put your home on the market? Do street names affect price (Swamp Road vs. Gingerbread Lane)? These are the type of real estate truisms that we all think we know the answers to, but we don't. The rules of real estate have changed dramatically in the past five years, and the old rules no longer apply. Enter Zillow, the nation's #1 real estate web site with more than 37 million users each month. Thanks to a treasure trove of proprietary data and a quirky chief economist in Stan Humphries,…