Check out Katherine Harris's house on Zillow! [View All]

Josh Marshall has been putting together the links tying Rep. Katherine Harris (R-FL) to disgraced former Rep. Duke Cunningham on Talking Points Memo. Today on their Muckracker site they reprinted an article from the Tallahassee Democrat on Harris's fishy home sale.

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/000078.php

According to the article, Harris bought the house in 1999 for $269K and then sold it for a cool half million profit this year. Well, ok, house prices have gone through the roof since 1999, but I decided to Zillow her house anyway (anyone who doesn't know www.zillow.com should stay ignorant - it's an easy way to waste a lot of time).

Here is the graph of her house's estimated value over the last 5 years with the sell dates and prices indicated:

(you will need to enter a security number on the screen to view the page):

http://www.zillow.com/Charts.z?chartDuration=5years&zpid=45619293

Curious. Not only are the dates of purchase and sale different from the article (according to Zillow, the house was bought in 2004 and sold in 2005), but check the difference between the prices and the estimated value (blue line)!

Well, maybe Zillow has their information wrong. Maybe. But here is Duke Cunningham's house. They got the date, the price, and the fact that it was sold suspiciously above market value right on.

http://www.zillow.com/Charts.z?chartDuration=5years&zpid=16764172

Somebody needs to verify those dates on Zillow. If they're right, then Harris has problems. Sorry, more problems.