Automatically determining a current value for a real estate property, such as a home, that is tailored to input from a human user, such as its owner

A method in a computing system for refining an automatic valuation of a distinguished home based upon input from a user knowledgeable about the distinguished home, comprising:

• on the first day, obtaining user input adjusting at least one aspect of information about the distinguished home used in the automatic valuation of the distinguished home;
• automatically determining a refined valuation of the distinguished home that is based on the adjustment of the obtained user input;
• and
• presenting the refined valuation of the distinguished home on a second day that is later than the first day.

One or more computer memories collectively containing a home valuation data structure, comprising:

• information identifying a home;
• a valuation for the identified home automatically generated based on both information about the identified home obtained from a public source and information about the identified home obtained from an owner of the identified home;
• and
• information specifying a level of access, such that the contents of the data structure may be used to present the value of the identified house subsequent to the storage of the data structure in accordance with the specified level of access.