You can take in the picturesque canal house architecture: The rows of neat, narrow four-story dwellings of brownstone with large windows are well worth seeing.

你可以看到风景如画的运河屋建筑：一排排整洁狭窄的四层褐石住宅，带着大窗户，非常值得一看。

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It looks at past sales of houses that are similar to yours and then guesses what your house is worth.

它观察与你的类似的已经成交的房屋，然后估计你房屋的价值。

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Moving closer to the city isn't an option, since I bought my house at the peak of the real estate boom and now owe more on it than it's worth in this market.

可是我当初在镇上买房子的时候正值房地产市场的高峰期，现在的房价已经远低于当时，所以我又不能搬到城区。

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Moreover, some 11.3m homeowners with a mortgage, 24% of the total, owe more than their house is worth, putting them at greater risk of delinquency.

ECONOMIST: The housing market

There are many other free ways to get a general sense of what your house is worth, including various web-based automated home-price estimators that rely on recent sales.

WSJ: Are Sellers' Appraisals and Inspections Overkill?--WSJ House Talk

This index, which The Economist has long used in its quarterly round-up of global house prices, suggests American homes were worth 4.3% more in the first quarter of 2007 than they were a year earlier.

ECONOMIST: America's housing market is no longer booming