Is there a way to search public records online and learn the price a particular home sold for in my area?
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I use http://www.HomePriceMaps.com to search for realty prices by zipcode and/or city. Also-if you don't see any data for your area you can email them your info and they will quickly post home data for your area and email you within a day or two. pretty convenient.
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Call the assessor's office in which the property is located.  This is public information and generally they will tell you over the phone.  Most on-line resources are months behind posting any information.  A little more difficult to obtain the information but the first one who has it is the Register of Deeds office.  You will be given a tax which you need to figure the sales price from.
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Hi, there is a site called hometrack that tells you the price any house was bought for. So you can see how much the house was orginally bought for and how much the houses in the street was bought for and when. I have helped people buy and sell and this site is a very helpful tool because you can also find out more indepth information about any property you are interested in.
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check with your county's appraisal district.  They maintain that kind of information.
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www.realtor.com will give you listing prices of homes in a particular area, however, it doesn't give you sold prices or times.  Is that what you are looking for?
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i did this... i just searched houses for sale and clicked on some listings. then i'd put the zip code for where you are lookingg and type in square feet and stuff. good luck
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Most city governments have a website that will tell you what the property taxes are on each address in the city along with how many square feet in the house and property and their value or the price the house last sold at.  Once you have info about the house, you can look online to see what other houses in a similar neighborhood of a similar size and quality are selling for.
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you can try realtor.com
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your county tax records office.  Also try www.zillow.com, enter an address, it shows all the sales in the surrounding area.
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i use http://www.HomePriceMaps.com to see how much homes sold for in a particular city or zipcode.  Also-if you don't see your area or zipcode I have found that if you email HomePriceMaps.com they usually update the site with your information with a day or two.
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try www.zillow.com.  they had my house from a satellite pic.
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If you know where the property is you could get the info from the county clerk or county assessor's office.
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It's called Zillow and here is the link.\nhttp://zillow.com/
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You can go to the city or county web site and get stats for crime...In the city I live in (pretty big city) there is information by zip code, then by neighborhood. It really helps determine a houses resale value also.\nHope that helps.
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Ask any realtor.  This information is readily available to them.  The title or deed for the house lists all of the previous owners, what improvements were made (such as when structures on the land were built), and dated records of how much it was sold for.  I believe there is a way to obtain this information from your county's courthouse as well.
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Yes, go to Homefindinginfo.com and then click on "real estate agents click here" link.  Then choose "agent resources".  There is a link on that page which will give you the search option for all court records for the 50 states.  It's free.
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You can't.  Websites like zillow & bofa are not at all accurate.  For example, zillow uses loan info.  We paid cash for our house, so it shows the last thing it could find which is the foreclosure from the previous owner in May of 2004.  My neighbor paid 1/2 cash and financed the other 1/2 of her house (just 2 months ago) and sure enough zillow values her house for the exact 1/2 that she financed.  Nothing to do with market conditions in either case.  bofa.com shows my house being 30 years older than it actually is, and once again the estimate that it gave had nothing to do with market conditions.  homefindinginfo makes you fill out a form, and I still haven't heard back from them.  You could have a Realtor come by and have them give you a rough idea of what you might price it at if you were going to list it.  They would do that for free.\n\nIt has been over 26 hours since I submitted my request to homefindinginfo.com, and I still have not heard back from them.