Recent Home Sales – Best Sources To Find Them?

If you are looking to sell your home in the near future or just want to get an idea of what your home would sell for if you were to place it on the market then finding out what homes in your neighborhood or immediate sorrounding area are selling for will give you a good idea.

The absolute best source to get good sales data comes from the MLS.

Now I understand you may not want to get hounded by agents especially if you don’t know whether you’ll be selling or not, so here are a few options.

You may try and find a real estate agent who focuses on commercial real estate and are more than likely not going to be interested in listing your home. Then ask to get a CMA in your area.

Another option would be to talk to a local title company and they have a pretty good database of homes that have sold. Their information is structured a bit different, but it is still useful.

There are sites like zillow, and trulia that may also have this information available, but it is not reliable.

Take into consideration pending home sales and active listings to really get an idea of what the market is doing. Pending home sales will let you know what buyers are looking at and making offers today. Active listings will let you know if the market is going up or down. If you see active listings selling for less than recent home sales than the market is going down. If you see them listed higher than recent home sales then the market is going up.

Another alternative would be to talk to a mortgage broker and ask for a CMA from them. They may do some for refinancing purposes and again, it’s not going to be accurate, but it will give you a good estimate.

Hope that helps.

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