Your username appears to indicate that you are in NY? If so, you can get sold property price info at your county clerk's office. (Presumably City Clerk, or whatever equivalent in NYC.)

You need to know address, or owners' -previous or new - to access the data. A few counties are on-line with a private service that you have to pay for. But there you also need the owners' names.

You could also ask at your local real property assessor's office. They may tell you if you catch them at a slack time. It's public info, but they are not set up to search for or dispense that data in bulk. Though come to think of it, you can buy computerized lists of assessment data by towns/cities and that shows recent sales, too.

BTW, if you look at county clerk's office, the prices may or may not be on the actual deeds. But there is a way to convert the tax paid data into the purchase price. Where I am it's $4 tax levied per thousand of sale price, so, for instance a tax of $40 is equal to each 10K of sale price.

And remember the recorded price may not accurately reflect concessions made by sellers, like paying buyers' closing costs or contributing to the downpayment.

HTH,

Molly~

We are in the process of selling our house and our agent did the comps. Houses don't move very much in our area which is an older neighborhood, so he had to access similar neighborhoods to get reliable comps, but they do it often and know what they're doing. Maybe better to let your agent do that.

Unless you live in a development where houses are similar and sell fairly frequently the first 5 or 10 years, after which the people tend to stay and houses don't move as often. At least that's what our agent told us.

Hi Jane, You were the lady who tried so hard to get the shelter to help that poor unlucky dog, aren't you?

In our area, you can go to the city's website and go to the Assessing Department page. There is a box to the right on the page that says "The City of Sterling Heights" and click on it. It takes you to a page where you can do property look-up. If you know the addresses of the properties you want to know about, you can find out what they sold for, what date, and who owns them. Now they even have a comparables search function where you can enter the sq ft, year, or price of what you are looking for and they will give addresses of houses that fit that description. See if your town has a similar web page. The interesting thing is that the hot link to the property look-up site is not marked as such, you just have to hover your cursor over various elements on the page and see if they become a link to the assessing info!

Here is a link that might be useful: My city's Office of Assessing page

In NYC there is lots of info on nyc.gov, broken down by neighborhood.

Here is a link that might be useful: NYC Property Sales

Yes Nancy, that is me. I can't even go there.

I fooled around with Zillow to see what was sold. It shows some under my zip-code, but doesn't tell you anything about the house. I took down addresses and may do some drivebys, but that doesn't tell me bedrooms, baths, etc.

I have lived in this house for 35 years and real estate went through the roof since then. Became an upscale area close to NYC. It's the Hillary, Martha, Letterman area. I only paid $70,000 for the house 35 yrs ago. Have done about $250,000 in updates over those years. Now I'm doing more to put it on the market. Hard to find comps and figure out how much more to put into the house.

I need that show about telling you what you should put in for the best return on your money. Very nervous about all this.

Thanks,
Jane