H-E-L-P! Is There A Website For Finding ........ (Durham, Cary: sales, real estate)

[Jamerican]

Hello all,

Is there a website for finding information that should be public record about homes in Durham/Chapel Hill area? I have friends that live in Wake Forest and Cary and they were able to actually go to a website that would give you the following information about a property:-

1) The age of the property
2) What it was last sold for
3) The current and previous owner; and
4) The square footage and acreage of the lot etc.

When I asked about the website, they told me that depending on where I live it would be a different website, so the one used for Wake Forest would be different than the one for Durham or even Cary for that matter. Would anyone here, especially the realtors know of a site for Durham and Chapel Hill that I could use for the above-mentioned information?

[SunnyKayak]

google each city real estate lookup or search each cities website for real estate

[scorp200]

Yup! Durham:

Durham County Government : Real Property and Tax Bill Record Searches

Orange:

Welcome to Orange County,N.C. Property Search Website

[VickiR]

Originally Posted by scorp200

Yup! Durham:

Durham County Government : Real Property and Tax Bill Record Searches

Orange:

Welcome to Orange County,N.C. Property Search Website

Exactly! In NC, the Real Estate information that you asked about will be by County.

Cary and Wake Forest are both in Wake County so you should get that information from there.

However, there are parts of Wake Forest that are in Granville County and Franklin County, so for those properties, you'll need to determine which county the address is in and then search in that county's website.

Vicki

[Jamerican]

VivkiR/Scorp200,

I thank you very much for your help. SunnyKayak, I did search Google, but I must have used the wrong buzz words to find the right sites.

[coltank]

Also here GoMAPS - Durham County NC Public Access in Durham

[clj2]

This may help:

Real Estate Search

[Bull City Rising]

One more tip; at least for Durham -- you can use the Registrar of Deeds web site (Durham County Web Access) to lookup past sales once you know the owner from the tax search. You can pull up deeds to see when property transfers happened, by searching for current owner as grantee IIRC. Take the amount paid for the NC State Excise Tax and divide by .002 to figure out what the recorded sales price was. (Tax is $1 per $500 of valuation.)

Zillow, Trulia and the like will sometimes show recent sales; the Durham tax office web site will show sales since IIRC 2005-2006, so if you want to find older sales prices, you can impute the selling price through this method. Not sure how far back NC was charging this tax. I assume the tax rate is the same across NC but don't know that for sure.