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Do you want to know DOM, original listing price or pending sales?
Here's a trick that may help potential buyers. But you need to plan ahead. If you have a very good agent, then you probably don't need this. But by profession, I like to find these information myself.
By default, realtor.com or any public website searches only active listings.
It doesn't show any pending sales, DOM or original listing price.
If you want these, here's what you can do.
1. Set up an account at realtor.com and specify a search criteria.
2. Receive RSS feed. The feed doesn't generate previous listings. You will only get feed for new listings. This is why you need to plan ahead.
3. When house hunting, if you find a house that interests you, check the house against your RSS feeds. You can find out when the house was listed (be cautious as it could be relisting) and the original listing price. If it's not in your data, then you can conclude that it was listed before the RSS feeds.
Here's a little game that I play myself or with my wife. It's just like SOLD OR NOT SOLD that Jay Leno played in his show.
I have 250 listings in my RSS feeds starting from 1/15/2008. I guess whether each listing is sold or not by looking at the price/address/sqft/bed/bath. When I click the link, if I can see the realtor.com listing, it means it's not sold yet. Otherwise, it's no longer listing. It can either mean sold or delisted. I'm now pretty good at this game.
Surprisingly enough, many of these new listings are sold. And this is S. Florida, arguably the coldest market. So there are some activities. If you are selling and you think there's no activity, then it's because of survivor bias. Specifically, you don't see the sold properties. You are comparing your property with other UNSOLD properties.
I think this is a good and fun exercise for the buyers with many strategic implications. If you don't know how it can be useful, ask me.
Do they have ziprealty.com in your area? If they do, you can sign up for an account, and it'll show all this information for the houses you are tracking without as much effort.
Do they have ziprealty.com in your area? If they do, you can sign up for an account, and it'll show all this information for the houses you are tracking without as much effort.
Thanks for the information. I should have known the website. I like it. It shows DOM and listed date.
But how do I search for pending sales?
Last edited by acegolfer; 04-13-2008 at 08:31 PM..
We have a local realtor that gives all this info on their site. It tells the days on the market and the price changes. We also have a site that tells the status of the listing.
Do you want to know DOM, original listing price or pending sales?
Here's a trick that may help potential buyers. But you need to plan ahead. If you have a very good agent, then you probably don't need this. But by profession, I like to find these information myself.
By default, realtor.com or any public website searches only active listings.
It doesn't show any pending sales, DOM or original listing price.
If you want these, here's what you can do.
1. Set up an account at realtor.com and specify a search criteria.
2. Receive RSS feed. The feed doesn't generate previous listings. You will only get feed for new listings. This is why you need to plan ahead.
3. When house hunting, if you find a house that interests you, check the house against your RSS feeds. You can find out when the house was listed (be cautious as it could be relisting) and the original listing price. If it's not in your data, then you can conclude that it was listed before the RSS feeds.
Here's a little game that I play myself or with my wife. It's just like SOLD OR NOT SOLD that Jay Leno played in his show.
I have 250 listings in my RSS feeds starting from 1/15/2008. I guess whether each listing is sold or not by looking at the price/address/sqft/bed/bath. When I click the link, if I can see the realtor.com listing, it means it's not sold yet. Otherwise, it's no longer listing. It can either mean sold or delisted. I'm now pretty good at this game.
Surprisingly enough, many of these new listings are sold. And this is S. Florida, arguably the coldest market. So there are some activities. If you are selling and you think there's no activity, then it's because of survivor bias. Specifically, you don't see the sold properties. You are comparing your property with other UNSOLD properties.
I think this is a good and fun exercise for the buyers with many strategic implications. If you don't know how it can be useful, ask me.
I have several clients set up on our local MLS "Listing Cart" which updates the listings nightly - not just showing new listings, but also showing price changes, status changes, and changes to the remarks section of existing listings. I get really positive feedback from my clients because it helps them easily keep up with our current market.
One negative, though, some clients have mistakenly thought that when a listing would appear with the comment "This listing is no longer available" that the home was under contract. However, many times the listing had either expired or was withdrawn. Sometimes even newer listings are withdrawn. Owners who don't really have to sell get quickly discouraged in a slow market. If they don't get (m)any showings at their ideal price, they just take the home off "until the market improves".
So just a caution - if the listing doesn't show up anymore on Realtor.com, it doesn't necessarily mean the listing has sold. You'd be surprised at the number of Withdrawns and Expireds right now.
It's true that "no longer available" doesn't necessarily mean sold. If I have access to the full MLS, then I can easily check the exact status. Unfortunately, I don't have that access. The only thing I can do is make an educated guess whether it was actually sold.
Does anyone know a public website that provides current status including "pending", "closed", "expired", "canceled", etc?
For example, I'd like to search only the PENDING/CLOSED properties in the last 6 months so that I can research the effect of listing prices. I know my agent can do this but I don't know whether I can.
I'm not here to blame realtors for not sharing the information. This data is proprietary and they deserve the right to use to their advantage. I'm just trying to find a feasible way to get indirect access.
Where is the RSS feed on realtor.com? I can't find it for searches...only for their blogs... Anybody help me?
I'm having the same problem. I signed up, but can't find the RSS feed.
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