<p>I was wondering if there is a way to ask my friend Mr. Google to help me find out how long a particular home has been on the market. I’ve heard that properties are sometimes pulled off the MLS and re-posted so they come up as new listings. Any thoughts as to how to find out when a home was first listed?</p>
<p>Ask neighors?</p>
<p>Ask the guys on the housing bubble blog.</p>
<p>Ask a realtor if you know one. They have more details on their MLS then the consumer does. It came up on all of the house information he would e-mail to me, but when I did a specific search on my own, that section was not included.</p>
<p>try Zillow . com</p>
<p>mominva, thanks for that Zillow tip! I’d never seen that website before - but it’s very helpful.</p>
<p>I believe that Pima, known as BulletandPima, is a realtor. You might want to PM her if she doesn’t show up on this thread.</p>
<p>Usually a listing will have a field called “DOM.” That stands for “Days on Market.”</p>
<p>Ask your realtor to do “address search” on that property. It will show the history of listing on that property like if it was listed but was “withrawn”, “cancelled”, or “expired”. It should show when it was listed on MLS and what happened with that MLS listing #. Remember, everytime an agent lists that property it could show up with a new MLS # .</p>
<p>[Real</a> Estate, Homes for Sale & Real Estate Values - Zillow](<a href=“http://www.zillow.com%5DReal”>http://www.zillow.com)</p>
<p>In the Seattle area and some other areas: [Find</a> All the Homes for Sale & Experienced Real Estate Agents | Redfin](<a href=“http://www.redfin.com%5DFind”>http://www.redfin.com)</p>
<p>In many west coast areas, the Windermere real estate site [Windermere</a> Real Estate](<a href=“http://www.windermere.com%5DWindermere”>http://www.windermere.com) has a lot of useful information and is easy to search, even if you’re using a different real estate agent.</p>
<p>Many cities allow you to search tax records, which is not the same thing, but will tell you how much someone owes on the property. If you’re looking for serious sellers whose houses have been on the market a long time, knowing how much they owe can tell you how much flexibility they have, or whether they might give the buyer a mortgage.</p>
<p>Licensed Realtor for 17 years…a couple of ideas: Zillow.com and Trulia.com will have homes posted that often are already sold and not yet dropped from their site. The values sometimes are dead on, and just as often way out of wack-either up or down. None the less, can be a good public resource.
Most companies, in California for instance, will post other companies homes for sale. Again-they may have already been sold-not always up to date. There is a site managed by the Realtors Association that the public has access to, and is culled more frequently: realtor.com. This site draws from the very same data bank that your Realtor has access to for business. For obvious reasons it does not have everything the realtor has access to, but enough for you to get a sense of what homes are available for sale.
DOM=Days on the Market, CDOM=Cumulative Days on the Market. In some areas it is required by the Realtors board to show the actual cumulative days on the market, even if the home has been represented by different firms/Realtors. Your Realtor also has the ability to assess the history of the home-including previous sales several years ago.
I hope this helps-APOL</p>
<p>Oh, wow, very helpful information and links! Thanks so much, everyone.</p>
<p>For VA, it is DOM and DOP. If a property comes off the market and re-listed with another agent you will never know how long it is on the market. I ma not sure why you are curious about how long it is on the market, since even for a CMA, there could be many reasons within the ineterior that it is on for a long time. Cat odor, purple paint, worn carpet, older kitchen etc. I would also not use it as a measuring stick to place a bid, b/c it also might have had many bid already put on it, but for financial reasons have drop dead number they have to get.</p>
<p>My recommendation is to contact the listing agent, they will be honest and give you some more background. Also don’t be worried that the agent is goin to harass you and try to sell you the home. If you are upfront and state the reason why they will not try to push you.</p>
<p>For VA people, the site you would want to go to is [HomesDatabase</a> - Home for Sale and Rent in DC, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania](<a href=“http://www.homesdatabase.com%5DHomesDatabase”>http://www.homesdatabase.com), that is public site that coordinates with the professional site.</p>