How can a person find the last selling price of a house he is looking at?
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The easiest is to use www.zillow.com (after you get to the summry screen for the address, then click on the street address to get a more detailed page, then click on the "Sales, Taxes and Comparables" link) - if the zillow.com site is not current enough then the answer  depends on what city / county to reside in.
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Most city governments have a website that will tell you what the property taxes are on each address in the city along with how many square feet in the house and property and their value or the price the house last sold at.  Once you have info about the house, you can look online to see what other houses in a similar neighborhood of a similar size and quality are selling for.
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Well, if you would like to know the prices because you want to sell your home and would like to get a price for yours, then their are a couple of ways.\n\n1)Contact a Realtor and ask him to give you a report.\nGood) You get a good report for free.\nBad) He will be contacting you for months to come.\n\n2)Contact a Title, or Escrow company and tell them you want to sell your home and would like info on homes near you that have sold in the past months.  \nGood) Who better to give you info than a title or escrow company.  Really reliable.\nBad) Some companies give it to you for free hoping you use them, but some do sell it to you for up to 70 bucks.
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That is a tough one to answer on the basis that you would not want to live anywhere, e.g. cheapest is probably next to a nuclear power station and I doubt you would want that.\n\nI would start by selecting the areas you like.  Then for each of these find out what the local property prices are.  One useful site to help find the recently sold prices is ourproperty.com.  I do not have any affiliation with them but find it a useful site to look up property prices that people have paid - not want estate agents ask for.\n\nGood luck with your search.
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I reckon your best bet is to check a website that mines data from the Land Registry to get the house prices.\n\nIt'll help if you have an area or postcode in mind. Also contact the Land Registry and see if they can point you in the right direction.\n\nhttp://www.landreg.gov.uk/houseprices/
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you go to the county that the camp is in and find the bureau of vital statistics and or the county clerks office .you can find what the recorded purchase price was.to find the original appraised price you would have to know the appraiser.it sounds like if it is a camp that the county might not be that big and you could find out the appraisers i that county.
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Check out craigslist.org for a ton of listings. You can get a good idea how much it'd cost and the current going market rate.
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It depends on what you mean by a little bit. I would save up  five hundred and go to the county clerks office and get a copy of the property tax list what houses that had tax leins on them or were forclosed. Then go when the auction is scheduled and bid on a house that you want (you can get one for as little as 100 dollars if no one bids higher) fix the house up and 'flip' it. you could sell it outright, rent it out. If you are willing to get in there and get a good deal, it really isn't too good to be true. Give it a try. First step is to go to the county tax clerk office and take a look at the houses and auction dates/times. Good luck.
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go to ur local appraisal office.
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Call the assessor's office in which the property is located.  This is public information and generally they will tell you over the phone.  Most on-line resources are months behind posting any information.  A little more difficult to obtain the information but the first one who has it is the Register of Deeds office.  You will be given a tax which you need to figure the sales price from.
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Go to the County Assessor's Office that governs Long Beach, and ask the sales analyst to look up recent sales for you.  It is a public service...they have to provide it, and it IS a matter of public record.  You may have to pay a samll fee, or they may be able to set you up at a computer in their public area to look it up yourself.
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Property sales are a matter of public record, so you should be able to find out.  The question is, how hard is that?\n\nMore and more taxing authorities are putting property information on the web.  I live in New York, and counties are the primary property tax authority.  They have some fairly detailed property information, but sale prices only seem to be available for a few months after a sale closes. You should investigate whether your local authority maintains those records on the web.
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yes... but i think you may only be able to get a "copy" of it... not the officially binding deed record.  But yeah... if you look hard enough, you may even be able to find out how much the owner paid for it.
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if you want to know who owned the property, check with the municipality.  if you need a notarized copy attesting to that, the town should know who notarized the sale.  they might not have a copy but you can try and find if the notary is still in business and has the records
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I agree, you need an appraiser.  Info on those websites is mostly based on loan records, and often has highly inaccurate info.  For example, zillow.com shows the value of my house with the amount it was foreclosed on over a year ago because we paid cash for it. and bofa.com shows the same house being 30 years older than it actually is.  None of those sites will have accurate info.  An appraiser will walk the property inside & out, make note of all things that add or detract from the value, and do a comparison of similar properties in the area.
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I agree about checking out Ebay and looking at completed listings.\n\nYou could also get an estimate from an antique book dealer - check Yahoo Yellow Pages for your local area.\n\nOr check out Bookfinder and plug in the title of your book. It will give you an idea what dealers are charging for your titles.
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Try FSBO's, or expired listings