Help me find the closing price for this house

[ktzmoh]

This house was on the market recently and it went pending almost right away. Then the sign changed to sold last week, and yesterday, the new family was moving in. However, redfin and the other sites still show it pending. There must be a way to find the final closing price somehow. It's been more than a week since it closed... is there any place i can find the closing price?

[emjacobs]

Are you sure that they actually closed last week? It's possible that they had an agreement to take possession prior to closing.

[mrs.jacinthe]

Our local newspaper publishes the property transfers for the previous week on Saturday. Check the newspaper's website? Or the GIS?

[njnester319]

Not sure if you have this but our weekly county newspaper shows the deeds filed with our county clerk.It usually takes a couple weeks or so to show up in the paper.

[ktzmoh]

Jul 25, 2013 10:45:32 GMT -5 emjacobs said:

Are you sure that they actually closed last week? It's possible that they had an agreement to take possession prior to closing.

Hm... well the realty sign switched from "Sale Pending" to "Sold" a couple of days before the family moved in, but I didn't even know it was possible to take possession prior to closing .

[ktzmoh]

Jul 25, 2013 10:50:13 GMT -5 @callmefia said:

We can find it on the property tax site. If you know the address, look it up. The paperwork sometimes takes a few days to process. If you know a nearby address but not the actual, put that in and click on all neighborhood sales to find out what has sold recently nearby.

I did check there using the parcel number (i found it on the listing)... the way CA works is that properties are assessed on Jan 1, and if a property sells during a year, it is not reassessed immediately, but homeowners get a prorated  supplemental tax bills based on the sale price. It took about a month for us to get our supplemental bill, so I'm guessing it'll take a bit for the tax collectors website to update. I guess I'm out of luck, but I'm dying to know. The other house near us wound up closing 35K over what I thought was a high  listing price, so we are really curious

[gtkim]

I use realtor.com to see the sales prices in my neighborhood.  You can put in the zip code and price range and look for recently sold.  It may take a few weeks to update but eventually it is there.

[emjacobs]

Jul 25, 2013 11:49:58 GMT -5 ktzmoh said:

Jul 25, 2013 10:45:32 GMT -5 emjacobs said:

Are you sure that they actually closed last week? It's possible that they had an agreement to take possession prior to closing.

Hm... well the realty sign switched from "Sale Pending" to "Sold" a couple of days before the family moved in, but I didn't even know it was possible to take possession prior to closing .

Yeah, essentially they rent the house from the owners for the time prior to the closing.  Happens when a family has to move on x date and the home is already empty.  Pretty common in this area. 

[sjh722]

County recorders office?

You can take possession pre-closing but here it's not terribly common, as you typically rent for an exorbitant rate from the previous homeowner and forfeit your EMD if it doesn't close.

[julygal]

I find our county's site takes a month or longer for the sale to post. I think Zillow often is faster in our area with getting the sold price up. For example, right now our county site has everything sold in May up. Zillow has what sold in June. No records of sales that took place in July are posted anywhere. Realtors are often the ones that can get that information while things are not quite public or in pending status. I know the realtor we spoke to today could tell us what the pending price was on homes in our neighborhood.

[sunshine608]

The first place to show our sold price was homesnap.com. I think it took like 2 weeks.

[sjh722]

Jul 25, 2013 14:04:29 GMT -5 julygal said:

I find our county's site takes a month or longer for the sale to post. I think Zillow often is faster in our area with getting the sold price up. For example, right now our county site has everything sold in May up. Zillow has what sold in June. No records of sales that took place in July are posted anywhere. Realtors are often the ones that can get that information while things are not quite public or in pending status. I know the realtor we spoke to today could tell us what the pending price was on homes in our neighborhood.

If it sold through the MLS the realtor should have it nearly immediately.

You could email your agent and ask - I get those from time to time.

[ktzmoh]

Thanks all. Redfin must have heard my frustration - they just updated this afternoon and I found the price. $32K over asking! Wowza.

That means our house has gained at least 20% in value (on paper of course, which we all know from the housing crash is *totally* the same as real money) in the year since we bought. Good thing we bought last year - we would have been priced out of the housing market again!