How to find listing date & Assorted questions?

HI All,

I've searched the forum but can't seem to find the answers to my questions,
Looking at buying but have limited funds (around $750k budget) & trying to get into Melb South East With the current market I was thinking about waiting a couple of months then putting a few lowball offers in on a places that would normally be a little bit outside my budget.

So I'm hoping someone can help with advising;
1. How do you find the date a property is listed?
2. How do you find the recent sale price i.e. the 6 most recent sales in Paskdale don't have the price. https://www.realestate.com.au/sold/...?activeSort=solddate&includeSurrounding=false
Or do I just need to ring the agents ?
3. What sites do you use for finding a property ? I'm currently using realeastate.com.au
4. Are agents still obligated to present all offers to the vendors ?

Thanks for the help.

Cheers
Mark

 

Pricefinder or RP data will have days on the market. You will need to get a subscription for those... unless someone here has an alternate recommendation.

 

I find that often Domain has the date of first listing in very fine print somewhere on the page. I often have to scroll around for a while to find it. Sometimes I can't find it though, which is weird.

Regarding the contact agent business, yep, you're gonna have to give them a call in my experience. If you wait for long enough (2-3 months), the prices will be available via Domain, Propertyvalue, Onthehouse etc, but it won't help you in the short term.

Best of luck!

 

1. Domain.com.au and realestate.com.au publish this data on the ad for each house, typically. For example, see the below image taken from a Domain lisitng, taken from here: 5 Hotham Street, Seddon VIC 3011 | Domain

Domain also include that same text for sold houses, eg: Sold 7 Ridge Road, Oak Park VIC 3046 on 08 May 2020 - 2016218633 | Domain


These links may also be helpful for you, to ascertain historical prices:
PriceData.Properties
Old Real Estate Listings

2. The agents may not tell you the price. A trick, though slightly technical, is to run a search of sold results from Domain. Then you manually can edit the URL to manipulate the price range and narrow down a result.
EG. Simply looking for all sold results in Seddon under $1.1 mill
671 Properties Sold & Auction Results in Seddon, VIC, 3011 | Domain

Shows this house from Biggin Scott where they chose not to disclose a sold price. By manually changing the sold price range I can narrow down the sold price to a small range. In this case, I manually changed the URL to a price range of 1.095mill to 1.095mill and it's the only result left, confirming it sold for exactly 1.095mill:
1 Property Sold & Auction Results in Seddon, VIC, 3011 | Domain


Good luck with your house search!

 

domain will show original listed price and date for a bit on a property report even after it's sold
most statements of info can still be recovered
i focking hate realestate.com because it annoyingly redirects you when you try to use google cache on it but a quick anti-redirect script should do the trick to find the old listing

 

Thanks @noobinator, I had forgotten there was some way to search for sold prices via Domain, and I didn't know how to do it quite so effectively either. Great post!