How to find home sale prices in Houston?
February 1st, 2010 | by admin |In places I’ve lived before, Florida and Ohio, a real estate’s sale price and sold date is public info and available on the county’s property appraiser’s website. The Harris county (i.e. Houston) appraiser’s website doesn’t show this info. I’m a real estate investor and need to get comps before I make offers on properties. I prefer not to go to a realtor yet. How can I get sale prices of homes and sold date in Houston without going to a realtor?
The reason we don’t disclose to the state government how much we paid for a property is because we have not trusted our state government ever. We think that they will use that information to tax real estate transactions.
We also don’t want them to have that information to use to up our property tax values- but they have found ways around that.
2 Responses to “How to find home sale prices in Houston?”
By teran_realtor on Feb 1, 2010 | Reply
In Texas, the recorded sale price is "$10 and other consideration". It’s a non-disclosure state. Best bet is to go to a Realtor.
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By glenn on Feb 1, 2010 | Reply
The reason we don’t disclose to the state government how much we paid for a property is because we have not trusted our state government ever. We think that they will use that information to tax real estate transactions.
We also don’t want them to have that information to use to up our property tax values- but they have found ways around that.
References :