Brian at Trulia Clears Things Up
I've been trying to find a complete source for recently sold home data for awhile now. I thought I'd be able to find a complete source online with all the cool new real estate 2.0 sites popping up everywhere.
About a week ago I posted my frustration with not being able to find good recently sold data online, specifically complete data on 6000-9000 sq ft homes sold in my local market in the past 12 months.
Brian at Trulia left a nice comment clearing up my issues with using Trulia's market trend tool.
With that said, let me get back to a complete source for recently sold homes data.
Using Trulia, one home is found when using search refinements "recently sold" and "6000-9000 sq ft".
Take a look:
So, this tells me that either the local market for selling 6000-9000 sq ft homes is really bad or recently sold data feeds from my local market are hard to come by.
I'm guessing its a mix of both.
Brian at Trulia got an email from me saying:
"I can't wait to how your "recently sold data" tools evolve as real estate data feeds are standardized for the industry in the coming years. For instance, seeing complete data for all 6000-9000 sq ft recently sold homes in Santa Rosa, CA for the past 12 months would be highly valuable (I know your "refine your search" tool already kind of does this)."
I'm really excited about standardized real estate data sweeping across the real estate industry because it will be good for developers, homebuyers, agents and mortgage lenders etc.
Trulia and other real estate 2.0 sites like Zillow and Yahoo! are leading the push for the adoption of standardized real estate data feeds.
Read more about the push for industry-wide standardized data feeds over on the GeekEstate blog here and here.
