Vermont Real Estate Sales Data - Vermont Real Estate Appraisals and Home Values


	How Our Clients Use This Web Site This section lists how our clients typically use this Web site. This will give you a good idea on how you can best utilize this site for your needs. Please be sure to also read some of our client testimonials. Appraisers, Assessors, & Listers Realtors & Brokers Real Estate Buyers Real Estate Sellers Property Tax Appeals Newspapers & Publications Marketing & Advertising Town Clerks Bankers & Lenders Attorneys & Paralegals Land Surveyors Title Insurers Debt Collectors Local & State Officials Appraisers, Assessors, & Listers Appraisers, assessors, or listers obviously need to keep track of local real estate sales in order to determine a fair value at which to appraise real estate. Appraisers can use this site to easily find comparables (comps) of properties that they are currently appraising. Listers can use this site to compare the sales price with the Grand List value to determine the difference between market value and appraised value. Best of all, this Web site covers the entire State of Vermont, so appraisers can find comps for any town in Vermont. Realtors & Brokers Realtors or real estate brokers in Vermont can use this site to track the latest real estate sales and trends in their local area. This Web site is typically updated weekly with new listings, providing timely information about the real estate market. Realtors can use this information to help determine the sales price for their listings, and to spot trends and factors affecting the market. Furthermore, this Web site allows realtors to keep track of FSBO's (For Sale By Owner), or other private sales, which account for a large percentage of sales in Vermont, but are not listed in the Multiple Listing Service (MLS). Having a searchable Web site with all this information certainly saves a lot of time digging through paper records at the Town Clerk's office. Real Estate Buyers Those interested in buying real estate in Vermont can use this site to determine the fair market value of property in the area they want to buy. Buyers can determine the price that the owner originally paid for the property, as well as the price of neighboring or similar properties. Buyers can determine the value of comparable properties (comps) in any town in the State of Vermont. In fact, the resources on this Web site will give buyers as much information as real estate professionals themselves have about market conditions. This is the next best thing to MLS data which is restricted to realtors only. With this information, buyers can then set their offer price at a fair value, and not worry about overbidding. The subscription fee for this site is trivial compared the the savings buyers can realize by researching prices on this Web site. Real Estate Sellers Those that are selling real estate in Vermont can use this site to set the sales price of their property. Sellers can look up the values of adjoining property, as well as the values of other comparable properties in their neighborhood. They can then compare the sales price with the appraised value of the property to see what type of markup is possible. Sellers can then set the price of their property at a value they think the market will bear, thus maximizing their profit. This is helpful for sellers whether they are working with a realtor, or selling the house on their own (For Sale By Owner). Property Tax Appeals If you are appealing your Vermont property taxes, you can use this site to look up appraised and Grand List values of comparable properties (comps) to your own. You can then determine if your property is appraised fairly compared to these comparables. Using such comparables are often the basis for successful property tax appeals by property owners. Newspapers & Publications Many newspapers use this Web site to look up and print information on real estate sales in their local coverage area. This information is of great interest to readers and often appears in the real estate section of the newspaper. Other publications that deal with real estate in Vermont, use the information on this Web site to inform their readers about real estate sales and trends in Vermont. Marketing & Advertising You can use this Web site to market your business to all the new residents in your local neighborhood. Simply find the real estate transactions that have occurred recently in your neighborhood, and then collect the names and addresses of the new residents. Our export features allow you to easily import the data into your database or mail merge program. You can then send out your marketing and advertising materials to these potential new customers! Town Clerks Town Clerks can use this site to help them find records that they have on file. Clerks can perform a search to find the records that they need, and then view the recording information for each record to find which book it is recorded in. Town Clerks can use this Web site for internal purposes, or they can offer the services to members of the public that request information. Bankers & Lenders Financial institutions such as bankers and lenders often need to evaluate the fair market value of property that they are issuing loans for. Using this Web site, lenders can easily find comparables (comps) of properties that are similar to the property in question. This information can then be used to assess the risk of the loan. Lenders can also use this site to help evaluate the credit worthiness of a particular applicant, by reviewing their past real estate transactions. Debt collectors can search for transactions that involve the debtor. Attorneys & Paralegals Real estate attorneys and paralegals often need to research and verify the legal ownership and title of a property. A good place to begin this research is with this Web site. Attorneys can use this site to research the lineage of a given property, and to easily locate where the documents were recorded. Most real estate transaction in this site, list the recording date, recording town, as well as the book and page number in which the document was recorded. Using the Favorites feature of this site, all the information about a property can be stored in one convenient location, and then printed out in preparation for the trip to the Town Clerk's office. Once there, attorneys can easily locate the records they need since they already know where it is filed. They can even log onto this Web site at the Clerk's office to do additional research if necessary! Land Surveyors Land surveyors often need to locate land records such as site plans or boundary surveys associated with a given property. The land records of abutting properties are also required in many circumstances. Surveyors can use this Web site to help locate these records. First they can search this site to find the properties of interest to them. For each property, they can then determine where it is recorded by viewing the recording date, town, book number, and page number. They can then bring this information with them on their next trip to the Town Clerk's office to quickly find these records. Title Insurers Title insurers also research land records extensively to discover the legal ownership and title of property. Insurers can use this web site to help find the required records they need to search for when visiting the Town's Clerk office. Most records state where the transaction was recorded, the date it was recorded, as well as the book number and page number in which it was recorded. This information can then be used at the Clerk's office to quickly find the records needed. Debt Collectors Debt collectors can use this site to search for a debtor's property or other unknown assets. A simple search of the debtor's name will locate all real estate transactions that the debtor has made. Viewing each transaction will display the value of the transaction, as well as all the participants involved. Local & State Officials Local and state officials can use this site to analyze real estate sales in their locality. Officials may be interested in the price of homes in their area. They may want to see how much affordable housing is available in their area. They may want to determine the amount of Transfer Tax that is generated in their town. Or, they may just want to see how the sales prices compare with the Grand List values for their town. Top Of Page