Home sale prices 24 hours after closing

You can now get details on a home sale just one day after closing on Realtor.com, according to a story on MarketWatch.com. Within 24 hours of a sale's closing, anybody with a computer can look at the sale price, property details, photos, and who the buyer's agent was.

The story says you can now do this for SoCal sales, implying they already provide this data for other markets. Check the site to see how much data they have for your neighborhood.

Consider the new search tool a way to conduct your own appraisal of your home, a neighbor's home, or homes in a neighborhood you are interested in moving to.

To find the recent sales data, go to Realtor.com, click on "Find Home Values," click on the state or region you are interested in, then zoom in really far until you see tiny red and green pinpoints. Each pinpoint has the data on one home. I had to zoom in about 5 times until they popped up.

The site also lets you sort the results for that neighborhood by sale price, sale date, number of bedrooms, bathrooms or square feet. You can also filter out certain homes for a more detailed search of their records.