Relists

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Relists bother me. I think buyers should know a house's true number of days on market and when a house gets relisted, that stat gets distorted.

So if you come across a relist and have the time, post it to this thread. Maybe someone looking to buy that house will come across this information and appreciate it.

Generally you can querry the address in Google and then used cached pages to find the older listing. Once you have the MLS you can querry on "MLS Seattle <MLS Number>" and sometimes get better results.

Realtors must hate Google's cache.

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4405 NE 60th St
Seattle, WA 98115

Old MLS:
Date: 7-16-2007 ()
$575,000

New MLS:
Date: 8-9-2007
$550,000

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360 Halladay
Seattle, WA 98109

Older MLS:
$1,025,000
Date: unknown

Old MLS:
$945,000
Date: unknown

New MLS:
$919,000
Date: 8-10-07

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6221 NE Princeton Way
Seattle, WA 98115

Old MLS:
Date: Mid April 2007 ()
$ 1,170,000

Old MLS:
Date: 8-01-2007
$1,099,900

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Good tip about Google cache. I run into relists all the time, and they would appear, if I'd just moved to Seattle from Omaha, to be brand new listings.

I am fortunately someone with a pretty good memory, and can piece together how long it's been. But yes, it's a deceptive practice. Another one I've seen is reducing the price of a listing by $50 or $100. The nominal reduction doesn't hurt the seller, but allows the listing to pop up as
PRICE REDUCED! and someone who doesn't know will think, 'wow, I'm getting a deal here'

[oddvan]

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[biliruben]

, listed at 600K, 2040 sq ft.

Originally listed at 638K back in the middle of July as 3060 sq ft. I guess they decide that listing a musty basement as legit sq footage was turning people off.

I actually really like the house and location, but it would take a ton of work/money to get into shape. If they knocked another 100K off I'd consider it.