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[QUOTE="texascpa, post: 2013132, member: 468"]
Not in Texas.  Texas is a non-disclosure state.  Only sales agents and banks can get to it.  While papers can, and annually do, provide average and range of home sale prices by zip code, they cannot publish specific properties with their actual sales price.  But, even then, they're using some arbitrary means to determine price.  That's why sites like Zillow use "Estimated" Price for homes in Texas.  they are using Tax value or some other calculated value rather than home sales price.

The reason is so property tax authorities can't jack up your assessed value based on home sale.  Additionally, they are also limited to 30% within a three year period, by law.

Years ago,  my wife worked for a advertising company that had associates go to specific homes and drop off advertising.  They focused on recent home sales valued a certain range.  However, even they couldn't get actual home sales prices.  They used the publish "for sale" price.
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