If you are trying to negotiate a price for a pre-owned house, two good sources of information are the county real estate web site and Zillow.com. The county site will tell you when the house was built and how much all of the owners paid for it and what the nearby houses sold for. Zillow will tell you similar information, but will also tell you about prior listings of the house. For example, the agent may tell you that the house has only been on the market for 2 weeks, but Zillow may show that the house was listed several times within the past year and removed from the market because it didn't sell.
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