[Schaumburger]

On the pre-owned home listings on The Villages' web site, there is a section called "Recently Added Listings" which contains 24 of the newest listings. Is there any way on The Villages' web site to determine how long a house has been for sale? On the MLS web site, the number of days a home has been listed can be pretty easily found, wondering if there was a way to find out this info. on The Villages' web site.

[twinklesweep]

Originally Posted by Schaumburger

On the pre-owned home listings on The Villages' web site, there is a section called "Recently Added Listings" which contains 24 of the newest listings. Is there any way on The Villages' web site to determine how long a house has been for sale? On the MLS web site, the number of days a home has been listed can be pretty easily found, wondering if there was a way to find out this info. on The Villages' web site.

Yes, you can do this approximately, and it requires a bit of longer-term "study," by watching the listing numbers. Note a number from a recently added listing, and you know that number is now. Immediately, if nothing else, you can tell relatively which listings are newer, which are older. But if you follow this over time, you can estimate more precisely. While not as precise as number of days a home has been on the market, it still does help. Hope this helps!

[gomoho]

My best recollection is they started with the 213 series of number starting this year. So anything starting with 212 is probably from last year. An older listing in TV doesn't necessarily equate to what we know about real estate outside the bubble.

[billybye]

I believe that when a price is reduced, it again become a new listing.
This hides the actual total listing time and how long it really might take for a property to sell.
Makes it look like TV listings always sell without a price reduction ever.

[Jim 9922]

A new listing number as assigned when the orginal listing expires and it is relisted. That helps to hide the "dogs" and overpriced.

To age a listing you can do "guesstimate" back by noting the current listing numbers and assume they add about 125 new lisings a month. That is about what they sell each month and their inventory seems to remain relatively steady.

[asianthree]

our friends house was listed three times with different numbers...deals feel thru so relisted