You will also never see original listing price against any any price reductions like you see on Zillow-

Ah. VLS does not provide tons of data a home shopper could get from other MLS services or other Internet real estate data based. Days on market is one as well as the closing price as VLS does not report transactions to realtor.com nor Zillow. Since the developer new home sales competes with pre owned sales, they feel too much public information can be detrimental to their sales.

The closing price and the date of the closing for all houses can be seen on the county real estate website.

Mls
 

You can see MLS listings, how long on market, pricing changes
Just go to Zillow or realtor.com also shows recent sales with selling price not listing price
You have to squeeze that info out of a village sales rep

Yes
 

Yes, it gives the numbers no one can dispute. When spending large amounts of money on a home, it’s worth the 10 minutes to figure out.

There are actually two calculations for "days on market" that the real estate industry tracks:

"Days on Market (DOM) provides a look at how long the current listing has been actively marketed. This is the time when buyers can view the listing online and make offers on the property. It starts and stops calculating, depending on the statuses you use throughout the life of your listing.

The Cumulative Days on Market (CDOM) offers a more comprehensive view of how long the property has been actively marketed. It provides the sum of Days on Market for all listings associated with the same property, when the listing is expired or withdrawn and relisted multiple times by any office, and when there are 60 days or less between the end of one listing and the start of another."

Whenever I have asked an agent for information about the CDOM, they have avoided my question by claiming that they don't know. This is the information that some selling agents do not want potential buyers to know about because a house that has been on the market for a long time is harder to sell.

Compare the VLS number to the latest ones listed, that will give you a pretty good idea.

I see, so you just enter in the info manually as listings post? That's a pretty good idea and one I've contemplated myself. Sure beats trying to remember a date range for a VLS number range with my fading brain capacity.

Buying a home?
 

No better source of info than the owner(s).
Contact source? Villages Directory, neighbors, Google Serach, Mail Property Card address (and others).
PS* As previously posted, please don't sign a Buyers Broker Agreement. One provision is that you would owe that Realtor a Buyers Broker Commission, whether you buy from them or not!

VLS Listings
 

Where did you find this spreadsheet? I would love to be able to create the spreadsheet.

They publish quarterly data (market reports), so I wouldn't say they are secretive.

Get the address off the listing and google Zillow.com. It will show original date of purchase, first time on market, how many times listed and removed,, prices of each time listed and property taxes.

No, it is linked to the VLS. If you are proficient in Excel it isn't difficult, and refreshing the data is automatic.

I can email you the Excel, send me a PM with your address.

IMHO and in my experience when buying, it DOES make a difference (in most cases, I'm sure there are exceptions). For instance, rather than just "spit in the wind), homes for sale for 3 months or more are much more likely be open to a "low ball" as you term it, offer.

That's why I LOVE Zillow over the properties of the VILLAGES site. They tell you exactly how long the property has been on the market, AND also have a complete history tab so you can see exactly how many times it has been bought and sold, the price paid, etc. etc. And, so MANY other aspects (details) the Villages homes for sale lacks. I hate having to call for every little detail that could be easily included by using a format similar to Zillow's.