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In response to "Anyone have lots of experience buying houses? It's effing *stressful*." by JaxSean

Generally speaking, sites like Zillow should show you (and your realtor should also) comparable houses to the one you are buying. Especially around

Posted by oblique (aka kkuphal) Dec 3 '18, 09:43

here, a neighborhood is basically full of copy-cat homes so it is pretty easy to look up what the other homes around the one you're looking at have sold for. You can then start to do some simple calculations to see if anything is +/- about yours vs. that one (additions, updates, etc.)

It's been 20+ years since we bought ours but it was our second. I don't recall stressing out about the pricing much as we mostly took our realtors advice. I'd only really be concerned if things like the inspection showed something notable that really needed updating/replacing (like roof, furnace, etc.) in the very near future and might try to knock down the purchase price some based on that knowing I was going to have to shell out soon.

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We want to pay below what Zillow is showing, so... - JaxSean Dec 3, 09:56 1
- So... good luck! -- nm - Roger More Dec 3, 09:57
Also recognize that sites like Zillow are not perfect - Strongbad Dec 3, 09:46

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