Friday, April 18, 2008

 

No more sales data from HCAD

Texas is already a bad state to be a real estate investor without a realtor license. Now it's even worse. For years, the Houston Association of Realtors (HAR) has released sales data annually to HCAD. No more. Below is an e-mail exchange I had with HCAD on the matter:

From: Morgan Brown [mailto:morganpbrown@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2008 7:22 PM
To: pdata
Subject: Are you releasing HAR sales data anymore?

Hi,

Could you please tell me if HCAD is still releasing sales data from the HAR? And if so, when will the 2007 sales be released?

Thanks,
Morgan
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Dear Sir or Madam:

No.

HB 2188, a new Texas law that became effective June 18, 2007, makes confidential any information about properties that an appraisal district obtained from private sources. Because of this change in law, we are no longer able to display on this website property sales information we have obtained from private sources.

If you file for a protest online, sales & evidence HCAD uses should be available online about 15-20 days before hearing date.

For more information about online protest filing, please go to http://www.hcad.org/pdf/ifile_faq.pdf

Thank you,

HCAD Webmaster


Funny--they'll put sales data online if you're protesting your taxes, but they won't put sales data online. ??? We here at VoxProperty.com suggest you call your local congressman and congratulate him or her for keeping Texas in the real estate dark ages.



# posted by Morgan Brown @ 7:40 AM 2 comments

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