Comparable sales
Finding comparable sales
How to find relevant comparable sales and bring them into your report.
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Comparable sales are the backbone of a sales-comparison approach. The goal is to find sales that genuinely inform the subject’s value and bring them in cleanly.
Start from connected data
Navigate your MLS yourself and explicitly capture permitted listings. Compare draft listing and sales fields against the retained screenshot and page details before using them as comparables. Public records are a separate source; resolve disagreements rather than silently overwriting either record.
Choose for relevance, and document why
Pick comps because they are genuinely comparable, not because they are convenient. When a choice needs explaining — an unusual comp, a thin market — a short note on why you relied on it is far more defensible than leaving the reasoning unstated. From here, see “Making adjustments.”