Determine is listing is still active

[sp0oon]

I am wondering if there's a way to determine if a listing is still active from accessing the PropertyDetails endpoint?

I am able to view information from previously sold houses but there's nothing in the API response telling me that it's been sold. If I go to realtor.ca and try to view the listing I can see that the listing has been removed/sold.

Any advice? Thanks

[Froren]

hey @sp0oon that's an interesting case. I'm having trouble finding listings on the website that have been sold, do you have any links that I could dive into?

[Teiwaz83]

I think the issue may be the difference between a property being de-facto sold and the listing closed. In hot markets, a house will sell 3-7 days after listing, in the sense that an offer will be made and accepted on it. However, the listing doesn't close until the ownership actually changes hands - which requires financing, inspection, etc etc and that process can easily take 1-2 months. So any property that isn't a brand new or updated listing only has a 5-10% chance to actually still be available. Realtors have access to whether properties have an accepted offer on them (if the selling agent has bothered to update the state, and they often don't). This information is intentionally denied to the public... so either you need to get a buyer's agent and go through them, or you have to contact the selling agent yourself, which gives them a chance to try to snag you into another property they've listed. (Remember, the site's purpose is to drive business to the cartel, not provide you with the information you need to buy a house yourself.) It's possible that that data is leaking out in the property details, but I certainly don't see anything that looks like it in the data.