Hi TB
A laborious task, but can be obtained by Google searching the property history sites, street by street - and possibly suburbs. Also you might like to search your States Valuer Generals site or Titles Office. Not that I have tried the latter avenues, given I closely monitor areas of interest on a day to day basis. As for properties currently for sale, the usual RE sites are as good as it gets. If you have been religiously watching an area for 3 years (putting properties for sale on your watch list and monitoring sales) you should have a pretty good idea of the ebb and flow, and mood of the market. That is my method. Hard to imagine the days before the RE sales/history sites. When the internet matured (back in the day) agents were able to pay a fee to the respective Valuer Generals office to have access to past sale prices (privacy be damned, then, as it is now). Today, everyone can find out what a subject property sold for, so makes for an exacting public research tool. Besides the point, but I have some reservations about this breach of privacy for numerous reasons - the main one being that it takes no account of property improvements when a vendor goes to sell. but that's another story.
