I find it fascinating that I can review what each person paid for their condo (or at least, who has their mortgage and the total loan amount) on our county website.

I expected the men to have paid less than the women, but that turns out not to be the case, refreshingly.

You sexist!

I will be suppressing the fruit of my gathering at the next meeting.

" So nice to meet you after having inspected your financial history--so nice'n'neat. So, Jim, I see you got divorced in 2007 and you gave the wife your house in X suburb at no cost. Also, how's your daughter, Skyler doing?"

Creepy, but funny.

LOL. 

I think I should put a decent front end on that site. Crazy trying to put two and two together, cross-reference, re-enter the same damn numbers to get slightly different info groupings. 

Maybe I'll make a screen-scrape of that and put some ads up for it and try my hand at SEO.  bleh.  Who am I kidding. I'm too lazy.

Real estate transfers, sales prices and mortgage transactions are a matter of public record. I just think it's funny that most people don't realize this and most people are incredibly sensitive about this stuff.

Zillow and Trulia both scrape the auditor/county recorder data and display a lot of real property values, so that's a shortcut.

>I expected the men to have paid less than the women, but that
>turns out not to be the case, refreshingly.

Why??

I found in the London flatshare market there was anything up to a 15% premium on being a woman. Women wanted to share with other women because they were safer, and men wanted to share with other women because they thought they might get sex.

Given that the rent went all the way up to $1,200 / month in that market, that was a pretty high premium.

Men are better at negotiating.

Bored By:

I saw the info on Zillow but it didn't attach the names, that I recall.  Also, it didn't list the bank.

Americans don't negotiate.

Women are better shoppers.

>Men are better at negotiating.

I read somewhere that that accounted for a 1% difference in the relative pay of men and women, and the rest of the difference came from either the risk or the realization of women having babies.

Not sure if that's true or not, but it would give a compelling case for apartment negotiation being more equal.

I find that Zillow is about 5% higher than actual market.

Which will be great when it comes time to sell the house in Raleigh -- gives me a 5% boost in negotiating room. :)