Real estate firm adds sales data to Web site

The Seattle Times reports:

Your neighbors asked an arm and a leg for their house. Now that the "sold" sign is up, the burning question is: Did they get it?

Come Monday you'll be able to find out as Bellevue-based John L. Scott, one of the Northwest's oldest real-estate firms, brings to its Web site sales data about individual homes, including the final price, address, property detail and a photo. The company believes it is the first in the nation to offer the information more quickly than public-records searches.

That data will be made available as soon as a property closes through the Northwest Multiple Listing Service, which on Monday becomes the first MLS in the country to provide that data to member firms. John L. Scott has been working for weeks to make it available almost instantly.

The real estate market is moving towards real time.