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[Michael Winslow Czeiszperger <michael AT czeiszperger.org>]

I got some help from "Roscoe" who works for Orange county and was able  
to get the housing price information. Isn't it great the county will  
email you back?

In case anyone else from Orange County ever wants to look up the sale  
prices, here's the procedure:

Go to: http://www.co.orange.nc.us/gis/index.htm

Click on the link that says "Interactive GIS - Old Site" (I couldn't  
get the "new site" to do anything but spit out javascript errors.)
If you know the land's PIN or TMBL numbers you can type those in.  
Otherwise type in your address, or select and neighborhood and navigate  
to the lot.

Click on the Jump to Advanced Viewer link
Click on the "i" inside the circle on the left menu
Click on the lot to query, bringing up stats at the bottom
Scroll to the RVSTAMP value
Divide this number by two to get the last known sale price in thousands

This is the information used for county property taxes, not the actual  
deed, and some of the lots I checked had blank RVSTMP values, but the  
above procedure is still a lot less painful than talking to a  
real-estate agent.

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        -- michael at czeiszperger dot org, Chapel Hill, NC