Real estate comps in Alabama: how Property Scan works
Property Scan makes comparative market analyses (CMAs) for licensed real estate agents. Send any Alabama address, from Jackson County in the north to Mobile County in the south, and get a client-ready CMA back in minutes, built from Alabama's recorded sales, with every adjustment shown.
Updated October 30, 2026 · Sources at the end
How Property Scan builds a CMA in Alabama
You send the address. By email to comps@propertyscan.ai, on the website, or in Claude or ChatGPT, for a home in any of Alabama's 67 counties.
It pulls the recorded sales nearby.
It picks the comps and adjusts each one. For market time it uses the FHFA House Price Index for Alabama, which rose 2.8% in the four quarters to the second quarter of 2026 (how comps are chosen and adjusted).
You get a client-ready PDF. Your name, photo and brokerage go on it as “Prepared by”, every adjustment is shown, and you can swap any comp.
Is Alabama a non-disclosure state?
No. Alabama sale prices are public record. When a deed is recorded, Alabama law requires proof of the actual purchase price. If the deed itself doesn't state the price, the buyer or seller files a Real Estate Sales Validation Form (Form RT-1) showing the total purchase price. The state deed tax is figured on that value.
Alabama real estate transfer tax
Deed tax (Code of Alabama §40-22-1): $.50 for each $500 or fraction thereof in value of property conveyed (minimum $.50)
Use it alongside your Alabama MLS
MLSs that serve Alabama include:
- Greater Alabama MLS (GALMLS)Central Alabama, based in Birmingham
- ValleyMLS.comNorth Alabama, based in Huntsville
- Gulf Coast MLSMobile area
Try it on an Alabama home you sold recently. Your first 3 reports are free, no card.
Run comps on a home you soldSources
Facts checked October 30, 2026.
- Code of Alabama §40-22-1 (FindLaw reproduction): deed tax and proof of purchase pricecodes.findlaw.com
- Alabama Department of Revenue: Real Estate Sales Validation Form (RT-1)revenue.alabama.gov
- Form RT-1 PDF ('This Document must be filed in accordance with Code of Alabama 1975, Section 40-22-1')revenue.alabama.gov
- Repliers MLS directory: Alabamarepliers.com
- Repliers profile: Greater Alabama MLSrepliers.com
- Repliers profile: ValleyMLS.com (Huntsville)repliers.com
- Repliers profile: Gulf Coast MLS (Mobile)repliers.com
- Greater Alabama MLS (GALMLS)greateralabamamls.com
- ValleyMLS.comvalleymls.com
- Gulf Coast MLSmobilerealtors.com
- Alabama Real Estate Commissionarec.alabama.gov
- FHFA House Price Index (purchase-only, seasonally adjusted, by state)fhfa.gov
- U.S. Census Bureau, TIGERweb: Counties (January 1, 2026 vintage)tigerweb.geo.census.gov