Real estate comps in Vermont: how Property Scan works

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   You send the address. By email to comps@propertyscan.ai, on the website, or in Claude or ChatGPT, for a home in any of Vermont's 14 counties.

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   It pulls the recorded sales nearby. In Vermont, each sale goes on file through the town clerk.

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   It picks the comps and adjusts each one. For market time it uses the FHFA House Price Index for Vermont, which rose 7.3% in the four quarters to the second quarter of 2026 (how comps are chosen and adjusted).

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   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.

No. Vermont sale prices are public record. When a deed is recorded, a Vermont Property Transfer Tax Return (form PTT-172) stating the price is filed through the town clerk, and the transfer tax is paid on it. The Department of Taxes publishes this return data for the public every week.

Official open data on Vermont sales:

• Weekly Public Property Transfer Tax Data (VT Dept. of Taxes)Weekly public data from Property Transfer Tax returns, laid out to match forms PTT-172 and PTT-175, plus quarterly town and county reports of property sales by property category

Property Transfer Tax (plus Clean Water Surcharge): "General Tax Rate: 1.25%. Clean Water Surcharge Rate: 0.22%. Principal Residence Tax Rate: 0.5%. The first $200,000 of value paid is subject to 0.5% Principal Residence Tax Rate (and exempt from the Clean Water Surcharge)."; "Non-Principal Residence Tax Rate (for a residence fit for year-round habitation that is not a long-term rental): 3.40% (3.62% including the Clean Water Surcharge)." (32 V.S.A. § 9602)

MLSs that serve Vermont include:

• PrimeMLS (formerly NEREN, New England Real Estate Network)