Sorry, bit of a misnomer…I save a bunch of places in the “my homes’ section on Zip. There’s a button on the top right of the list that allows you to to hide/display Inactive listings. Every week or so I look up the inactive properties on Zillow to see if thy have been sold. By saving them in ‘my homes’ on Zip you keep record of them that doesn’t show up on the normal saved searches.

Its also a good way of keeping an eye on properties that go inactive and then come back on the market with a new MLS#, as they’ll turn up on the saved search lists as ‘new on market’. I can then copy the data from the old inactive list over to the new listing, thus keeping a (very rough) cumlative DOM, and differences in asking price.
As I have narrow criteria for what I’m looking for, more often than not I’ll save the ‘new on market’ record. By sorting the ‘my homes’ list by something like Lot Size, and activating the inactive button, it becomes apparent that its the same property, as they will appear next to each other….

Yes, I know, a Stone Age way of doing it! But I am just a looky-loo at this point, don’t want to get any outside ‘help’ at the moment, nor want to pay subscription for any more specialsed sites.

Apologies to all the professionals here, I know you’re laughing at me now 🙂

Although, if anyone knows a way of finding out what happened to a place that went ‘Inactive’ and hasn’t sold (for free and without the help of others, as above) then I’d be very appreciative of the advice.