I have no idea what happened with these particular properties, but this is what I was saying in the other thread about prices being all over the place. Because of the insanely low inventory levels, people are able to pretty much ask whatever they want, and all too often, they seem to get it. IMHO, it might just be a matter of that one clueless buyer being led by a greedy realtor who’s telling him/her to overbid on everything.
In many cases, these price differences can be seen on the SAME house, with sales just a couple of months apart. The flippers put $30K of cosmetic upgrades in and manage to gross $150K-$200K upon flipping it. It’s very disconcerting.