The Timothy Skinner House
Research note

10 - Past Listing Recovery

5707 Scenic Ave - Past Listing Recovery

Summary

I made a second, broader pass across public real-estate traces outside the original primary listing captures, prioritizing Realtor.com traces, Howard Hanna, Movoto, Redfin, Onjax/MLS remnants, and cached/search-result snippets.

What was actually recovered

1) Stronger historic listing timeline from Movoto

The biggest concrete recovery in this pass was not old photos, but a buried historic price / MLS timeline inside the saved current Movoto detail HTML for the property.

Recovered prior MLS history for 5707 Scenic Ave:

  • MLS R1655848 — current cycle
  • 2026-01-01 listed at $345,000
  • 2026-02-25 price change to $339,900
  • MLS S1531925
  • 2024-04-15 listed at $269,900
  • 2024-06-09 pending
  • 2024-09-05 sold at $255,000
  • MLS S1531559
  • 2024-04-15 listed at $269,900
  • 2024-06-09 pending
  • MLS S1242723
  • 2019-12-19 listed at $170,000
  • 2020-01-30 continue show
  • 2020-04-05 closed
  • MLS S1103832
  • 2018-03-12 listed at $155,000
  • 2018-05-15 continue show
  • 2018-07-12 pending sale
  • 2018-08-02 closed
  • MLS S330862
  • 2015-04-29 listed at $199,900
  • 2016-10-20 price change to $174,900
  • 2017-07-24 price change to $169,900

This is useful because it turns the vague sales history into a much more actionable MLS-history ladder with old listing IDs that could be chased manually later.

2) Additional public search-result traces

Recovered / re-confirmed snippet evidence from public search results:

  • Homes.com sold snippet for the 2024 cycle:
  • 5707 Scenic Ave, Mexico, NY 13114 · /38 · $270,000 Sold Aug 30, 2024
  • snippet language also says the house could be turned back into a 2-unit
  • snippet further exposed lower/upper unit wording consistent with duplex-style marketing
  • Redfin search-result snippet embedded on a zipcode page:
  • 5707 Scenic Ave, Mexico, NY 13114 · $345,000 · 5 beds · 4 baths · 2,184 sq ft
  • Listing by L Wilson Realty, (315) 664-0026
  • Realtor.com trace:
  • search-result snippet confirms a Realtor property-detail mention for the address, but no directly retrievable page was surfaced from this environment

What was blocked / not found

  • No older photo gallery was recovered from Realtor.com, Howard Hanna, Redfin, Onjax, or Wayback in this pass.
  • Wayback CDX checks on likely direct property URLs mostly returned empty arrays ([]).
  • Homes.com direct property access remains blocked from this environment with 403 Access Denied.
  • Brave did not surface a directly accessible Howard Hanna or Realtor.com property page for the older cycles.

Practical takeaway

The best concrete progress from this pass is the recovered older MLS number chain:

  • S1531925
  • S1531559
  • S1242723
  • S1103832
  • S330862

Those IDs are now the best pivot points for any later manual/browser-assisted recovery of prior listing sheets or older photo sets.

Files saved

  • assets/raw-html/past-listing-other-sites-sweep-2026-03-24.md
  • prior file retained: assets/raw-html/past-listing-recovery-attempts-2026-03-24.md

Additional source recovery after this pass

Howard Hanna sold page (MLS S1531925)

Recovered successfully via Playwright.

  • sold date and sale price align with county record
  • saved rendered HTML / PDF / extracted links and image metadata
  • recovered and downloaded 10 prior-listing photos

2FindYourHome older sold page (MLS S1242723)

Recovered successfully.

Important text recovered:

  • marketed as a two family house
  • owners lived in the lower apartment and used rent to help pay the mortgage
  • home was gutted and remodeled in 2009
  • roof replaced in 2014
  • recovered page outputs and 5 related image assets

Redfin off-market page

Recovered significant structured data and another photo source.

Useful recovered details:

  • property shown as 5707 Scenic Ave Unit C
  • described as a 2,184 sq ft multi-family home on a 0.5 acre lot with 5 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms
  • off-market sold Sep 2024 for $255,000
  • flood payload indicates FEMA Zone X (unshaded) and low-to-moderate flood risk
  • downloaded 10 S1531925 image files from Redfin CDN

Current blocker

We still do not have every older cycle’s photo set, but past photos are now being recovered from source-specific pages and CDNs. The remaining gap is deeper recovery for the older MLS cycles like S1103832 and S330862 if public pages or image hosts can still be found.