Track house price changes with Property Bee

Mutton_Geoff

I invited five estate agents to value a house yesterday. Not one of them (claimed) to have heard of Property Bee nor Property Snake and gave surprised looks and hastily took notes when I showed them print outs of local house listings with the Property Bee notes attached.

I just wonder how many of them really understand their own business!

One did say that his head office had instructed them to delete a property then relist it on Rightmove if there were any edits (eg price) to be made. He didn't know why this was but is now under the impression it's to prevent Property Bee data captures as well as show up as a new listing when it's reloaded.

PasturesNew

Mutton_Geoff wrote: »

I invited five estate agents to value a house yesterday. Not one of them (claimed) to have heard of Property Bee nor Property Snake and gave surprised looks and hastily took notes when I showed them print outs of local house listings with the Property Bee notes attached.

I just wonder how many of them really understand their own business!

One did say that his head office had instructed them to delete a property then relist it on Rightmove if there were any edits (eg price) to be made. He didn't know why this was but is now under the impression it's to prevent Property Bee data captures as well as show up as a new listing when it's reloaded.

LOL. Fools.
If you're in an industry, especially one that is going t1ts up, you'd be researching it surely!

howler_2

mewbie wrote: »

Apologies if this has been posted before, but anyone who doesn't know... should know.

I knew the news was bad on house prices but I didn't realise how bad! I just installed Firefox and Property Bee, and trundled through a few dozen pages of properties in my area... I am absolutely gobsmacked. Prices slashed, Sold STC becoming re-available, multiple reductions, huge reductions (well over 25% in places).

For those who don't already know - Firefox is an alternative to Internet Explorer, which you must have in order to use Property Bee. You can keep using your old IE and just use Firefox for checking Rightmove. Property Bee shows you all the normal Rightmove stuff, but with price and other information changes shown in additional boxes.

To install this software took about three minutes and here are some simple instructions.

The download for FireFox is at http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/
Click download - follow instructions.

The download for Propert Bee is at http://www.property-bee.com/
Follow link to download - follow instructions.

Cant recommend this enough.

Useful for rental prices too

Debt_Free_Chick

PasturesNew wrote: »

LOL. Fools.
If you're in an industry, especially one that is going t1ts up, you'd be researching it surely!

To be fair, unless they own a share of the business, they're not "in an industry" - they just "have a job".

If you work on the checkout at M&S you don't necessarily know what's what in John Lewis?

morg_monster

The areas I look at regularly on PB, I'm convinced that many of the EAs do know about PB and take delight in altering details to give us avid PBers a nice blue stripe (or yellow now)... we get all excited and then find they've just deleted their phone number on the listing, and then added it back on. Sometimes several times a day. Seriously, I really think they do it on purpose to wind us up!

As an aside - when I first started using it for Surbiton flats, I'd get quite a few reductions every time I looked. Now - almost nothing. Unsure if everyone has reached their absolute rock bottom price (very possible - I'm sure many are youngish couples and moved in since say 2003-4) and are now going to either stay put or rent out. OR is this the calm before further storms?!

howler_2

Debt_Free_Chick wrote: »

To be fair, unless they own a share of the business, they're not "in an industry" - they just "have a job".

If you work on the checkout at M&S you don't necessarily know what's what in John Lewis?

M&S checkouts operators would probably price property more accurately than those ' in the industry' (:rotfl: ) at the moment

P.S. That is in no way meant to insult M&S staff

ray123

I cannot install property bee!!!!
Please help...
I use firefox, but when I attempt to install, it comes up with an error message! I followed the steps in the video on the website, but still no luck!
Perhaps it is because i am using vista (i do not have a clue)- does anyone have a similar problem?

sarkin

loofer wrote: »

I've not quite grasped he use of this property bee.

Just installed it yesterday and had a look at a few properties on rightmove to see what info it gives.

On the property page of all the properties I checked(10) it only showed yesterdays date as 'initial entry found' and then on some of them it showed the tele number for the agents had changed.

I was expecting it show the price changes of the property like propertysnake but now I'm starting to guess that it only compares the price against the last time you viewed a property (based on history/cookies). So if you hadn't viewed a property previously, you won't know if it's been reduced.

Am I doing something incorrectly?

check your cookie status

or bump

sarkin

ray123 wrote: »

I cannot install property bee!!!!
Please help...
I use firefox, but when I attempt to install, it comes up with an error message! I followed the steps in the video on the website, but still no luck!
Perhaps it is because i am using vista (i do not have a clue)- does anyone have a similar problem?

I am running Vista no problems.

its a straight forward download and drag and drop if I remeber.

You can always email beerhunter or PM him over on GHPC

beerhunter

ray123 wrote: »

I cannot install property bee!!!!
Please help...
I use firefox, but when I attempt to install, it comes up with an error message! I followed the steps in the video on the website, but still no luck!
Perhaps it is because i am using vista (i do not have a clue)- does anyone have a similar problem?

What does the error message say?