£1000 of Free House Price Information Each (merged)

Mary_Hartnell

PhylPho wrote: »

I registered with mouseprices in order to make a quick check of its accuracy / veracity in respect of the new-build development I'm on.

Mouseprices fails to accurately record what was new at the time of sale and what was not: four out of a total of 20 -- yes, it's only a small development -- are said to have been sold 'not new' when they were, in fact, purchased directly from the builder.

Two identical properties, purchased new from the builder and one year apart, have entirely different mouseprices "estimated values".

Mouseprices is yet another of the kind of website that contributes nothing to a true understanding of the UK housing market but everything in the way of traffic-generated adverts to the website's profits.

Junk.

I see this all the time, not just on the new builds.
On the theory everything is c0ck up or conspiracy:
Most of it is solicitors' clerks who cannot be bothered to fill in the Land Registry return on-time or correctly.
I see a few where I wonder if someone is fiddling the stamp duty or dispossessing the other "partners" in a jointly owned, multi mortgaged, legally charged property. .
(In France they talk about "the attorney's bladder", he pops out to go to the smallest room at a convenient pre-arranged time, leaving the buyer and seller alone together in the room.)

Harry_Powell

that's very nice then isn't it?

GreenBee_2

is mouseprice just as good? don't they all provide the same information from the land registry?

John_Pierpoint

I like Zoopla but I think the same mistakes are propagated onto all of them.

The land registry in exchange for your 4 - 8 -12 -16 quid tells you more interesting information, like the couple selling are not married, they have got a second mortgage with banks X & Y and they originally bought the house 10 years ago before they "mewed" it.

It helps you judge the real reason for trying to sell - I once went chasing after a house that the seller could not sell for another 6 months. Though it looked like one house and garden it was actually two titles owned by two different people. Funny they forgot to mention these little niceties.

Bring back the HIP ?.

wronlaster

Good job bob , but i could not found house information about a specific area .

Mary_Hartnell

John_Pierpoint wrote: »

I like Zoopla but I think the same mistakes are propagated onto all of them.

The land registry in exchange for your 4 - 8 -12 -16 quid tells you more interesting information, like the couple selling are not married, they have got a second mortgage with banks X & Y and they originally bought the house 10 years ago before they "mewed" it.

It helps you judge the real reason for trying to sell - I once went chasing after a house that the seller could not sell for another 6 months. Though it looked like one house and garden it was actually two titles owned by two different people. Funny they forgot to mention these little niceties.

Bring back the HIP ?.

The Land Registry on line fee has gone down to £3 - £6 - etc depending how many titles and plans you need to extract.

shireknight

How do Zoopla work out their prices, the value of my house went up a couple of days ago by £1000 and today it went up another £2000.

According to an old Yahoo answers question Zoopla update their prices once a month yet clearly this isn't the case, are they now calculated on a daily basis?

John_Pierpoint

John_Pierpoint wrote: »

The Government has been force by an EU directive to publish noise maps.
Like flooding, noise effects millions of people. It can be bad for their health.

So check to see if it is on the map before viewing property.
The site is a bit "nerdy" and it helps to know what a 16 hour L10 means. It comes with a warning that it cannot be used to evaluate an individual property. However it gives a good idea of the neighbourhood.

As a rule of thumb, beware of anything in the red & above zone. You could find that having a BBQ turns into a disco experience, where you find yourself shouting at each other.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7404075.stm

http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/noise/mapping/
You can check the railway lines
You can check by day and night.
Sources of industrial noise are also identified.
Finally maps of the surroundings of airports are available (planes are relatively quiet on the ground, it is the ends of the run way where they take off and land that can cop it, for miles out from the airport.)

Maps still available here

http://services.defra.gov.uk/wps/portal/noise/!ut/p/c5/04_SB8K8xLLM9MSSzPy8xBz9CP0os3hnd0cPE3MfAwMD42BTA093f1Nvk2ATAwNnA6B8JG55A2MCusNB9uHXD5I3wAEcDfT9PPJzU_ULciMMskwcFQHW4PMe/dl3/d3/L2dBISEvZ0FBIS9nQSEh

Try a partial post code such as KT9 , which is Chessington (as of World of Adventure).

Ky-An

You can look on Zoopla and rightmove. Is this site any different?

John_Pierpoint

Not sure what you are getting at.
As buying a house is the largest transaction in most people's lives, the buyer needs all the information they can get.
There can be a lot of heartache if you make the wrong decision.