What are you seeing on your property bee?

PasturesNew

sjaypink wrote: »

Doesn't take up much space though does it? I don't use FF either, only for looking on Right Move

Me too. FF for RM/Property Bee - and also houseprices.co.uk/Property Chimp to calculate and show losses/gains and percentages with just a mouseover.

sjaypink

PasturesNew wrote: »

I am really keen to get some holiday chalet right on the beach, for peanuts....

Studio flat right on the beach PN?

PasturesNew

sjaypink wrote: »

Studio flat right on the beach PN?

I went through all that lot earlier. Let's face it, it's not a studio flat, it's a shed with a chemical toilet and no electricity at the end of a bleak strip of land, where one good storm will lose all access forever.

So I thought about it - and various others within a mile of that one ... and dismissed them all.

sjaypink

Wow, I'm seeing big drops now!

335k dropped to 235k ???!

LilacPixie

pretty much stagnentation here. Rightmove isn't big in my area so maybe not a true reflection but things either seem to be shifting without a price drop or then move fromsay o/o 100kto fixed 100k and sell or they sit for 12+ months because silly prices in first place

moggylover

There are houses on the market around here that have been on (and overpriced they were even then) since 2005!

There are others that have come on since well over-priced and are still sitting there - and there are three on the market at the moment that I made offers on in the summer and had those offers rejected: only for them to drop to those offer prices around October time:rotfl::rotfl:.

Overall, if it was priced right around here then it was still moving last year - however, there was very little worth looking at, and most of it was dreadfully overpriced, and in pretty poor condition (because unfortunately lots of even the most expensive stuff around here is in pretty rotten condition when you really look at it:rolleyes:).

Overall well down on prices - and I have two friends in Estate Agency who admit that it is very slow with no real sign of anything improving.

zappahey

I keep an eye on the area around Chippenham, in case we end up moving back next year.

It would appear that only the high quality, competitively-priced stuff is moving and everything else is just sitting there. In July 2008, we sold our end-terrace in the area and now, for the same price, we could buy a similarly sized detached.

There still seems to be a few transactions that are falling apart but I have no idea if it's better or worse than before.

It would be interesting to see how representative this area is. I suspect that the local average is being skewed up by the fact that only the higher quality stuff is selling and all of the average to poor stuff is going nowhere.

Graham_Devon

Well I have had my eye on a house since I first started on this part of the forum, and it's still up for sale. Only had my eye on it cus I liked it, not cus I want it and it always seems to be there!

It was £289k. It then dropped 60k to £219k over the period of about 8 months. It's now back up at £249k.

It is, and always has been a little on the expensive side for the area. All I can assume is that the owners are not really fussed how quickly they sell and they are just holding out for the absolute maximum price they can get.

The trouble is, they are competing with 4 bed houses for cheaper prices in the immediate area. The house is done up nicely, and they seem to think that will command the extra approx 40k they are asking compared to houses with an extra bedroom of the same type and build in the immediate area.

Will be interested to see how much it does actually go for in the end. If it goes!

The rest of the places? Mostly increasing in price roughly every couple of months and shifting if the price is "fair".

Mr.Brown_4

What are you seeing on your property bee?

To respond to your question my answer is I am seeing the truth. Not vested interest 'reporting' of the market (either up or down), but simply a shop window reflecting genuine price movements. Instead of an endless, and quite often, pointless 'debate' about the direction of house prices - Property Bee shows what is actually happening in the market. In your market - your local area - what's been on for months / years, what's dropping, what is selling.

Whenever I have read as much puff as I can take from this board, I spend five minutes or so checking PB and it normally reassures me of my sanity.

Real properties, real price movements, real world.

JonnyBravo

Graham_Devon wrote: »

It was £289k. It then dropped 60k to £219k over the period of about 8 months. It's now back up at £249k.

A meaner man might say this little insight on your maths explains a lot about your propensity for statistical struggling.

Not me, obviously.
It's clearly a typo which wasn't corrected in your first edit!



Not started on the wine early have you Graham?