House prices drop in Scotland in real terms

wageslave

Properties in my little corner of Scotland have fallen 9% according to something I read. Well, TBH, they might not have, I may have made that up.

My house is worth less though.

I know this because that lot two doors down sold theirs for 10k less than they paid 2 yrs ago. It took forever to sell and it was all a bit sad really.

Unless you are desperate (and they were, he had lost his job in the imaginary recession) stagnation tends to be the order of the day.

Everyone is holding out for an idiot with a perfect credit rating.

IveSeenTheLight

Mr.Brown wrote: »

But it has pictures of the rooms and garden, plus the price which the people are asking. And sometimes it shows if they have changed the prices, how long it has been on the market. To a perceptive person like myself, if they have been trying to sell a property for two years then they might be open to an offer.

Also it shows the energy certfificate stuff which is invaluable.

All valid points, but I doubt they are only obtained by Zoopla.

My experience is that zoopla are very incorrect in their data so I would personally be looking for much more reliable data.

Mr.Brown wrote: »

I always calculate the amount of lightbulbs a proeprty is going to need over a ten year period, which can often be a deal breaker.

Hmmmm you should try using energy lightbulbs, they last much longer and use less electricity.
You might find more properties that fit your criteria then.

P.S. Does zoopla list light fittings as well?

googler

IveSeenTheLight wrote: »

My experience is that zoopla are very incorrect in their data so I would personally be looking for much more reliable data.

Are you suggesting that the raw data on zoopla is substantially incorrect?

i.e. if you select a town, postcode, etc, and select the option 'show house prices paid in town/postcode' - zoopla then shows a chronological list of prices paid and the dates they were registered. Are you suggesting this data is at fault?

I've found a couple of instances where there's one or two prices shown on ourproperty that weren't on zoopla, but the core data seems broadly correct......

???

IveSeenTheLight

googler wrote: »

Are you suggesting that the raw data on zoopla is substantially incorrect?

Yes,
I've seen data on Zoopla which is factually incorrect.
Much better to get your data from elsewhere in my opinion.
If you want areas data, I tend to use LR or RoSEA.
If you are looking for specific property history, nethouseprices seems to be good

Mr.Brown_4

IveSeenTheLight wrote: »

All valid points, but I doubt they are only obtained by Zoopla.

Bit of confusion, mine probably. I was talking about PropertyBee, I've never used Zoopla. Sounds like crystal balls to me.

googler

IveSeenTheLight wrote: »

Yes,
I've seen data on Zoopla which is factually incorrect.
Much better to get your data from elsewhere in my opinion.
If you want areas data, I tend to use LR or RoSEA.
If you are looking for specific property history, nethouseprices seems to be good

I don't want area data summarised for me, I want the individual prices for individual homes, and to analyse them myself.

zoopla appears to be the only one that allows searching by Scottish counties.

ourproperty and nethouseprices won't recognise them by name at all, only by towns or partial postcodes. ourproperty won't let me search for January's figures (already on zoopla) because 2010 isn't in the dropdown box for their date search!

Whilst you may have seen data on zoopla which is incorrect, do you think zoopla is sufficiently incorrect to sway figures considered at a county-wide level....??

IveSeenTheLight

googler wrote: »

Whilst you may have seen data on zoopla which is incorrect, do you think zoopla is sufficiently incorrect to sway figures considered at a county-wide level....??

I have never used zoopla when considering or negotiating on any property I have bought on.
I have been very succesful in my purchases over the years.

Neither do I worry to much what the county-wide level is doing.
If you are considering property you have to have a very narrow area view and concentrate on the property in question and similar properties on or around a very few close streets to the property desired.

Each to their own, but zoopla for me is unreliable.



**NOTE** Our data may be incomplete or inaccurate.

Mr.Brown_4

IveSeenTheLight wrote: »

*NOTE** Our data may be incomplete or inaccurate.

Thanks for the admission.

IveSeenTheLight

Mr.Brown wrote: »

Thanks for the admission.

Hehe it's from zoopla's website.
I posted the image it was taken from

Mr.Brown_4

IveSeenTheLight wrote: »

Hehe it's from zoopla's website.
I posted the image it was taken from

Ah, I can't see images... I'm on NetNanny.