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Please help MSE test NEW tool: Find your house price in 1991

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  • soba
    soba Posts: 2,191 Forumite
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    Worked fine for me.
  • mudshark
    mudshark Posts: 47 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10 Posts Combo Breaker Mortgage-free Glee!
    Band G for me which is what I pay unfortunately.
  • mittenkitten
    mittenkitten Posts: 74 Forumite
    nope, didn't work for me, i actually bought this home in sept 1991 and it's saying i should be in band A but was in band C for many years, even though the neighbours were band B. years, and i mean 10 years or more later (after ex-hubby and i split up) they wrote to me to tell me i had been misbanded and should have been band B all along... which I had told them from the beginning...

    sad end to this sad tale is the bill was in my ex husbands name so he got all the refund!!!
  • ukmaggie45
    ukmaggie45 Posts: 2,968 Forumite
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    I'm with Libra1 - doesn't go back far enough. We bought in 1973.
  • AngelsMadv
    AngelsMadv Posts: 2,668 Forumite
    edited 21 September 2010 at 3:41AM
    SquatNow wrote: »
    Which co-incidently, will also be your house price in 2012....

    Haha! +1 Fantastic. I hope bloody not as I bought last month but heh, you never know! Made me chuckle anyway so WD :j

    Incidentally, I came out as B but we pay A. This, I'm sure, is because the house is ex local authority. I think there should be some option to enter additional information as this really is a blunt tool.
    I am firmly across the line. I won't impose my values on you if you keep away from mine.
    Updated 14/10/14 :A
  • Horasio
    Horasio Posts: 6,676 Forumite
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    Quite interesting seeing what property prices were in 1991
    An average day in my life:hello: :eek::mad: :coffee::coffee::coffee::T :o :rotfl: :rotfl: :p :eek::mad: :beer:
    I am no expert in property but have lived in many types of homes, in many locations and can only talk from experience.
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    It says our flat is Band G, but it's actually two lower than that.
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • firstaspect
    firstaspect Posts: 487 Forumite
    Gave me the correct Band C. Although I've only been paying Band C for a couple of months as for years I was in Band B then they realised I was the only house in the street in that band so probably was wrong.
  • slbhill
    slbhill Posts: 5,441 Forumite
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    It put us in the middle of band D when we're actually in E (along with the entire street of similar houses). That was based on a recent sale, and gave the same results when I used the price the previous owner paid in 2002. It might be that we overpaid!, but I suspect the reason is that our house was built in 1990 and newbuilds always seem to be bumped up a band.
  • lincroft1710
    lincroft1710 Posts: 18,904 Forumite
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    MSE_Dan wrote: »
    Hi lincroft.

    I think this is because there was house price deflation for a few years after 1991, so if you put a sale date in 1993ish, then the 1991 price will actually be higher

    Let me know if you think this is wrong and I will look further into it

    Dan

    The 1991 price should be quite a bit higher than 1993, from my experience (ex VOA) about 20 to 25%.
    If you are querying your Council Tax band would you please state whether you are in England, Scotland or Wales
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