do you think these sites showing house prices

The_White_Horse

has had an effect in keeping them up? was it better when we had no idea what our neighbours property was selling for? i think so.

Linton

Didnt house prices rise before the internet? In any case if house prices really were falling sellers can see this and price their houses appropriately. If they didnt know that house prices were falling they wouldnt.

dori2o

Before the internet all you had to do was contect the Land Registry, so the information was in the public domain anyway.

Another TWH fail.

grizzly1911

I used to look in the local estate agents window, gave guide.

daveyjp

dori2o wrote: »

Before the internet all you had to do was contect the Land Registry, so the information was in the public domain anyway.

Another TWH fail.

The practice of the Land Registry releasing price details is a recent introduction. Websites now offer this data, but the Land Registry putting it into the public domain does not preceed the internet.

CWSmith

Years ago, the price of a house would be on the "for sale" board outside the property.

The_White_Horse

all i am saying is that nowadays, you know that your next door neighbour got say, 300k for their house, so now you will not accept a penny less. in the old days, you knew your neighbour was selling for 300k but you didn't know if he got 300k or 260k. so you might have been more flexible in your attitude to selling.

even if you could get the info from land registry - and i'm not sure you could - it was hard to do and the majority of people didn't. now, the majority of people do.