History of sold houses on Zoopla

JustAnotherSaver

How detailed is this? In other words, can they miss a chunk of sales off their list?

We're currently eyeing a house for sale in an area we want to live in. Due to reasons in my other thread we're undecided on whether to go pursue it or not. The other option is to leave it & wait for something else in this area to come up.

So i had a look at Zoopla to see the sale history for this road & there's not really much selling. I think the first house listed was sold in 2010, then perhaps 2 houses in 2009, nothing in 2008, maybe 2 in 2007 & so on .... small amounts.

I had a look at surrounding roads & it was a similar story - not a lot listed.

So if we leave it then we could be waiting a long long time for something to come up & even then it could be over our budget (as what we're looking at is forcing us to be patient as it is).

Just wondered if Zoopla missed chunks of house sales on their list?

Shovel_Lad

It might be that very few houses have been sold.

Cross check the information with rightmove or nethouseprices to see if the information is the same as Zoopla.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices.html/svr/1119;jsessionid=26866F5B45B842442CFEF6CB32746D6A

http://www.nethouseprices.com/index.php?con=Search-Sold-House-Prices

Duskylady

I think it takes a few weeks for new sales to appear as well

DRP

JustAnotherSaver wrote: »

How detailed is this? In other words, can they miss a chunk of sales off their list?

We're currently eyeing a house for sale in an area we want to live in. Due to reasons in my other thread we're undecided on whether to go pursue it or not. The other option is to leave it & wait for something else in this area to come up.

So i had a look at Zoopla to see the sale history for this road & there's not really much selling. I think the first house listed was sold in 2010, then perhaps 2 houses in 2009, nothing in 2008, maybe 2 in 2007 & so on .... small amounts.

I had a look at surrounding roads & it was a similar story - not a lot listed.

So if we leave it then we could be waiting a long long time for something to come up & even then it could be over our budget (as what we're looking at is forcing us to be patient as it is).

Just wondered if Zoopla missed chunks of house sales on their list?

I have notice that some sales history is incomplete on RM and/or Zoopla.

I would go direct to the horse's mouth and use the land reg site:
http://houseprices.landregistry.gov.uk/

imo it is easier to use and more comprehensive

tim123456789

DRP wrote: »

I have notice that some sales history is incomplete on RM and/or Zoopla.

I would go direct to the horse's mouth and use the land reg site:
http://houseprices.landregistry.gov.uk/

imo it is easier to use and more comprehensive

which shows exactly the same details as the others, including missing mine (and my neighbour's) house off the last, both of which I know were actually sold

DRP

tim123456789 wrote: »

which shows exactly the same details as the others, including missing mine (and my neighbour's) house off the last, both of which I know were actually sold

I'm guessing i wasn't looking for the details of your house... or your neighbours'

As I stated in my post, the LR site contained details of houses that were omitted from either / both or zoopla/RM.

tim123456789

DRP wrote: »

I'm guessing i wasn't looking for the details of your house... or your neighbours'

As I stated in my post, the LR site contained details of houses that were omitted from either / both or zoopla/RM.

perhaps

but it doesn't contain details of all property that are missing from Z/RM

sometimes details are missing from Z/RM because the LR has lost them

tim

DRP

tim123456789 wrote: »

perhaps

where is the trust in the world these days... ? :rotfl:

jamesml

What if the sale is not listed on the LR either, even if its +1yr ago?

DRP

jamesml wrote: »

What if the sale is not listed on the LR either, even if its +1yr ago?

Good question.

I wonder if you can remove or prevent your sales data being added?

tim123456789

jamesml wrote: »

What if the sale is not listed on the LR either, even if its +1yr ago?

either it's in one of the categories for why it isn't there

or it's a c0ck up (the man from the LR has previously said that there's a mechanism for correcting these!)

tim