Property snake is having problems

MadMonkey

Hi - someone on here pointed me in the direction or property snake which was a very useful website.

Initially there was about 20 pages of properties in my area - then suddenly last night it went to 2.

I emailed them and apparantly Rightmove have stopped them using the properties off there:eek:

Not sure how they can enforce this as surely anyone can make a note of house prices and then compare them a week later ?

Anyway thought i would share in case anyone uses this site.

budget_counsellor_shaz

:mad: shocking

Why would they do that? Surely they want the houses to sell? Any advertising is free advertising. Or are they worried about consumers having too much information? :rolleyes:

lisyloo

Not sure how they can enforce this as surely anyone can make a note of house prices and then compare them a week later ?

You can read what you like but you aren't able to publish it.

Have you ever seen the copyright notices on books and DVD?
You can use them for your own personal consumption but not for publication to the general public.

IANAL but I would guess that the same applies here.

garethhr

I dont know if the analogy applies, a DVD of Book is designed for private consumption, whereas a public house listing on the web is meant for anyone and everyone. The parent directory of every web page is called 'public' html.

There's an argument that says, if you dont want your listings to be public, why print them openly on the web, in the first place?

Doozergirl

Oh well, that was fun while it lasted.

Rover

Let's not kid ourselves.
PS, gave the impression (rightly or wrongly) of a falling market. That's not in Rightmove's (or any EA's) interests - hence the 'ban'.
It's all bad news for the Bull market, what with Tesco's, rising interest rates, correction warnings, etc, etc.

wecanhelpu

That's correct Rover.

Nothing must be allowed to give the impression that HPI cannot continue forever and any hint of falling prices is frowned upon by VIs

mystic_trev

What - house prices can't keep going up!?

I notice some Economists just told the Irish to expect yoy drops of 5% for the next ten years!

http://www.finfacts.com/irelandbusinessnews/publish/article_1010493.shtml

silvercar

Some properties round here went up in price (mad I know, if they didn't sell at £X why would they sell at more?). Anyway property snake conveniently didn't include them, so it was biased from the start.

irnbru_2

silvercar wrote: »

Some properties round here went up in price (mad I know, if they didn't sell at £X why would they sell at more?). Anyway property snake conveniently didn't include them, so it was biased from the start.

It's purpose was to report asking-price drops.

nelly_2

Rightmove have told the lad who runs the site to pack it in cos their *****

The eas will have been bleating about it like a bunch of fairies.

However Tesco should shut that lot up once and for all