Do you want house price to rise or fall?

buglawton

I think that Rightmove has changed/improved it's 'sold prices' website.
Previously I used Zoopla's land registry listings but could never see how many bedrooms flats had, making flat research rather difficult.

Rightmove now has the same Land Registry listings but with the number of bedrooms and original listing+photos if it was on Rightmove (seems to cover most). This seems new to me - anyone confirm?

chucknorris

buglawton wrote: »

I think that Rightmove has changed/improved it's 'sold prices' website.
Previously I used Zoopla's land registry listings but could never see how many bedrooms flats had, making flat research rather difficult.

Rightmove now has the same Land Registry listings but with the number of bedrooms and original listing+photos if it was on Rightmove (seems to cover most). This seems new to me - anyone confirm?

I like the fact that quite a lot of the properties still have floor plans and photos. Which makes comparisons much easier.

buglawton

Of course, Rightmove will soon have some very interesting GDPR questions to answer.

triathlon

ftbwannabe wrote: »

I'd like them to fall so I can afford somewhere*, I'm in my 40s & it's never seemed possible to buy here (South East). But I want my friends' & family not to be in negative equity.
*preferably somewhere that isn't full of damp & on a busy road full of trucks, but desperation might lower my standards

If you have never been able to get on the housing ladder at your age then you never will, it takes a lot of character and nerve and the fact that most that do enter the property market which are mostly BTL landlords these days are alpha males/females.

I was talking about this a couple of weeks ago to a load of BTL mates, out of all of our tenants not one of them has the bottle, skill and brains to even take the first step. And the fact that you are even considering it tells me that rents in the UK could rise another 25% if that were true.

At long last the UK is going rental like Germany, France and many other countries, get used to it

chucknorris

ftbwannabe wrote: »

I'd like them to fall so I can afford somewhere*, I'm in my 40s & it's never seemed possible to buy here (South East). But I want my friends' & family not to be in negative equity.
*preferably somewhere that isn't full of damp & on a busy road full of trucks, but desperation might lower my standards

I know that it isn't easy, but it is possible, I used to (I no longer work on that module as I am now part time) have conversations every year with some of my dissertation students. They used to say that their final year was difficult, because on top of their studies, they also had to contend with work, bringing up a young family and refurbishing a run down (that's all they could afford) property, and that's in the South East (our university is in London).

The first house that I bought had to be totally gutted, it was really damp, it was so bad it didn't sell at an auction, it needed a dpc injected, replacement floor joists, replacement windows and doors, rewiring and just about everything else, including central heating, which I knew nothing about, but I ran all the pipework, fixed the rads, and bought the boiler, and then paid a gas engineer to connect everything up. So I mostly did it all myself (with help from family) during evenings, weekends and holidays, whilst living at my parent's house. I must admit though, that at the end I was so exhausted that I paid a decorator to finish it off, by then both my energy and enthusiasm were flagging a bit.

Libber

buglawton wrote: »

Of course, Rightmove will soon have some very interesting GDPR questions to answer.

Why do you believe that? There's no GDPR issue with reposting public data from the Land Registry or old house adverts.

buglawton

Libber wrote: »

Why do you believe that? There's no GDPR issue with reposting public data from the Land Registry or old house adverts.

Well, on a property I bought I can see the previous owners tenants belongings nicely arranged around his living room...

Main point with GDPR is that personal info of any type - and that might include your choice in wallpaper - can't be retained or publicly displayed without the information owners consent to what info is stored, what it's used for and who else will see it.

lisyloo

without the information owners consent

This is the operative phrase.
If you sign an estate agents contract then you give your permission for this and the vast majority of estate agents will have this covered.


If you leave your rolex collection or your smalls on view when you know the photos are being taken then you're an idiot.

mge456

It would be fairer to the younger generations if house prices fell. They are completely out of kilter with average wages.

Not a huge crash but a return to realistic, achievable prices. People are fed up of working, sacrificing and saving with nothing to show for it.

badmemory

The great thing about owning your own home is that it really doesn't matter to you or your (especially resident) heirs if the value of that property increases by a factor of ten or decreases by that same factor. That roof over our/their heads is still over our heads.


It only matters really to those who need to sell that roof for "monetary" gain.