Where to find property sold in my areas?

Lilio8

Good evening all and happy New Year!

I would like to find out, without asking an estate agent, the properties that have sold in my area. I don't seem to find such a list on The Land Registry. There's a website called OnTheMarket that lists a few properties, the estate agents in charge and the price. 

Are they any other sources (other than Zoopla or RightMove)?

Olinda99

silly question but why not use zopla and rightmove ?

swingaloo

Sold House Prices | See UK House Prices Online | Rightmove

Bookworm105

all the major property listing websites onthemarket, zoopla, rightmove have sections listing sold properties by date

That info is obtained by them from the Land Registry as that is the only definitive record of all sales, but what they populate on their own sites may not be timely or, in certain circumstances, may give a misleading picture (eg buying out the share of a co-owner)

it is perfectly possible to get the info direct from Land Registry yourself using their sold prices app but searching at a "higher level" such as the road name or even town name only
Search the price paid dataset - HM Land Registry Open Data

the advantage of the LR data compared to the price websites is you can download it for further analysis (but you don't get the pretty pictures)

ReadySteadyPop

Lilio8 said:

Good evening all and happy New Year!

I would like to find out, without asking an estate agent, the properties that have sold in my area. I don't seem to find such a list on The Land Registry. There's a website called OnTheMarket that lists a few properties, the estate agents in charge and the price. 

Are they any other sources (other than Zoopla or RightMove)?

https://www.plumplot.co.uk/house-prices-by-county.html

https://www.propertylog.net/

HonestJohn

I use https://nethouseprices.com/

ReadySteadyPop

Olinda99 said:

silly question but why not use zopla and rightmove ?

 Zoopla seem to have very optimistic prices, I don`t think anyone takes them seriously, they look like they are just trying to get clicks/traffic.

RelievedSheff

ReadySteadyPop said:

Olinda99 said:

silly question but why not use zopla and rightmove ?

 Zoopla seem to have very optimistic prices, I don`t think anyone takes them seriously, they look like they are just trying to get clicks/traffic.

The sold price is the sold price.

Zoopla get their information from the Land Registry the same as all the other sites displaying sold price data.

incus432

Bookworm105 said:

it is perfectly possible to get the info direct from Land Registry yourself using their sold prices app but searching at a "higher level" such as the road name or even town name only
Search the price paid dataset - HM Land Registry Open Data

the advantage of the LR data compared to the price websites is you can download it for further analysis (but you don't get the pretty pictures)

Useful data but the search on that site is truly terrible.  Entering the town name in 'Town or City' gave no matches  - i had to put it into 'locality'.  It also really needs an explanation of what the fields like 'District'/ 'Town or City' / 'Locality' mean here, or pull down options.

Bookworm105

incus432 said:

Bookworm105 said:

it is perfectly possible to get the info direct from Land Registry yourself using their sold prices app but searching at a "higher level" such as the road name or even town name only
Search the price paid dataset - HM Land Registry Open Data

the advantage of the LR data compared to the price websites is you can download it for further analysis (but you don't get the pretty pictures)

Useful data but the search on that site is truly terrible.  Entering the town name in 'Town or City' gave no matches  - i had to put it into 'locality'.  It also really needs an explanation of what the fields like 'District'/ 'Town or City' / 'Locality' mean here, or pull down options.

there may be an element of trial and error but at the end of the day the Land Registry is the source of all sold price info used by everyone else.

Bookworm105

ReadySteadyPop said:

Olinda99 said:

silly question but why not use zopla and rightmove ?

 Zoopla seem to have very optimistic prices, I don`t think anyone takes them seriously, they look like they are just trying to get clicks/traffic.

irrelevant
the OP is asking about sold prices, not your eternal hope of asking price crashes