Anyone experienced this - with property snake?

UK007BullDog

Yeah, or they look at the reference number each house has on the internet. new ref no new listing, no fodder for property snake.

Before propertysnake people just looked every day online or in papers and one could soon see/witness the drops, falls, rises, relistings and stagnant properties.

teabelly

Propertybee would be brilliant if it could have historical data ie it would know when each property first appeared as then you'd get a real idea of how the local market was going. In a few months time it will be invaluable as it will have started to build up a picture of what is happening. Using saved properties within rightmove is quite good as you can tell what has been sticking around. Shame rightmove doesn't have a simple piece of information displayed such as 'date when you saved it' but I guess they'd know everyone would check each day and save each new property!

Does anyone know if the rightmove professional does show this kind of information ie the service targeted at EAs and developers which ought to show when a property came to market, when it went off. Hometrack and others know all this but it seems they are reluctant to let mere mortals know about what individual properties and local areas are doing.

ManAtHome

Gorgeous_George wrote: »

If you have built databases, you will know what I mean.

I've built loads of databases over many years - not one has ever used the record/row number as any form of key (deletes, inserts and re-orgs would quickly render it useless). Dunno how these snaky things work, but would imagine they'd be more into address-scraping.

beerhunter

whirlwind wrote: »

Or rather with EA behaviour and not with property snake itself....

Word out on the street is (in London) that EA are trying to avoiding properties ending up on property snake.

EA are not advertising price reductions online because if they do, the property will appear on property snake and vendors will know the seller is desperate, and try to get an even lower price.

Instead they ring up all their EA mates and tell them, and ring all people previously viewed the property/expressed an interest and tell them.

Has anyone experienced this? I haven't (yet).

I'm not sure if its properysnake, or possibly an interesting strategy, indication of sentiment generally, and a falling market.

ie, if we sell this property on the open market we need to market it for (say) 10% less than now to get a buyer, but if we ring round people we know where interested then we might only need to drop the price by (say) 5%.

If true, seems to be the a last gasp...