I must of missed it in the papers but I understand there is a web site -- no charge -- where you can see prices paid for houses. Not the official Land Registry site which is 2 per time.
Anyone help with link.
Ken
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This one seems to give prices for the whole street at a time, but the other site makes you click each property to get the price which can be more time consuming.
...as long as you don't want house prices in Scotland.
From the site: "At the moment Scotland is not included as our focus has been to get a lot of detail into the site over a smaller area."
What a load of tosh. If they wanted to concentrate on 'a smaller area' they should have focussed on Scotland first! Last time I checked it was a bit smaller than the whole of England and Wales.
Ronnie
I have had great difficulty getting info for well known big housing roads in the South Wales area from there. It is as if the roads do not exist which, of course, they do.... unless I am living in some kind of virtual Universe!
They have to pay for the data from the Land Registry, you know, but unless you're a heavy user they're handing it out to you for free.
Chances are, they'd have to pay more to get Scotland coverage. My guess is that they're concentrating on the area in which they'll get most payback quickest, until they can get the business up to speed.
You could always offer to cover their costs to buy into the Scottish data...
Jon
If they'd said that on the site...fair enough. That's a good business reason. The patronising rubbish they've tried to present as a reason doesn't even make sense.
I could but I'm not sure why I should have to pay for the Scottish data when the England and Wales data is provided for free.
Ronnie
"Ronnie Gibson" wrote
"I'm not sure why I should have to pay for the [Aston Martin] when the [cup of tea from the dealer] is provided for free" !!
Point is, the Aston Martin dealer is giving away cups of tea for free, but not Aston Martins. Why should they change their business model for me?
Similarly, the website is giving away England and Wales data for free, but not Scottish data. Why should they change their business model for you?
That's rather a skewed comparison. Scottish prices aren't *that* valuable.
So let the parochial Aston Martin dealer keep his cups of weak tea. I'm off to the Ferrari dealer where you can get both free cups of tea and free cups of coffee. At nethouseprices.com both EW and Sc data are free.
Tim, I think you're missing the point entirely and also giving an example that is not even close to being an analogy.
England and Wales = cup of tea Scotland = Aston Martin
So what you're trying to say is that the Scottish data must cost them at least
100,000 times more than the E&W data! I can see now why they don't have the Scottish data.To give a serious answer to your question, you might have to read through the thread again. The site itself has no intention of charging for Scottish data. That proposal was by one of the posters in this NG. The site seems to intend to provide Scottish data for free in the future...hence my question that you've quoted above as to why I should have to pay for Scottish data. My original objection was to the naff reason they gave for not having Scottish data available.
Ronnie
"Ronnie Gibson" wrote
Not at all - you've missed the point.
The point is, the website is not in the business of providing Scottish data (at the moment) - whether for free or at a price. But then again, if you agreed to pay enough then they'd probably change that immediately ...
This could go on for a while...you missed the point, no you missed the point, no YOU missed the point... I'm reasonably sure, since it was my post that triggered this section of the thread, that I do actually understand the point I was making and it had little to do with cups of tea and expensive cars. It didn't even have anything to do with paying for the data. However, if you're determined to have the last word then feel free to reply to this...I shall bid you good day and say no more.
Ronnie
"Ronnie Gibson" wrote
You may understand the point you were making, but you did *not* know "what [I was] trying to say".
So you shouldn't have said that you did!
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