How to find out the price history of houses on rightmove

[MrsJamin]

Have found a wonderful tool to find out previous prices of houses on rightmove, you just download the firefox toolbar from //property-bee.com which automatically adds extra information onto the houses' information in your search results. Very interesting to see houses that have been for sale for a while, and when the price was changed - gives you extra information to help you find houses which look like they want to sell quickly.

[wendybird77]

Love property bee! Slightly addicted.

[MrsJamin]

It's making me feel nosy about properties I'm not even interested in buying!

[FatherReboolaConundrum]

Do be aware, though, that property bee isn't always accurate. For example, a house came on the market last October, we made an offer on it last November, found out that the vendors were cowboy-building, lying bastards in Feb and walked away, they put it back on the market with the same EAs in March. Property bee only has a record of the house being on the market since then (March), when in fact it was on the market for almost 6 months longer, with one failed sale. And, not surprisingly, if vendors change EA it doesn't recognise the property as the same one previously on the market with a different EA. So it's useful as far as it goes, but don't assume it's giving you the full picture.

[1605]

As Father says, estate agents are wising up to PropertyBee and are learning how to manipulate it.

It's still fantastic and no-one should buy a house without it. Propertysnake is a similar tool.

[MrsJamin]

Does that mean they put on a price, and then reduce it a week or so later, knowing that people can see that?

[papooser]

It was really helpful for us when buying a house - but agree that it doesn't always give accurate information. For example, I saw that the house we are buying (quite some time after our offer was accepted) was suddenly listed as available again, then STC again, then available, then STC all in a matter of days (implying that maybe there were issues with the contract falling through). Nothing of the sort had happened - so I have no idea why this came up on property bee.

[htatt73]

OurProperty.co.uk will give you prices houses sold for and similar ones in that area also. However it registers about 2 or 3 months after the house sold. Still helpful if you are looking at houses to compare with if you are thinking of putting your house on the market.

[1605]

Following on from htatt Zoopla has also started keeping the 'history' of a house, complete with estate agent's listing.

This is brilliant to ensure you do not overpay. I have seen smaller houses in need of refurbishment sell for dramatically more than their much glossier, extended counterparts, simply because a buyer new to the market has no way of comparing floorplans.