Sold prices on Mouseprice etc

[JulieAnderton]

How long do sold prices take to show up on sites such as Mouseprice? I'm interested because I know that two properties on my street (which have identical layouts to mine) have been sold in the last year. One of them went to a developer who re-sold it within a matter of months, so I'm very interested in what the pre- and post-developed prices were.

The other property has been "sold subject to contract" for ages, so I guess it's still going through the conveyancing process

Can you opt out of putting sold details online or this this information automatically publicly available?

[CuddyMum]

They appear here first

www.landregistry.gov.uk/public/information/public-data/price-paid-data

It seem to take about two months to appear but this can vary :)

[MissRee]

Under what circumstances would something NOT show up on the Land Registry website? I know that the flat downstairs from me sold in March last year (and the purchaser became my freeholder) but it doesn't show at all on last year's reports!

[GuinevereOfTheRoyalCourt]

Unfortunately, quite a significant number of sales don't seem to make the land registry website. I'm fairly sure it is random. (For example, the place I sold made it to the feed, the place I bought didn't!)

My suspicion is that it's as simple as someone at the land registry not keying the information in correctly.

It's very frustrating, though. I do hope they sort out the quality of their data soon.

[GuinevereOfTheRoyalCourt]

Incidentally, if you know for sure that a property sold on the open market more than a few months ago you can let the Land Registry know that it's missing.

They have a form on their website that you can fill in and submit -

www.landregistry.gov.uk/contact-us/change-sales-record

[JulieAnderton]

Thanks for the link to the Land Registry. From having a quick glance it looks as though you have to know the month in which a property sold and you can't search by postcode - is that right or am I just being a bit thick?

[Mandy21]

Sales don't appear sometimes if they're bought by a company (which might be the case for the property bought by a developper) or if its a repossession.

[CuddyMum]

I think (I may be wrong) that you have to download the data for each month and search within that. There may be a search facility elsewhere on the site but I'm not sure.

[ohbuggerhelp]

Private sales don't always show either.

[GuinevereOfTheRoyalCourt]

Julie, Cuddy - the files you link to are really designed for people wanting to do some analysis of the data, or build websites etc.

The land registry also do a general look up which can be found at -

houseprices.landregistry.gov.uk

Although it doesn't look like they're doing a very good job of updating the data on it! But it is still only a "beta" version which might be the excuse.

You might be better off looking on rightmove or mouseprices etc as they seem to be a bit more efficient at loading the most recent files.

[CuddyMum]

Ah, much better. Thank you Guinevere!

[ClaudiaCutie]

If they don't show up on the records it might well be because a shell company has bought the property using the stamp duty cheat system, quite a few sale records don't appear due to that. Annoying as I'm nosy and want to know what the selling prices.

[JulieAnderton]

Thanks for the other land registry link. Found my street, but it only has the same info as what is on Mouseprice/Rightmove, so still doesn't show what the developed house went for.