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Finding house sold prices

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Irishstout · 12/05/2021 06:39

I'm looking to buy in the near future and trying to track down some sold prices. Does anyone know the best place to look?

I know rightmove has a section for sold prices but definately not everything is on there.

Theres a row of new builds that have mostly sold - 2 left. I'd love to know how much the others sold for before making an offer but can't find out anywhere. Is there a way of finding it?

Thanks!

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TeamMummy · 12/05/2021 06:59

NetHousePrices

Girlonthego · 12/05/2021 07:07

Land registry

Cocoaone · 12/05/2021 07:08

They'll only be available around 3 months after completion. I usually google the street name and zoopla house price and you can see the history for the whole street most of the time

E.g High street New town zoopla house price

Girlonthego · 12/05/2021 07:19

3 months? My house has been on for 7 years (I really really wish it wasn't... why is it the public's right to know how much I paid for my house or how much it's worth?)

I think houses that were sold decades ago can't have their prices found.

MyOtherProfile · 12/05/2021 07:21

Ourproperty.co.uk

MyOtherProfile · 12/05/2021 07:23

It goes back to 1995.

Cocoaone · 12/05/2021 07:24

@Girlonthego I know. I have no idea why it's available tbh. You can't find out how much someone paid for their car..

I guess it helps when you're the buyer. But I also don't like the thought of people knowing how much a paid for a house. And as I buyer, I want to know how much others have paid - but I don't know them, so it feels less intrusive than Aunt Cathy having a nose at how much I paid!

The earliest prices I've found on zoopla are early 2000s

Girlonthego · 12/05/2021 07:27

@Cocoaone exactly. Like colleagues/acquaintances etc. Strangers, including potential future buyers,I don't mind so much.

Maybe the info should be released when the house in question comes back on the market or something

eurochick · 12/05/2021 07:30

You've misunderstood - it takes around three months for the data to be made available. Once it is it stays available.

GertiMJN · 12/05/2021 07:33

Last year it was taking longer than 3 months to show

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Irishstout · 12/05/2021 07:47

Hmmm cant find it on net house prices....

They've been built over a year and definately sold over 3 months ago as I've been stalking rightmove for ages Grin

I think that they're over prices (hence not selling) but would like to know what others managed to agree on.

I agree it seems a bit intrusive, but dead useful from a buyers perspective!

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Londongent · 12/05/2021 07:57

New builds are often not on rightmove under their road name (not sure why) but if you have the exact postcode then if they have sold over 3 months ago you should be able to find them that way

lastqueenofscotland · 12/05/2021 09:31

Have they actually completed or just SSTC?

TakeYourFinalPosition · 12/05/2021 09:33

@Irishstout There’s a much bigger delay where I am. Houses viewed in September still aren’t showing as sold with new prices. I’ve no idea if there’s been delays in the chains, but delays across all of them seems unlikely... I know the Land Registry was really behind for a lot of the country last year, I don’t think they’ve caught up here yet.

Bells3032 · 12/05/2021 09:36

@Girlonthego

3 months? My house has been on for 7 years (I really really wish it wasn't... why is it the public's right to know how much I paid for my house or how much it's worth?)

I think houses that were sold decades ago can't have their prices found.

she means it will only be added three months after completion ie you won't be able to see it before then
Girlonthego · 12/05/2021 09:40

Bells ah yes I see that now :)

MotherOfGodWeeFella · 12/05/2021 09:46

[quote Cocoaone]@Girlonthego I know. I have no idea why it's available tbh. You can't find out how much someone paid for their car..

I guess it helps when you're the buyer. But I also don't like the thought of people knowing how much a paid for a house. And as I buyer, I want to know how much others have paid - but I don't know them, so it feels less intrusive than Aunt Cathy having a nose at how much I paid!

The earliest prices I've found on zoopla are early 2000s[/quote]
It's because the Land Registry is a govt agency, house prices are important economic indicators and valuations are made on a comparative basis. There's also transparency which dissuades money laundering activity.

For £3 they can find out your full name, who your mortgage lender is and what weird arrangements you have with next door for them to walk over your property too, if applicable.

WeatherwaxLives · 12/05/2021 09:51

There's a massive backlog at the land registry, we bought last April and our house still isn't registered to us.

Mortgage company keep having a pop at the solicitors, but there's literally nothing anyone can do but wait!

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Irishstout · 12/05/2021 17:25

Maybe it's back log because I cant seem to find them anywhere. One is sstc but the others are occupied so should be somewhere.

Baffling

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sst1234 · 12/05/2021 17:54

I am fairly sure developers use some sort of tactic to delay sold prices appearing on rightmove/lane registry etc. To make sure people cannot bid on unsold plots using sold price information. I have seen this many times that prices only appear once all plots are sold.

RoseDelatour · 12/05/2021 20:05

Not all sales get shown. PIL sold their house in 2015 and it’s never been on the sold price list. It only shows the record when they bought the house in 2001. No idea why.

Also, our current house price shows up in the official records under the old house name that is never used. Zoopla record is under the house number that is now used, but obviously hasn’t linked to the old name and price paid. So it’s just a Zoopla estimate and not what we actually paid.

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Irishstout · 12/05/2021 20:34

@sst1234 that's what I wondered!

Might just go for a dead cheeky offer and see Grin

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luccyloo · 12/05/2021 20:40

We completed 5 months ago, sold price is still not online - there's a backlog I think

Beetle76 · 13/05/2021 23:21

Our new build is/was impossible to find on Zoopla unless you know how to look it up. The full postcode just on its own works, but include any part of the address (other than the full incorrect address which you obviously wouldn’t know) and it can’t find it.

The search results for the post code doesn’t look like the right house as they’ve got the street name wrong (missing a word) so instead of it reading as a street name, it sounds like a flats or something. They’ve also included the name of a random road in the town next door which has, at best, a similar post code.

For example our address is:
3 Plum Tree Orchard
Townsville
TN7 3AB

but Zoopla has it as:
3 The Orchard
Random Road (which isn’t even in Townsville)
Townsville
TN7 3AB

The incorrect address is definitely linked to our house data as the sale date & price match up.

There is no “The Orchard” on this random road in the next town. The property info is correct on the land registry so this is some kind of a Zoopla quirk!

Based on this, I’m not sure I’d trust the estimated value anyway as they don’t seem to know where the house is and I’d expect location to be part of the algorithm that works it all out.

So you might find these new build houses on Zoopla eventually if the address is a new street as ours was, but the data is probably flawed.

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