micawber

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It must be bad. I heard Chinese Leaves the market.

People always fail to understand the supertanker nature of the housing market. It won't drop suddenly in response to events. The reaction is typically delayed and slow. Patience is a virtue.

Don't get excited about the volumes. It's just an initial sample. And because of that, you'll get some very weird results for the latest months.

Is this data significantly different to that shown on the weekly UK Property Market Stats show on YT? There's loads of freely available stuff there.

Crikey. I feel like I am giving you the runaround. Sorry. I didn't have a property in mind. You could pick any you liked. But here is one you could use. Ideally we would see initial marketing price and last marketing price next to the final completion price of £380K.

I wasn't very clear in what I was looking for. Take a use case; I'm looking at a house up my road. I can see that it sold 2 years ago for £300K - on, say, houseprices.io. There's no record in RM as the transaction was completed a while back. I'd like to see that it went on to RM at £350K, and then reduced to £320K before eventually selling for £300k. That kind of query cannot be driven from RM because the property is no longer listed there.

It's beyond the remit of this app, but will it ever be possible to follow the progress of a house sale through from start to finish, i.e. from initial marketing price, to reductions, to land registry price? I see so many people talk about seeing a home go SSTC and then meaning to follow up in 7 months or so to see what it actually sold for.

IN addition, make voting mandatory. I'd go further and remove the personal tax allowance so that all citizens pay some tax and thus have more motivation to vote.

It's good to get a lot of views. Neither of them were particularly effective. Putin's history lesson was largely a bunch of nonsense and conveniently left out the impact of Stalin and the Holodomor. The way he blamed WWII on Poland was fantastic and he neglected to mention the pact between Stalin and Hitler. An eloquent psychopath in operation. A PP called him a great leader but I think he was mixing up his dictators. There's only one great leader.

Quirky - Issues impossible to resolve typically odd shaped rooms too small for any real use.

This is a bit tricky, but what do you think? I assume that the bottom lot of nearby sold properties are coming from completed purchases listed by the land registry. But the nearby RM properties (in blue) also include many Under Offer and SSTC. It would be nice if you could separate out the available - and maybe add more of them - from the under offer. This would be a real bonus for house hunters.

Thanks for your work on this. I'll fire up the old PC and Windows to have a look later. Cheers.

BBC haven't reported ONS House Price Index for at least 3mo. I've submitted it as a potential news story for them to investigate.

It's such a crud index that I'm surprised that people think it demonstrates prices are rising in any way. It could simply be higher value properties coming to market driving the reported prices up. Those higher value properties could be reduced by 10% in price compared with previous and the RM index could still show a rise based on them being listed.