ScaredEitherWay Posted February 28, 2009 Share Posted February 28, 2009 (edited) I have a nifty firefox plugin I've been using for some months now, called PropertyChimp http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/31220 What PropertyChimp does is, for the houseprices.co.uk website, it displays a new link, when you click on that link it gathers all previous sales lines for that property together and displays green when it was sold at a profit, red when sold at a loss. This means if you are viewing house prices, you don't have to faff about finding if a house has sold before and for how much then calculating how much of a gain/loss that is, you simply click. So I typed the single county name of Cornwall into it and went down the last 100 sales listed (using data last undated on 31/01/09) and counted the red bits ... 13 of them. So, for data on houseprices.co.uk for sales listed on Land Registry, that means 13% of them were sold at a loss. Now, the data will be updated any day now (Monday?) it'd be interesting to see if that number increases or what. http://www.houseprices.co.uk/e.php?q=cornwall&n=100 So: 1] Using Firefox, go get PropertyChimp, which uses Greasemonkey 2] Install it (install greasemonkey first) 3] Go to http://www.houseprices.co.uk and see a new link called "fetch", click that and see the magic happen Edited March 1, 2009 by ScaredEitherWay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickincash Posted February 28, 2009 Share Posted February 28, 2009 Brilliant! Another useful tool. Saves a lot of work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deadman Posted February 28, 2009 Share Posted February 28, 2009 Cheers SEW. Handy little tool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emlyn Posted February 28, 2009 Share Posted February 28, 2009 Having just given it a test drive its quite nifty. What we really need though is something like this on the property bee. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScaredEitherWay Posted February 28, 2009 Author Share Posted February 28, 2009 Having just given it a test drive its quite nifty.What we really need though is something like this on the property bee. You couldn't tie the two data sets together because RM doesn't list or store the full address of the property. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AteMoose Posted February 28, 2009 Share Posted February 28, 2009 Nice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freeholder Posted February 28, 2009 Share Posted February 28, 2009 Neat tool that, and if I can install it anyone who can read and is willing to remain awake should have no difficulty. If you want a cheering HPC moment search Tideslea Path and watch the sea of red appear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickincash Posted February 28, 2009 Share Posted February 28, 2009 Funny you should say that - it was my first test! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScaredEitherWay Posted February 28, 2009 Author Share Posted February 28, 2009 (edited) I just did LS1 (Leeds). Looking just at the last 10 properties (which takes it back to September-December 2008), 6/10 sold at a loss. http://www.houseprices.co.uk/e.php?q=+ls1&n=100 Edited February 28, 2009 by ScaredEitherWay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muskoka Posted February 28, 2009 Share Posted February 28, 2009 Excellent - another toy to play with - ta very much Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahBell Posted February 28, 2009 Share Posted February 28, 2009 (edited) I've got it working now. WOW that's neat Edited February 28, 2009 by SarahBell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahBell Posted February 28, 2009 Share Posted February 28, 2009 500% increase on one property. not as many reds as I'd like to see though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScaredEitherWay Posted February 28, 2009 Author Share Posted February 28, 2009 500% increase on one property. not as many reds as I'd like to see though. Could have been a typo to start with, or it could have been a burnt wreck and they bought a big bit of land alongside and doubled the size of it and built a pool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahBell Posted February 28, 2009 Share Posted February 28, 2009 Could have been a typo to start with, or it could have been a burnt wreck and they bought a big bit of land alongside and doubled the size of it and built a pool 10k-50k Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScaredEitherWay Posted February 28, 2009 Author Share Posted February 28, 2009 10k-50k roflmfao... ah, that would have been the 3rd option of course Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahBell Posted February 28, 2009 Share Posted February 28, 2009 roflmfao... ah, that would have been the 3rd option of course I know it made me smile to see such a huge %... It's a nifty little tool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pezerinno Posted March 1, 2009 Share Posted March 1, 2009 Am I the only one having trouble installing the plugin? Thanks for the heads up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonic the Hedge Fund Posted March 1, 2009 Share Posted March 1, 2009 Am I the only one having trouble installing the plugin?Thanks for the heads up. You need to install greasemonkey first Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clv101 Posted March 1, 2009 Share Posted March 1, 2009 That saves a lot of effort! It seems that most houses brought since 2005 and sold in 2008 are selling at a loss - which is exactly what the Nationwide data is showing us. Should be interesting to see the 2009 data. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonic the Hedge Fund Posted March 1, 2009 Share Posted March 1, 2009 That saves a lot of effort! It seems that most houses brought since 2005 and sold in 2008 are selling at a loss - which is exactly what the Nationwide data is showing us. Should be interesting to see the 2009 data. My take is that houses sold at an actual loss are probably mostly forced sales. Not a great number but if you probe the history for a given area they do seem to be steadily increasing, and not forgetting that just one such sale sets a new price floor. Also very noticeable that many show very little profit since 2003 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tboy Posted March 1, 2009 Share Posted March 1, 2009 If anyone had trouble like me with this, here's the way it works: You need to be using Mozilla Firefox (which you need for PropertyBee anyway, which everyone interested in house prices should have) Install Greasemonkey first: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748 install then re-start browser (if you click the restart button on the download bit, it will restart with all the same tabs open) then go to http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/31220 and hit Install button for PropertyMonkey go to www.houseprices.co.uk, type in an area or postcode, it will bring up the properties, just roll your mouse over "Fetch" in the third column. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olliegog Posted March 1, 2009 Share Posted March 1, 2009 excellent plug-in - shame not more red in the areas I am looking in - really need the land registry figures for the last 3 months to give a real picture. Some percentage increases (up to 2007) are eye-watering Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freeholder Posted March 1, 2009 Share Posted March 1, 2009 Thanks for that - just installed the lot. Been meaning to install Firefox for some time. So thanks. Oh and it all works. Now you have got Firefox get Property Bee. Just Google the site and follow the simple instructions. No HPCer should be without it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grasshopper Posted March 1, 2009 Share Posted March 1, 2009 Great tool - easy to use - grasshopper proof. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScaredEitherWay Posted March 1, 2009 Author Share Posted March 1, 2009 Normally on houseprices.co.uk the data is updated on one of the last two days of the month, and I was a bit annoyed that there was no update on 27th Feb... which means I am expecting it to have fresh data on Monday, which will back fill those late returners (solicitors have 3 or 6 months, I forget which, to get the forms into the LR) and it will have the January data in it. So by tomorrow it should have that latest update. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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