DungBeetle Posted October 25, 2010 Share Posted October 25, 2010 Hi All, I am hoping one of the HPC Cognoscenti can help. When I use Property Bee (say via Right Move), I only seem to see history related to the times I have performed a search, so for example: A house goes on sale on the 1st of October, I do my search on the 10th, the Property Bee added date is 10th October. Surely there is a global database available to Property Bee for price / description changes. Am I missing some subtle setting? Thanks, Dung Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Masked Tulip Posted October 25, 2010 Share Posted October 25, 2010 Hi All, I am hoping one of the HPC Cognoscenti can help. When I use Property Bee (say via Right Move), I only seem to see history related to the times I have performed a search, so for example: A house goes on sale on the 1st of October, I do my search on the 10th, the Property Bee added date is 10th October. Surely there is a global database available to Property Bee for price / description changes. Am I missing some subtle setting? Thanks, Dung Yes, it means no one else is looking in your area using PB. You are the one generating the PB database for your area and hence you will have to do a search daily in order to build up the PB database in your area. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pent Up Posted October 25, 2010 Share Posted October 25, 2010 Check that you are working 'in a bee' I think you have to have this option selected to see other peoples discoveries. If not, it's what TMT said. What's the search area? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azbola Posted October 25, 2010 Share Posted October 25, 2010 Why doesn't the Bee have a web crawler to do this? It should be a piece of p1ss to do a complete search on rightmove for each major postcode. Legal issues? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyoto Posted October 25, 2010 Share Posted October 25, 2010 It is because you are not in a bee. You have to sign up and then you will see the global data. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pent Up Posted October 25, 2010 Share Posted October 25, 2010 Why doesn't the Bee have a web crawler to do this? It should be a piece of p1ss to do a complete search on rightmove for each major postcode. Legal issues? It's against rightmoves policy to have an automatic searching program to pick up changes but PB gets round this by only updating when the pages are viewed by users. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timm Posted October 25, 2010 Share Posted October 25, 2010 Check that you are working 'in a bee' I think you have to have this option selected to see other peoples discoveries... It is because you are not in a bee. You have to sign up and then you will see the global data. Yes. The option is in one of the drop down menues in the toll bar across the top of the window. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Don't Surf Posted October 25, 2010 Share Posted October 25, 2010 Is there a shared comments option on PB? I couldn't find one but it'd be quite satisfying being able to write overpriced sh!thole next to a few places I've seen! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Englaender Posted October 26, 2010 Share Posted October 26, 2010 Assumed this was going to be a thread about the PB server being down. Unless that's only happening to me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahBell Posted October 26, 2010 Share Posted October 26, 2010 I think rightmove have changed their site today. I have had some errors about backing up again from property bee. The new layout looks sh&te imo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tired of Waiting Posted October 26, 2010 Share Posted October 26, 2010 Yes. The option is in one of the drop down menues in the toll bar across the top of the window. + 1 You must click "work in bee", under the tab "options" on the property bee tool-bar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tunnel Vision Posted October 27, 2010 Share Posted October 27, 2010 Why is it that when you click on the little person icon, with the speech bubble, within the Property Bee information it comes up saying "found by n/a". It used to say give you the info of the original finder but now all I get is n/a on all the properties I look at. Cheers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reck B Posted October 27, 2010 Share Posted October 27, 2010 Is there a shared comments option on PB? I couldn't find one but it'd be quite satisfying being able to write overpriced sh!thole next to a few places I've seen! This is actually a great idea. Should even be added to rightmove itself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tunnel Vision Posted October 27, 2010 Share Posted October 27, 2010 probably a user who clicked anonymous Maybe but its on all the properties I look at, they can't all be anonymous. Maybe my I've fiddled with my settings by accident. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tired of Waiting Posted October 27, 2010 Share Posted October 27, 2010 thanks,fully up and running now. bump for others. You're welcome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Normal Posted October 27, 2010 Share Posted October 27, 2010 Why is it that when you click on the little person icon, with the speech bubble, within the Property Bee information it comes up saying "found by n/a". It used to say give you the info of the original finder but now all I get is n/a on all the properties I look at. The "found by user" was slowing things down and could have been seen as a privacy issue, so was removed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tunnel Vision Posted October 28, 2010 Share Posted October 28, 2010 The "found by user" was slowing things down and could have been seen as a privacy issue, so was removed. Thanks for the reply Hara, problem solved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Masked Tulip Posted October 28, 2010 Share Posted October 28, 2010 Interestingly, I just did my usual search and was shocked to see 84 properties - looks like one EA is uploading all of their houses in my local search area. Problem is, whilst the info on the address, EA, etc, is still there the histories of price changes have completely disappeared on each house. I am not sure whether this will re-appear later on today or whether by re-uploading they have managed to eradicate all the price history? I have seen this before on a small scale when the have done this with one or two houses and then, several hours later, the price change history repears after they have dropped the asking price. But I can't believe they are about to drop the price on 80-plus houses? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Masked Tulip Posted October 28, 2010 Share Posted October 28, 2010 jsut seena big rental LL in Leicester change the price of 20+student hosues when I did a 24 hour.jsut taking a couple of quid off but still... Interesting - the price is missing from Property Bee on each of the EA listings that I mentioned above. The RM text is there with the price in bold but PB is missing the price in all 80-odd houses. I am wondering, and getting excited, that perhaps they are going to drop all the asking prices. Surely not. This EA btw is the one that I consider realistic about the market. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Masked Tulip Posted October 28, 2010 Share Posted October 28, 2010 So if an EA re-uploads its stock, or part of its stock, property bee loses all the historic price change info? This seems to have happened with one EA I am tracking re parts of its stock. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Masked Tulip Posted October 28, 2010 Share Posted October 28, 2010 that woudl eb amazing but doutb it would happen,thisLA is acting probably for one big owner.woudl be ahrd to do it for 80+properties,sorry to dissappoint Looks like they have just relisted the stock in one of their offices - never seen them do this before - but it has wiped out all the historic data of when they came on, original asking price, etc, etc. It is no big thing as, frankly, I know what the market is worth IMPO, etc, etc. It looks as if everything is new today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bankside Posted October 28, 2010 Share Posted October 28, 2010 Looks like they have just relisted the stock in one of their offices - never seen them do this before - but it has wiped out all the historic data of when they came on, original asking price, etc, etc. It is no big thing as, frankly, I know what the market is worth IMPO, etc, etc. It looks as if everything is new today. Lets be honest, their staff have probably plenty of time on their hands......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Masked Tulip Posted October 28, 2010 Share Posted October 28, 2010 Lets be honest, their staff have probably plenty of time on their hands......... That was my thought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oh Dear Posted October 28, 2010 Share Posted October 28, 2010 Looks like they have just relisted the stock in one of their offices - never seen them do this before - but it has wiped out all the historic data of when they came on, original asking price, etc, etc. It is no big thing as, frankly, I know what the market is worth IMPO, etc, etc. It looks as if everything is new today. Probably worth doing if you are an EA without many other pressing engagements; gets your properties into the 'find properties listed in the last...' category- which is all I ever use as I run a search every day to keep down the leg mousework. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Masked Tulip Posted October 28, 2010 Share Posted October 28, 2010 Probably worth doing if you are an EA without many other pressing engagements; gets your properties into the 'find properties listed in the last...' category- which is all I ever use as I run a search every day to keep down the leg mousework. They have turned up on Globrix as well as 'new'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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