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By: Maps named with the suffix -vision | Tagzania Services

Maps named with the suffix -vision | Tagzania Services — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:21:13 +0000

[...] UkPropertyVision Techcrunch says it’s like “property porn”. Well, there’s some kind of hypnotic effect in those mapvisions: Ajaxian effects moving and [...]

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Mapavisiones, mapas visuales de reclamo | Tagzania Services — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:32:56 +0000

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By: TechCrunch UK » Blog Archive » Nestoria signs partner deals for property search

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 11:33:27 +0000

[...] the investment community. Interestingly, property search engine competitor Dothomes meanwhile has publicly declared investment from The Accelerator Group (TAG), Arts Alliance, and Samos Investments, announced in August 2007, [...]

By: Dominic

Dominic — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:04:31 +0000

There are definitely some interesting things happening right now. Property-England has a SVG graphing tool for historic house prices (just enter a postcode, town, whatever). Best viewed in Firefox, Safari or Opera.

By: Property investments

Property investments — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 12:42:22 +0000

But surely someone with a bit of coding knowledge could mashup this data from Zillow et al with something from UpMyStreet.com to provide the info you’re after Paul.

By: Paul Sweeney

Paul Sweeney — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:17:47 +0000

I think I might be a little obsessed with this property mashup potential because their is so much value locked up in old fashioned information asymmetries. Accurate sales data and good trending information will have high value, that’s why zillow is pulling down such investment funding. Where I really want to see this go is into the government services sector where you can see all the government relevant services information i.e. rating of the local health centre, school, etc. etc.

By: Douglas de Jager

Douglas de Jager — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:04:47 +0000

For the curious:

Hedonic regression is a statistical method for estimating value or prices. It decomposes the item being researched into its constituent characteristics, and obtains estimates of the value of each characteristic.

By: Douglas de Jager

Douglas de Jager — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:52:53 +0000

Dear Mike.

Thanks for the review. Just a point or two to clarify.

In one line: our new feature is a property valuation plot - like a Zillow estimate through time, coupled with comparative returns on investment. (See
See http://tinyurl.com/3acvpk.)

This quite unlike the services provided elsewhere in the UK:
(1) We are not providing an average of the asking prices in our database ( http://tinyurl.com/2r2wmg ).
(2) We are not providing an average of sold price data from Land Registry. Land Registry data includes no mention of property characteristics (no room number, no floor size, no floor level, no lease period.). So, if five 3 bedroom houses in 2003 and two basement studio flats are sold in 2004 then obviously the Land Registry average for the area will drop massively. This does not mean that prices have actually fallen. (Also, Land Registry data only runs from 2000.)

Rather we are plotting valuation estimates based on hedonically modeled historical price data interpolated with current asking price data.

Also, if you click on “embed” in the statistics section, you’ll spy our widgets.

Hope all’s very well.

Best wishes,

Douglas

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http://www.dothomes.com

By: agentbleu

agentbleu — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:51:46 +0000

Great post Mike.