New web site showing house prices.

http://www.ourproperty.co.uk/

Gives 20 free searches per week once you register (for free). The prices are the actual sale price (from the Land Registry office). Very useful if you're looking to move (or just being nosey about your neighbours houses).

Col

www.upmystreet.com gives quarterly average house sale prices for a given postcode you enter (unlimited searches), for various types of house too. It takes the first part of the postcode, e.g. S11, and then the number from the second part, as the area that the sale prices relate to, so it's fairly specific.

Originally posted by t020
www.upmystreet.com gives quarterly average house sale prices for a given postcode you enter (unlimited searches), for various types of house too. It takes the first part of the postcode, e.g. S11, and then the number from the second part, as the area that the sale prices relate to, so it's fairly specific.

That's the one I use. It helps to couple it with some local knowledge though. If they've been building appartments recently, it'll skew the figures for 'flats' in the area, so if you own a flat in Sharrow, don't think it's suddenly worth zillions more - it's the Wards development that's skewed the figures.

The advantage of www.ourproperty.co.uk is that you can look up individual property sale prices. So, for instance, you can look up a house that you got outbidded on and find out how much it actually went for.

The site seems to be up to date to summer of last year and has prices stretching back to 2000. It provides much more specific info than www.upmystreet.com

Originally posted by ear8dmg
The advantage of www.ourproperty.co.uk is that you can look up individual property sale prices. So, for instance, you can look up a house that you got outbidded on and find out how much it actually went for.
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That's what I was getting at.
I can see that a house we bid on 18 months ago went for £30,000 more than the asking price.

Wow, just checked how much a few of the properties presently on sale in sheffield were bought for by the vendors.
They are hoping to get at least 100,000 pounds more as profit for something they bought 2 years ago!
Most of us wouldnt be able to save that much over a lifetime!!!! House Prices are presently really ridiculous!! No wonder decent hard working people FTBs are finding it impossible to buy houses as the greedy vendors and EAs are minting money!