When you claim your free membership of House Price Spy you get access to millions of sold house price since 2000 in England, Scotland and Wales. Apart from that there are various other ways to gain from free membership…
House Price Spy members benefits are as follows:
Email notifications when houses are sold in your chosen areas.
Statistics and comparisons - clearly compare streets, houses, area, regions and even countries.
Save areas you are interested in for future reference.
See unlimited house prices from across the UK.
Get exclusive competions, offers and deals from propety related store.
The chance to opt in for our regular newsletter with notifications and offers.
Membership is 100% free, we ask that you give a working email to complete the joining process. We do not pass any details you give us to third party companies and are pround to be a part of the Data Protection Act.
Posted in General September 1st, 2008 by Kenny | No comments
House Price Spy will occasionally bring you relevant offers from property related stores and services. This is to aid us in bringing you free house prices. This week we bring you Norwich Union home Insurance who have famously high quality cover and some great deals when you buy online.
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Posted in General August 26th, 2008 by Kenny | No comments
Some questions you may ask about House Price Spy, and the free service we offer in general.
Why do you only have data from 2000? The Land Registry system was only set up to format data and release it that way from the year 2000. We may be able to get earlier data but this is not currently available at the present time.
Why dont you cover Northern Ireland Or The South of Ireland? There is no system to collect and release data such as we have for England and Wales or Scotland.
My house was sold last month and is not yet featured on the site, why is this? It takes from 4 to 6 weeks for the government bodies involved to release data so there will be a slight delay between a property being sold and it being detailed on House Price Spy
Why can you release data that is private to me? All data is Public Domain and can be looked up by anyone. We are part of the Data Protection Scheme which legislates how we can use and store this data safely.
How acurate is the data you publish? The data is exactly as given to us by the Land Registry and Registers of Scotland, updates and corrections are made regularly to resolve any technical issues arising before we received the data.
How do you manage to run the site without charging for data? We have selected relevant advertising on the site such as home insurance and broadband providers. Please see the great deals we have to help support the site.
These are just a few of the question our members have asked over the almost 3 years we have been live, if you have any of your own contact us at the main site.
Posted in General August 18th, 2008 by Kenny | No comments
House Price Spy V2 has had even more improvements in the last few days, with new and updated pages and features added. We have added updated version of pages from the old site plus a few new pages that are brand new to the new version of the site.
The following pages and features have been added:
Property Market Tips - Make the most of your property with the right DIY, presentation and layout.
Buying A House - Borrowing, bidding, getting a mortgage and dealing with estate agents.
Selling Your House - Financial stuff, preparing your property for sale and setting targets.
Member Benefits- Apart from getting millions of item of government data which would ususally cost £1 each you get quite a few fringe benefits with membership of House Price Spy: Watch Lists, SatNav or temporary watch listings, Property Alerts, Statistical Graphs for each result page, Newsletters, Email Updates, Property Trends, Areas such as Greatest Activity and Fastest Rising Areas.
Useful Links - Sometimes you are better having a number before you need it, we have tracked down sites that will make every aspect of owning, buying and running your home easier from Gas Safety and kiddie safety to ombudsmen, financial stuff and ‘tax and allowances’.
There will be more added to the site in the weeks to come, as always we have plans to add more functions as time goes on that will allow you to more with the data we have.
Posted in General August 15th, 2008 by Kenny | No comments
As mentioned in a previous blog, House Price Spy has been totally rethought and expanded with a contemporary new look and we have taken the opportunity to add new features and functions.
While you can see most of the changes in terms of navigation and cosmetics I think it would be good to go through some of the more technological alterations.
SatNav - A new function which allows you to compare and get statistics on streets/areas/towns without saving them to your watch list. Select areas to be compared and go to Satnav at the top left and then click on ‘Create Reports’ to compare stats on these areas.
My Alerts - You can manage what commications we send you and what updates you receive and how (and how often) you receive. Choose as many results pages you wish and get alerted when there is any activity.
Useful Links section - an all new links section with links to variosu property related sites such as government data, TV tips, moving/selling tips and property finance.
We have added a list of trusted merchants selling broadband and car insurance and easy to understand graphs for each result page.
Posted in General August 11th, 2008 by Kenny | No comments
As promised in recent weeks we have given House Price Spy a complete overhaul in terms of cosmetic stuff, navigation of the site, content, extra functions and the way the site works!
The site will now be easier to use and move between pages while retaining all the things that make House Price Spy a market leader such as gargon free property information, easy stats and simple comparision features.
There are a few new functions which add to many things you can do with the data we provide, the Sat Nav function allows you to compare streets and areas without saving them for just a temporary search. Get to the street or area you are interested in and click on the individual entries you want to compare, then click on ‘Stats’ at the top left of the screen, to create your Unique Property Report just select the streets/areas and we will do the rest!! There are now loads of things you can do with the information we provide, there are more helping hints on site but it should all be fairly self explanatory!
As you can see we have had a fancy new facelift, with a new logo and colourscheme, which will help us get a distinctive brand recognisable to all.
House Price Spy offers free unlimted property prices , statistics and information related to the property market and finance. We are a market leader with the best data available updated monthly, unique search structure and innovative functions to allow you to use the data! There are so many ways you can use the data, so many reasons for knowing what your property is worth! General interest, valuations, insurance and millions more!!!
See the changes and start using the new funstions at House Price Spy!!!
Posted in General August 6th, 2008 by Kenny | No comments
House Price Spy has been around for quite a while now providing everyone with millions of property prices from England, Wales and Scotland since 2000. This data is purchased from official government sources such as The Land Registry, Registers Of Scotland and The Royal Mail and are regulated and updated on a monthly basis to ensure all data is correct and complete.
Other organisations are charging up to £2 for each sale price, so you are saving cash on each search.
When you are looking for data please bear in mind that it takes up to 2 months for sales to appear and even then it can take longer for certain sales depending on factors such as legal papers being signed and exchanged etc. If you dont see a particular sale then there may be a reason for this. Also bear in mind that we reproduce the information we are given and have no control over errors and ommisions made at government department level. We do get a significant number of emails from members of the public wanting to change or omit details. All this data is Public Domain information available to anyone, and we are entitled by our license with ROS, Data Protection, Land Registry and the Royal Mail to reproduce it as we please, once you register the sale of your home this data comes under Public Domain rules like the register of births and deaths and the Companies House database.
You are free to get in touch with us via our contact form, we value your feedback, especially as a fairly new company striving to improve and give customers what they want while developing new services and hopefully new websites using the House Price Spy brand in the future.
We have recently started sending our regular emails with updates on chosen areas and will be switching over to our brand new site layout in the next couple of weeks with easier navigation and more focused structure.
We have only been running this site for just over 2 years and we have already seen a lot of changes and improvements, with plenty of plans for new statistical and service based goodies which will raise us further above the pack!! Dont waste your money on paying for FREE house price details or waste your time with awkward sites carrying errors or limited results, free house prices at House Price Spy!
Posted in General August 4th, 2008 by Kenny | No comments
The main property related story in the news this morning was the giant rise in utility price from one of the UK’s largest providers British Gas who are raising their prices by 25% for gas and 9% for electric.
With many other companies sure to follow, you will want to get the best value deal for your families utility bills, there are a few ways to ensure you are not wasting your precious cash on un-competitive suppliers.
Energy Helpline are a free website who promise to save you up to £365 per year on your bills (based on an average family home), with no forms to fill in and no-one will visit your property. Just fill in a short online form with simple details such as your address, usage estimates and a few other information and Energy Helpline will do the rest. Its great knowing you are getting the best deal and we could all do with less paperwork
Start saving on your energy bills today with Energy Helpline!
See your other energy options at House Price Spy Energy
With property prices down and wages down the rising prices for energy, food etc seem even more extreme .
Posted in General July 31st, 2008 by Kenny | No comments
The financial news this week is not too good, US lender IndyMac has gone bust and Washington Mutual is on the brink of bankrupcy. The US property market is down 20% on peak values from 2007, while the UK market is down by an average of around 9%.
Some financial institutions are aiming at a turn round date of 2012 or 2013, when we can expect growth in property prices.
On the bright side the mere fact that we are living linger and gettijg divorced more means that there will always be demand for new property, this will be no solace for sellers who have lost out in recent months but means the current slump can only last for so long.
House Price Spy means you get all the property details you want before you spend any cash, the data goies back to 2001 and is all official government data served up with statistics, advice and links to great property related websites.
Posted in General July 28th, 2008 by Kenny | No comments
The global property market has also been effected by downturn that we have seen in the UK, these stme from a lack of finance, consumer confidence and the poor £ against the Euro etc. Here are a few examples of the markets:
Spain - there has been a massive overbuild of primary and holiday homes and this has led to prices falling rapidly with many builders out of pocket.
Eastern Europe - Prices are still relatively strong due to the low price of land and cheap cost of living.
China - Prices were 15% up in 2007 due to the Olympic games but have fallen back somewhat. Expect London property prices to see a similar rise nearer 2012.
Turkey - The market has slowed down, but is still seen as a strong market.
Northern Ireland- NI was one of the major success stories of 2006 and 2007 and has now seen the sharpest fall outside London dropping by a huge 20% in the last year.
If anyone has experience of buying or building abroad please comment and let us know
Posted in General July 25th, 2008 by Kenny | No comments
