Property Price Register Website-Online 30-Sep-2012.

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A national property price register for Ireland was mentioned as far back as early 2010 – and it finally looks like it is becoming a reality .
According to the Property Services Regulatory Authority (PSRA) – the the new Residential Property Prices Register will be available online from the 30th September. (A Sunday!)

The new website is www.propertypriceregister.ie and it will be available to the general public to view actual sale prices for all property sold in Ireland since January 2010 . It is expected to be a great help to potential homebuyers who will now be able to see actual sale prices instead of asking prices .

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One of the guys on the Property Pin has developed a programme which reads the register much more easily.

It goes by the unfortunate name of [broken link removed]

But it is an Irish property site. I gather that the use of the word porn refers to auctioneers' brochures.

Discussed here on The Pin

Brendan

What is this thing?

salesporn.net was born from this thread on thepropertypin.com, where a user made some claims about volumes of properties on MyHome.ie that are removed each day. Scripts were scripted, programmes were programmed and the claims were quickly disproved. evilal decided to start gathering the data on an ongoing, automated basis and make it available to anyone who wants to use it. What data do you have?

I have data on properties listed in Dublin on myhome.ie since 9/11/12. It is gathered approximately daily.




What else can you do with the data?

I am also gathering data on estate agents for each property, to build league tables of how long it takes to go Sale Agreed with each agent, how many sales fall through with each agent etc, but these require quite a bit more data. Want a different visualisation?

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jpd said:
-99999 The search criteria are so restrictive and having to enter a Captcha each times means that the search mechanism has been made as difficult as possible for some reason!
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+1 Appalling design. Have these people never heard of Google Maps?
 
There is a download function on the RHS. Just Select All Counties and All Months and specify the year. You'll then get all data for the whole country for that year.
 

+2 really bad design. How did I know this would happen. What is the obsession in the Irish gov with Lotus Notes aswell?
 
The search function is appalling. Terrible interface, terrible design, looks like it was coded by an absolute beginner. Why on earth do you have to re-enter the captcha each time? Why not use google maps or similar to look for houses in the area that interests you?

What would be really handy also would be a listing of its asking price alongside its sale price.
 
its good to see it has actually gone on line tho.

very interesting to see what price some of the houses i looked at actually went for!
 

Give it a few days and someone will have this done on a third party website - there's already some people analysing the data on the propertypin site
 
Updated the data to opendata.socrata.com/dataset/Ireland-Property-Prices-2010-2012-Sept/79zt-qqb2 to make analysis and searching easier.
 
truthseeker said:
Lol - and we wonder why the country is broke, money was paid for the real website and months were spent designing/planning/coding/testing, and for free something immensely easier to use appears within hours.
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Its a pretty poor site,not having the number of bedrooms is a bit of a drawback,why this wasn't introduced years ago is a complete mystery...or is it?
 
Knuttell said:
Its a pretty poor site,not having the number of bedrooms is a bit of a drawback,why this wasn't introduced years ago is a complete mystery...or is it?
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Yes, there isnt a lot of information, although going forward one would hope that it has been designed with placeholders in the database for more info such as size/number of rooms/type of house (semi-d, terrace etc).

The data has a lot of woeful errors as well, some stuff that even a cursory eyeball check would have shown as wrong like Cork and Limerick being added as county names to places in Dublin xx postcodes.
 
A house I sold in 2011 shows up @ 7k less than I got for it. I guess the purchaser stated that there was 7k worth of flooring or appliances or whatever to reduce their stamp duty (albeit by only €70) . . assuming one can still do that then the prices shown could be less that was actually paid.
 
There seems to be an error on houses prices. The house i bought in 2010 is down for 29k less than what i actually paid for it. And my friends house is 22k less than what she paid . Not very reliable
 
Prices are based on the amount you paid stamp duty on.

The balance was probably written down as 'contents' .... for 'tax purposes'.
 
Forgive my ignorance on this but the house was a new build so was excempt from stamp duty ,so i thought .
 
Which renders the thing at least partially useless as a price comparison tool. D'Oh!
 
My thoughts exactly my friend who bought a new build in 2011 would have paid 1% stamp duty yet her house is 21k less on this website . Does this not devalue properties more as it does not reflect the true price paid .
If i was to sell my house in the morning the potential purchaser would look at this website and think i paid 29k less than i acually did and offer me a well below market value
 
This new site which gives the actual price paid for a house is totally inacurrate . I did some digging of sale prices around 2010 the time that i was buying
so as well as my own house which is down for 29k less than what i paid, 2 other houses that i looked at are down as sold for 10k and 90k .
Now if they did sell for that price i would have snapped their hands off . 10k for a 4 bed i don't think so. Where are they getting their figures from . Friends that have bought in the last 2 years have also said their actual price paid is also wrong.
 
New houses show the price less VAT @ 13.5% - does this make the figures correct for those that say they are showing less than what was paid for the house?
 
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