Hi everyone,

 

 

Looking to buy a house and have been recommended to use rightmove.co.uk. However, having just used it, and now waiting for my blood pressure to gently fall back to more normal levels, I've kind of come to the conclusion that the search facility on it is really crap. They give some excuse related to postcodes as to why this is so in their online help, but to be honest they might as well just come right out with it and say, "we were too cheap to hire a programmer clever enough to solve this really not terribly hard to solve problem." .... Hmm, I think I'm still a bit irritated, you can probably tell.

 

The reason I'm so irritated is because I'm after properties basically between Cambridge and Ely, but in order to get what I want back I'm having to say tell me about properties in X village only, otherwise I get buried with all these places which are just *miles* away from where I want to be. Grr.

 

So question is this: has anybody found/used any really great sites for doing property searches? At the moment I'm back to looking at estate agents' own web pages because they're giving more useful results.

 

 

Thanks,

Bart

Whatever you do check out the site below it gives you an idea of prices in the area your looking etc Works on land registry

HOUSE PRICES

 

I have used the link below for house search its Right move

 

RIGHT MOVE

Cheers buddy, had a look at the top one. Looks pretty useful. Also if you search for "property search" on google one of the featured links at the top links to a kind of meta-search that searches various property searches... er, if that's even a proper sentence.

I'm thinking about buying too (possibly also north cambs!).

 

rightmove.co.uk is about the best I can find.

 

Just think what is was like afew years ago with no web sites and just stupid, indifferent, dishonest estate agents to help.

Yeah, it's very true: you'd have actually had to leave your desk and go out and everything. I shouldn't complain really. You having much luck?

 

I've managed to get some fairly decent results from Haart and Cheffins, although both the places I've tried to view so far have been sold before I even got to see them. Once you're in the loop and on people's mailing lists and stuff I think it probably gets easier.

Try http://www.propertyfinder.com.

The house price site can also help you in other ways, ie look how many times the house has sold in recent years, if there is a lot of sales quickly may be a problem area ?

Etc

Also shows you how much some people make in a very short period !!