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Re:Value your home by comparing to your neighbours' (UK) by buserror on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @08:34AM (#11487586)
Tried it, but I found that judging by a single picture whether my house is 'more' or 'less' is too limiting. I honestly tried to tweak it afterward to see if the valuation would make a bit more sense, but it didn't.

FYI I bought my house 415k 2 years ago, zoopla tells me it's now worth 550k, and 'getagent' first estimate was... >900k! After tweaking it was still 770k (!) - Mind you some rather shitty houses seems to have sold for quite a lot but still...

Re:Value your home by comparing to your neighbours' (UK) by daledavies on Friday April 15, 2016 @03:21AM (#11502751)
I live in a dorma bungalow and it only showed me pictures of houses (which generally cost a little more), may be worthwhile asking a few more questions about the type of property than just how many bedrooms?
Re:Value your home by comparing to your neighbours' (UK) by TheArtOfGear on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @09:16AM (#11487831)
Tried it. It was pretty accurate. Valued the same as the Estate Agents valued it last week.
Re:Value your home by comparing to your neighbours' (UK) by buserror on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @03:20PM (#11491334)
So that is... traditionally very inflated so you are tempted to sell it, and they will lower the price afterward once you're committed because they are not paid a percentage anyway.

Ahhh estate agents, my favourites...

Re:Value your home by comparing to your neighbours' (UK) by noja on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @05:00AM (#11486749)
Nice idea. How does it account for rising prices since the picture and data was captured?
Re:Value your home by comparing to your neighbours' (UK) by petertb on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @05:09AM (#11486780)
We use the area average growth price. But the idea is we are looking at properties that sold very recently, so the rise in price is not such an issue.
Re:Value your home by comparing to your neighbours' (UK) by noja on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @05:19AM (#11486802)
10% inflation is the current rate there. How recent are you looking?
Re:Value your home by comparing to your neighbours' (UK) by samoli on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @04:22PM (#11491855)
I tried it on a house I just sold. It was only £1000 off.
Re:Value your home by comparing to your neighbours' (UK) by chelseathomas01 on Thursday April 14, 2016 @09:06AM (#11496290)
Used & liked!