Property Snake is a cool site. It scrapes data from other property portals and tracks reductions in advertised prices. Rightmove and the rest will flag a property as having had a price reduction, but will never reveal by how much. Of course most large reductions just reflect unrealistic initial pricing, but there is a distinct difference between the number and size of price reductions in Cardiff and that in Hertfordshire.
As you might guess, my interest is in selling a flat in Cardiff. The sad news is that I am unlikely to get any more for it in pound terms, than I paid for it five years ago. So much for demand outstripping supply, and so much for the reports by Kate Barker and others that we need to build more homes in the UK.
Property Snake seems to source its data from Oodle. I have not come across this site before, but it seems to be really rather good - it aggregates advertisements from some very disparate sources - certainly local papers (Herts24) and from eBay. I am not sure it collects them from Gumtree and Craigslist - if it did it would really be the first choice for finding something locally.
