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Curious, i know of a number of houses that have sold recently, well 3-9 months ago, but the prices aren't anywhere to be found, i have tried the land registry public data and various websites.
Is there a reason why the prices might not be in the public domain?
Is there any reason why they might be?
Unless there is some legal reason I doubt anyone would bother.
there's a legal mechanism for the price to be lodged with the registry paperwork. its automatic
The house we sold in June's sale price was available online by August, forget the website I saw it on though.
This is the one I look at, there's a few gaps but I think they are properties that haven't changed hands recently: http://www.mouseprice.com/house-prices
mouseprice? if thats what you are after?
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As @Stoner says it should be lodged with the land registery
The only reason I can think of why not is they are very high value properties which are held as assets in companies and whilst the ownership of the company changes the house deeds stay the same. This is how people avoid stamp duty.
They do seem to miss some for some reason.
Our house has never appeared on any of the house price websites. We got worried enough to speak to the Land Registry directly who assured us it was all fine and we definitely had the deeds in our name etc.
FWIW I use http://www.zoopla.co.uk which is pretty good.
We brought our house last year and it still isn't on any of those websites.
There has been a few houses sold since we brought ours too, and yet the last update on any of these types of websites was from feb 2011.
three houses next to me have all been sold, yet none of the prices appear. The only thing i can think of is that they were repossessed and sold on.
I am just curious really, i thought all sales were put on by the land registry but it seems not...
I think repos & bank sales don't get posted on sites like nethouseprices.com
Govt doesn't want to wreck the mkt.
You want to use this site [url= http://houseprices.landregistry.gov.uk/ ]Land Registry [/url]
All sales are recorded with Land Registry but for stats some are excluded from release figures, these include in areas where sale volumes are very low, sales over a certain threshold etc.
As above, repo's don't get onto the land registry, neither do auction sales IIRC as apparently they don't reflect market value.
It could be argued that houses sold at auction are the best reflection of market value (in my opinion).
You want to use this site Land Registry
And my house isn't on that either (normal sale, Dec 2007, not an auction or repo)
IIRC in 2007 providing price paid information (and recording it) was optional so your transaction could have been registered without it.
Interesting, cheers bagpuss.
Ask an estate agent? Had house valued recently and estate agent brought around list of everything sold recently and historically back to 2006ish