UK site of the day

http://www.nethouseprices.com/

This site lets you see the prices that individual houses and flats sold for (using data from the Land Registry). You need to register before you can see the prices.

At the moment it is completely free, they are going to start charging for recent sales soon.

Very helpful for working out how much your house is/may be worth.

Looks like my house has gone up £100k in four years. I'm rich, I'm rich, I'm rich...

...of course every other house in the area has gone up the same.

Aye - but equity is always a good thing

Cheers Andy, have just spent an interesting half hour looking at local house prices (I'm in the market to sell soon so I found it very useful).

Never ceases to amaze me what you learn on this BBS

Yup, definately one of the most interesting sites I've seen and one to add to my dad's "nosey b'stard" bookmark folder (his favourite being local planning applications with all plans and objections downloadable as PDFs)

Gareth

There's similar sites for the US, as well. My cube-neighbour recently bought a condo, and he had a number of printouts from some website that showed that sort of thing. Unfortunately, that was a while ago, so I can't provide a link.