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Useful price drop site: daftdrop.com

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    #32
    lainey316
    Registered Users Posts: 902 ✭✭✭lainey316


    rat_race wrote: »
    Regarding filtering on house type, yes this would be nice but you risk missing properties you're interested in if you attempt to narrow it down. For example, look at these distinct types:

    Semi-Detached House
    <snip>
    Actually was thinking of myhome again - they have tiered categorisation that daft don't have. So all those house types are subtypes of house. So don't mind me - you'd have to build something on top of the daft data model to do it, a mapping table I guess.


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    #33
    Balmed Out
    Registered Users Posts: 4,716 ✭✭✭Balmed Out


    It doesnt seem to show the majority of price drops in my own area. I normally check collapso which shows up drops in the space of a year of 2 or 3 times more properties then your website. Clonakilty would be the area if you want to check.


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    #34
    rat_race
    Registered Users Posts: 988 ✭✭✭rat_race


    Balmed Out wrote: »
    It doesnt seem to show the majority of price drops in my own area. I normally check collapso which shows up drops in the space of a year of 2 or 3 times more properties then your website. Clonakilty would be the area if you want to check.

    Hey Balmed Out,

    This is because I've only been tracking data since May, so there is no possible way to know price history that occurred before this. This isn't an issue because as time goes on old price changes become less important. So my software is tracking all houses and will notice any new price changes from May onwards forever and ever and ever ;) ...


    Cheers,
    Cormac


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    #35
    Balmed Out
    Registered Users Posts: 4,716 ✭✭✭Balmed Out


    ahh makes sense. Sorry hadnt realised that


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    #36
    rat_race
    Registered Users Posts: 988 ✭✭✭rat_race


    I've addressed several of the issues mentioned in this thread. More to come.

    Cheers,
    Cormac


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    #37
    RATM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,591 ✭✭✭RATM


    Fair play rat_race, its people like yourself and their innovation that will drag Ireland out of recession.
    It may not be perfect just yet but I think this site will serve property buyers very well into the future.


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    #38
    okedoke
    Registered Users Posts: 924 ✭✭✭okedoke


    Nice site Rat Race


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    #39
    lainey316
    Registered Users Posts: 902 ✭✭✭lainey316


    Not to seem picky, but now the search is too fuzzy :) Searching for "dublin 6" brings back everything with "dublin" and "6" so no.6 someeroad drumcondra e.g., 6 bed houses anywhere in dublin, etc...


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    #40
    RasTa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,116 ✭✭✭✭RasTa


    It doesn't work on the work comp running IE7 and win XP.


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    #41
    rat_race
    Registered Users Posts: 988 ✭✭✭rat_race


    RasTa wrote: »
    It doesn't work on the work comp running IE7 and win XP.
    Sorry to hear that -- are you getting errors, or what?


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    #42
    RasTa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,116 ✭✭✭✭RasTa


    It is working now, IE being it's usual self, keeps on getting the script is causing the comp to run slow message


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    #43
    rat_race
    Registered Users Posts: 988 ✭✭✭rat_race


    Several more improvements / fixes for anyone interested.

    Thanks,
    credmond


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    #44
    Snakeblood
    Registered Users Posts: 4,466 ✭✭✭Snakeblood


    rat_race wrote: »
    Several more improvements / fixes for anyone interested.

    Thanks,
    credmond

    This is really interesting, thanks!


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    #45
    mari2222
    Registered Users Posts: 568 ✭✭✭mari2222


    search for "dublin 1" returns dublin 11,12,15 etc
    apparently there was an increase from 180k to 340k for 3 gandon house but the change is showing as a "drop" .

    looks great, is very fast, well done:)


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    #46
    Blackjack
    Registered Users Posts: 3,612 ✭✭✭Blackjack


    Great work!.


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    #47
    rat_race
    Registered Users Posts: 988 ✭✭✭rat_race


    mari2222 wrote: »
    search for "dublin 1" returns dublin 11,12,15 etc
    apparently there was an increase from 180k to 340k for 3 gandon house but the change is showing as a "drop" .

    looks great, is very fast, well done:)

    What's actually happening is that the "1", or any number, can apply to the number of bedrooms/bathrooms too. I think I'll make it so the description is not included in the text search because nobody will ever really search on number of bedrooms/bathrooms.

    With regards to 3 gandon house, it looks fine to me. It's red, it's a "+", meaning price increase. Is this not what you're seeing?

    Thanks for the feedback :)


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    #48
    rat_race
    Registered Users Posts: 988 ✭✭✭rat_race


    FYI -- for anyone interested, there are some big improvements to daftdrop.com.

    The main change is that you can now bookmark custom searches or individual houses searches, and/or share the links with others; search will happen automatically and with the same options you chose. Second biggy is that there is now a new reports section. And the third change is that there are now quick links from the homepage, county-by-county.

    There's a few other small improvements/bug fixes.


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    #49
    Lyn256
    Registered Users Posts: 857 ✭✭✭Lyn256


    Great site-I use it all the time.
    Off to check out the new improvements!! :)


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    #50
    rat_race
    Registered Users Posts: 988 ✭✭✭rat_race


    It's been a while!

    Anyway, just letting you know there's new update to www.daftdrop.com now which allows you to receive house price change e-mail notifcations...very handy.

    Graphs are looking a bit nicer too.


    Thanks,
    Cormac


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    #51
    Muzi5434
    Registered Users Posts: 272 ✭✭Muzi5434


    Very useful, thanks!:)


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    #52
    davet82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    nice work, thank you :)


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    #53
    Sleepy
    Registered Users Posts: 24,238 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    Nice work, a fine advert for your skills, I've just emailed it onto a couple of friends.

    Have you given any more thought to including myhome.ie into the site? Could return some interesting data even where the same house exists on both sites (e.g. movements on one site ahead of the other etc.)


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    #54
    davet82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    i'd love to see a top 100 price drop list added to the site or something along them lines


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    #55
    dearg lady
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,091 ✭✭✭dearg lady


    Is it not a bit unusual to have the minus figure in green, and plus in red, seems like it would make more sense the other way! :)


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    #56
    Snakeblood
    Registered Users Posts: 4,466 ✭✭✭Snakeblood


    dearg lady wrote: »
    Is it not a bit unusual to have the minus figure in green, and plus in red, seems like it would make more sense the other way! :)

    It's for people who want to buy. Green is better, red is worse.


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    #57
    dearg lady
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,091 ✭✭✭dearg lady


    Snakeblood wrote: »
    It's for people who want to buy. Green is better, red is worse.

    I dunno, to me it's irrelevant which is better or worse, minuses are always in red, but that's probably so instilled in me because of my job! :)


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    #58
    rat_race
    Registered Users Posts: 988 ✭✭✭rat_race


    Sleepy wrote: »
    Have you given any more thought to including myhome.ie into the site? Could return some interesting data even where the same house exists on both sites (e.g. movements on one site ahead of the other etc.)
    A few people have mentioned that...and I had considered it, but myhome.ie have actually noe provided their own price drop search facility on their site. It's not great, but it works.

    The reason I didn't mix the two (daft.ie and myhome.ie) together is that firstly most houses seem to also end up on daft...particularly if they don't sell on myhome.ie. Or so I've been told/led to believe, I am not 100% sure -- I could be totally wrong. Secondly, you end up with tonnes of duplicate data to manage and inevitably it's going to be impossible to figure out with accracy, with house maps to the houses from myhome.ie. There is no key or link between the two. Decription/name/address, whatever helps,...but often it's not enough.
    dearg lady wrote: »
    Is it not a bit unusual to have the minus figure in green, and plus in red, seems like it would make more sense the other way! :)

    A few people have also said that...it's just a visual cue to quickly sort. But yeah, the thinking is that green is good, red is bad...are you an estate agent? :D



    Anyway, thanks all for the comments -- I do take them all on board.


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    #59
    dearg lady
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,091 ✭✭✭dearg lady


    rat_race wrote: »

    A few people have also said that...it's just a visual cue to quickly sort. But yeah, the thinking is that green is good, red is bad...are you an estate agent? :D

    Ha, no chance! Accountant, so I'm used to seeing minus figures in red :) It's funny how we have these colour associations when ya think about it.


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    #60
    Sleepy
    Registered Users Posts: 24,238 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    davet82 wrote: »
    i'd love to see a top 100 price drop list added to the site or something along them lines
    That's a great idea, should be pretty quick to implement too?


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    #61
    Lawrence1895
    Registered Users Posts: 7,627 ✭✭✭Lawrence1895


    Is there any chance of adding the price foe rented accommodation?

    It's seems to be a brilliant website, no doubt about that, but I'm more interested in renting, rather that buying and maybe, I'm not the only one ;)


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