Completely agree.

People need to grow up here and get the fup on with it. Who cares who knows what you paid for the house. Won’t you know what their sonny Timmy paid in return.

There will be many people who’ll look over the data for the last few years and see that they were shafted and lied to during the sales process.

I don’t know about you but when I make large financial transactions I rarely want them publicised on the Internet.

Maybe it’s just me.

I’m completely torn on this.
While I can understand the reasoning of it, I too don’t feel comfortable having that information available for anybody to see.

Caring what the neighbours might think vs another property bubble and crash and being one of the few countries int the modern world without a transparent housing market.

I’ll take reality and hard facts anyday. It might be the talk of the parish for a few days but i’d be happier knowing that I paid a fair price rather than bidding against oneself like many did during the boom.

One house I looked at on the Reg in March sold for 275. A Similar house in August sold for 185.

90k is a lot of money to be loosing because people are frightened of what the neighbours might think.

This should be achievable without this level of detail.

Publicised and available are different things. People have general idea what is paid. It also doesn’t show your name. Yes it can be pieced together but any house advertised online in the last few years can be looked up anyway.

it’s in everyone’s interest to have this information available. Although, they could make the same information available in graphs, with as much level of detail without the exact address. For example, if I search a specific housing estate it could give you the average sale price per month in that estate, or even a list for that estate without the house number, but with the price paid for the property, and the price per square metre.

Having said that, it doesn’t really bother me that the address is available. Over here when you’re looking at the equivalent of myhome.ie, when you click on a property you can see if there are any bids, and if you click through you get a full list of the current and all historical bids. It looks like this:

bidder 1: €99,000
bidder 2: €105,000
bidder 1: €110,000
bidder 3: €115,000

etc….

very useful.

well i just looked up my house that i bought in 2010 and the price.is.completely wrong. so its not giving the right prices so what’s the point

@timmy, my house is correct on this register, now i know for sure I didnt get ripped off.

I gave up already. They never seem to work for me.

you’re obviously bots. :-D
Although why a bot would care about this information is beyond me. It is annoying as hell though. not need for it at all.

It’s easier if you just download the information for the area you are interested in rather than using the search: http://www.propertypriceregister.ie/Website/npsra/pprweb.nsf/PPRDownloads?OpenForm. Your result is a CSV file that you can then put it into something like Excel where you can sort it and filter it whatever way you want.

I gave up. Useless.

Good work whoever was in charge of that…sack them…oh no..wait..we can’t…they are prob off sick anyway…oh well

And prob get their increment this year…

the purchaser was probably a niece or a nephew of someone on the corpo anyway…

The UI sucks big time. Better off to go to the Download instead of the Search section and get all the data for the area you are interested in. Then run it through Excel or some other data analysis tool.

agreed, it seems particularly pointless having Captcha when you can simply download the entire database (well per year anyway)…..

Well said lad…we are learning at long last…some people might not like it but is for the greater good… Good to see things changing.

Snore…it’s coming no matter how much u don’t want to pay tralaalaala

Indeed, could have the potential effect of turning the market before it’s actually bottomed out. If people are seeing houses selling in their area for around €160,000 then they’re not likely to want to accept less for their own property are they?

The housing and property market is at the root of the destruction of the Irish economy. This is the first significant step in debunking all the myths and mystery that drove the market during the 2000’s. A registry like this could well have put the brakes on the totally insane speculations and price jumps that have left the country on its knees.

Transparency is always a good thing. Stops all the lies, bluffing ans spin that weve been subjected to for years

I think people were waiting in vain.
What a load of utter rubbish.
Unlike other similar search engines in developed countries, It doesn’t indicate whether the property is a derelict ruin or a 10 bedroom luxury home with a swimming pool.
One of the property descriptions had no more than the name of the town that the property was situated in.
Well I suppose what should we expect in this banana republic.

Dont worry the Government,NAMA and Banker cronies will still be getting all the correct, precise relevant data (and bargains) behind closed doors.

Wait for our ”fine” media scholars and spindoctors to get their grubby little hands on this so that they can start proclaiming the ”great bargains” out there 50/60/70% the false ponzi boom time prices.

I see that many of the sales in 2010 and 2011 seem to be contracts signed on new developments in the tail end of the boom,
the builders must have finally scared the purchasers into coming up with the reddies, to buy the cowboy built shoebox squats that they wanted to back out off.

The banks that we own might even throw out a few small token mortgages to the common folk,
so that some of us can pick up the dirty scraps that fall of their tables like Priory Hall and the likes.

The banks hold our deposits.
They say that they are lending.
They are not lending to us.
We own the banks.
Do we not have the right to know who they are lending to?
Or are we to correctly assume that they are only lending to their cronies, a lot of whom stash their savings securely offshore in other countries?

Ermm Harry if you are looking for a house in an area you will see those that are derelict or not…are people gone so far that they can’t use common sense or is it another cheap non thought out silly comment that appears from those that want to be negative about progress????

Are you saying that you can’t get a loan Harry? Maybe you were too negative about things on the application form?

Without going of the subject Mick.
Maybe you should ask the people who were conned into buying Priory Hall (or a few council engineers) about the definition of derelict.

The most obvious fact is that our ”fine government scholars” spent years and no doubt millions of euros of our money on this piece of rubbish.
When half assed property websites in a developed country have far more accurate, transparant search tools for a fraction of the cost.
But oh sorry, I forgot the Irish government don’t do transparency or low cost.

Oh god…why do i bother answering stupid comments….Property websites my friend show asking prices…these are the “sold” prices…this is the whole point of it..read it up…educate yourself lad

Sorry Mick I didn’t realise that you obviously aren’t familiar with property websites in other countries.

Sold price data dating back to the 90′s and other specifics including pictures (in some cases) are available on U.K. property websites Rightmove, Zoopla etc…

Our governments offering is a joke in comparison.

My friend this is a database, not just a website…where you u suppose those websites get their independent information…off a independent database-which is wat this is!

Here Mick
Give it a try.
Click on
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/

Click the house price tab on the top left hand side which will bring you to
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices.html

Key in your desired location’s postcode or address and you’re away.

It’s strange that Daft.ie or MyHome.ie haven’t added a similar search tool on their websites,
or maybe they are afraid of upsetting their estate agent buddies or other vested interests.

Oh god…keep digging…where is the information from these sites coming from? an independent source!!! we did not have one prior to this so Irish sites could not go down this route…now we have an independent source that daft etc can now use!!! Where is ur argument going?

Mick did you just say that

”Property websites my friend show asking prices…these are the “sold” prices…this is the whole point of it..read it up…educate yourself lad” ????

Oh sorry it must have been my ”negativity” that made me think that???

Be it database or website Mick.
This is a long overdue, expensive, amateur piece of non transparent inaccurate rubbish compared to its equivalents in other countries.
I wonder did our government allow the banks to engineer it just as they did with the farcical insolvency legislation?

Yeah right Mick I’d say the Indo owned myhome.ie were lobbying hard for this database.
”Back to the good old days of when the property supplement was thicker than the paper”
Imagine that thicker than the Indo itself.

Do you know how much the other databases cost my friend? You don’t plus you don’t know how much this one cost…where are you getting your figures??? Spoofing???

And back up your inaccurate and non transparent statement..hard facts, I want them??

As regards you quoting me…yes that’s wat property websites do in this country…I’m correct here. Secondly, if you want to look at the uk websites-yes they do as I acknowledged…but they get there info from a government sourced data…which u are against here but not over there…wat is ur point???

Firstly: Anything that the Irish government normally pays for costs us multiples of what it should cost one way or another,
would you disagree?

Secondly: The hard facts are that our country is run by inept so called leaders,
would you say not?

Thirdly: What do you think I am against, and what makes you think that?

Not one FACT produced for ur statements my friend…I wanted facts/figures to back up ur statements…sadly you could not produce

Quick question after looking at that site I see “I have read and understand the clarifications given in the Information Note with respect to the data contained in the Register

To search the database click OK”

Why?

Not to worry Mick, I’m sure the department of finance, NAMA, the ESRI, our banks etc…. will produce some fine facts and figures to keep you happy (and positive).

Or better still Mike you can go and talk facts and figures to the guys who audited Anglo in 2008,
if Michael Noonan ever finds them.
(Hey, they could be busy advising the government on their new property price register as we speak)
(Nothing surprises me when it comes to the Irish Government)

http://www.thejournal.ie/anglo-irish-bank-auditors-2008-614089-Sep2012/

Still no facts and figures…u are a spoofer!

Here’s some for you Mick.
http://www.thejournal.ie/aib-bondholder-payment-617526-Oct2012/

That is the facts and figures I requested from you to back up your claim that the house price system is inaccurate and non transparent is it??? I give up…

Ahh Mick.
Don’t be a quitter.

As I have clearly stated above.
I have used the database/property website or whatever you would like to call it today,
and on several occasions it has given no more than the name of the town where the property is situated as details to identify the property.
What use is that?

As for the cost of this half assed property database/property website to the Irish taxpayer, well it is just extortionate like everything else we are charged for by our inept government.
As for the delivery of this ”fine” achievement of technology, well its just 10-15 years behind schedule, like everything else our inept government deliver to us.

What are you on about? If you even bothered to read until the third paragraph you would know that it lists houses purchased since January 1st 2010. The high period ended well before that time.

And what if its used for the property tax? Better for you to be charged for a €200k purchase rather than the €300k “average” an “expert” may place on houses in your area.

They don’t read lad…they just want something to attack on a slow news day no matter how silly the comments make them look…

I cant see what you paid for the house being used for a property tax. Some people could have paid 200,000 and another person paid 150,000 for the same type property. An opportunity was lost by not listing the sq footage. Going forward this is what will be used to gauge a property tax. Today will be spent snooping on the neighbours and being pissed off that you paid more than your neighbour. It may even see more people seeking writedowns from their bank.

Phil, the prices on the site are for properties sold since January 2010 up to August/September 2012. I think this information is going to be very useful when it comes to purchasing a property in a specific area. Up to now we have only had access to guide prices or average prices for the country as a whole. Now we have access to the final price that the property sold for, the “real” price. This is good news for the buyer and I hope that this information will save me money when my wife and I buy our home.