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stubby43
stubby43 aka Phil is a 25.42 year old boy, has been a member since December 22, 2006, has scored 3,809 submissions, giving an average score of 2.65, helping 191 designs get printed.
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creeped out brits beware
I'm a little bit creeped out, I was on the internet doing research for my essay and came across an article by the telegraph that listed the 101 most useful websites and one of the websites it listed was zoopla this website lists the recent sales of houses then attempts to work out the value of the houses around it. Our house is on that website and states how the price we bought it for. I'm kind of creeped out by it because we've never consented for that information to be online.


welshalex
welshalex on May 13 '08 at 7:43am
There are quite a few websites like that. I think theyre really handy. I'm not sure what you think anyone is going to do with that info or why it would creep you out?
fatheed
   fatheed on May 13 '08 at 7:44am
All that stuff is on the title deed and essentially public domain information. Not really cool having it online though. I blame Labour.
BaronVonMonkey
   BaronVonMonkey on May 13 '08 at 7:49am
I'd say it was pretty useful for anyone buying a house- why should you mind your house price being online?
squatterjohn
squatterjohn on May 13 '08 at 7:55am
That sort of stuff is reported in the papers here. I think it's public information. But it's still creepy.
telaine
telaine on May 13 '08 at 9:27am
ditto to the above. We used our county's online land records to find out how much the other houses in our new neighborhood are. It really does help for a buying a house. It even has satellite maps but it doesn't zoom in too far so not too creeepy.
wullagaru
   wullagaru on May 13 '08 at 9:30am
yeah if anything i find it to be a useful tool
deboraborialis
deboraborialis on May 13 '08 at 12:56pm
I use a website called "up my street" to find out what my neighbours houses sell for. It's great for the nosey.
deboraborialis
deboraborialis on May 13 '08 at 1:04pm
I just checked out my flat, and it estimated £81k. It's actually worth around £120k. It Only really takes into account inflation, and not the fact that there is a property boom in that area.
stubby43
stubby43 on May 13 '08 at 2:59pm
I can see how its useful, I'm just not that comfortable with everyone knowing how much/or how little I or in this case my parents paid for our house.
deboraborialis
deboraborialis on May 14 '08 at 6:13am
I'm only nosey to see how much houses are going for. If I saw someome had paid buttons for their house ans it was now worth loads, I's think "good on you". If they paid over the odd I'd think "what a chump".



I don't think anyone one but you would actually pay attention to which house is which. Most people are just looking in a general area.
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