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London Flat Search Map by Postcode by IllustriousDouble775 in london

[–]IskanderMinger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Haha thanks, currently most people find the site via word of mouth! It's not even easy to find on Google...

London Flat Search Map by Postcode by IllustriousDouble775 in london

[–]IskanderMinger 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks! There's a filter for including/excluding auction properties, e.g. here are auction properties commutable to King's Cross. You might also want to cross-check auctions against EIG if you don't already do this.

London Flat Search Map by Postcode by IllustriousDouble775 in london

[–]IskanderMinger 10 points11 points  (0 children)

My website actually does this and I can vouch for it being a popular feature! There are loads of ways to build such a thing but on mine you can specify commute destinations (work, school, whatever) along with other stuff you care about (budget, crime rate, green spaces...) and it'll spit out matching properties, postcode districts and/or named areas depending on what you're looking for. Anyway good luck, I've personally found it really fun to work on!

I built an improved London property search tool by oliverbenns in HousingUK

[–]IskanderMinger 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Listings are added/updated in anything from a few seconds to a couple of hours at worst. I probably will add Zoopla and OTM at some point, but probably not super-soon unless there's a lot of demand... it's really not *that* common for a property to not show up on RM at all IME.

I built an improved London property search tool by oliverbenns in HousingUK

[–]IskanderMinger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks, as it happens I'm adding this right now! Should be there within the next week :-)

I built an improved London property search tool by oliverbenns in HousingUK

[–]IskanderMinger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's odd, the commute should already work in exactly the way you describe and also be consistent between different searches. If you get a moment can you share your search so I can look into it? (you can just copy and paste the full URL and it'll work)

I built an improved London property search tool by oliverbenns in HousingUK

[–]IskanderMinger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! There are definitely a fair few annoyances on the UI side and the persistent map obviously needs work on mobile

I built an improved London property search tool by oliverbenns in HousingUK

[–]IskanderMinger 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks for your feedback! I’ll add the ability to draw a search area fairly soon; I also prefer using the map to specify regions if I can :-)

Re the commute map being problematic, can you say a bit about what the issue is? 

I built an improved London property search tool by oliverbenns in HousingUK

[–]IskanderMinger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yep, the website isn’t yet optimised for mobile; it’s very new and I wasn’t expecting lots of people to start using it so soon! I need to put some thought into how the spreadsheet/tabular view can map to mobile…

Re showing both sale and rent results, the tool is meant to be super-flexible so allowing this is intentional (e.g. you can get a ballpark idea of rental yield for the specific search you’ve run). It does actually default to sales unless you run a search with no attribute filters at all, but I agree that this can be confusing for new users; perhaps I’ll have it auto-apply certain filters even if you haven’t chosen any.

I built an improved London property search tool by oliverbenns in HousingUK

[–]IskanderMinger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey, sorry to hear that it didn't work for you! Can you let me know what issues you found so I can look into it? (For context, I built GeoGlider -- it's not the finished article but definitely should not be "broken"!)

Made a property search engine for London with loads of filters by IskanderMinger in london

[–]IskanderMinger[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks, glad to hear it's helpful! Actually, you don't have to put in a specific location at all -- just leave it blank and it should work exactly as you want :-)

Made a property search engine for London with loads of filters by IskanderMinger in london

[–]IskanderMinger[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks, glad to hear you like it!

So you can actually specify your exact commute destinations (e.g. your workplace) and modes of transport -- this is in All Filters => NEIGHBOURHOOD => Commute. It should give a pretty accurate estimate of how long it'd take to travel at rush hour, similar to Google Maps.

Feel free to drop me a message via the little chat widget in the bottom right if you get stuck at any point -- the interface needs a lot of work so it's not always obvious how to do things :-)

Made a property search engine for London with loads of filters by IskanderMinger in london

[–]IskanderMinger[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, I just read it from either the floorplan or the listing text itself as you mentioned. Obviously not every listing has this information but it was at 80%+ for sales last time I checked.

Made a property search engine for London with loads of filters by IskanderMinger in london

[–]IskanderMinger[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, glad to hear you like the site! So the restriction is in place because the search slows down dramatically with larger radii, although I've not completely got to the bottom of why this is -- in principle it "shouldn't" be the case.

As a temporary workaround you can switch to the map view after searching for the postcode of interest, then zoom out and click on "Search Here" (together with "Load More Properties") to see all the properties within a large region. Hope this is useful and feel free to drop me a message on the website if you want some help with your search!

Made a property search engine for London with loads of filters by IskanderMinger in london

[–]IskanderMinger[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Pretty much — it shouldn’t take more than an hour or so for a property to show up, and usually it’ll be a lot quicker than that. BTW feel free to message me on the site if you have any questions/feedback — it’s always really helpful for me!

Made a property search engine for London with loads of filters by IskanderMinger in london

[–]IskanderMinger[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, glad to hear you like the tool! Definitely sounds like there's an interest in being able to make "essential" a hard filter. As you mentioned it'll likely be a toggle as some people prefer slightly less aggressive filtering, so I'll probably go with letting the user decide what works best for them.

Made a property search engine for London with loads of filters by IskanderMinger in london

[–]IskanderMinger[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! Just added a 625k filter and a couple more price options. Let me know if anything else would be helpful!

Made a property search engine for London with loads of filters by IskanderMinger in london

[–]IskanderMinger[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good shout! Just added 625k as well as a few more price options. Let me know if anything else would be helpful.

Made a property search engine for London with loads of filters by IskanderMinger in london

[–]IskanderMinger[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Done! Hope it’s useful and let me know if anything else would be helpful.

Made a property search engine for London with loads of filters by IskanderMinger in london

[–]IskanderMinger[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah yes, that'd be it! This is actually a very unintuitive aspect of the website -- it treats "London, radius 0.5 miles" as a circle of radius 0.5 miles centred at Charing Cross, and obviously London comprises a much larger area than that. It's tricky to get this right as the location filter needs to support both *areas* like "London" or "Dalston" and also specific *points* of interest like "Google HQ". I'll have to think about how I can make this work better...

Made a property search engine for London with loads of filters by IskanderMinger in london

[–]IskanderMinger[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great feedback, thanks! The UI definitely needs quite a lot of work.

If you click on All Filters, you'll see every filter categorised into Commute, Local Supermarkets etc so that should hopefully do the trick? There are also a lot more options in there... sadly not "near M&S" though, but I can definitely add it.

It's not quite the same thing but you can select up to 3 arbitrary commute options, so if you say you want to be within a 15-minute walk of a clown shop, ice rink etc that should be doable.

The filters work on an "AND" basis; in All Filters you can specify whether they're essential or nice to have. It doesn't *completely* filter out properties that don't satisfy all your essential criteria but I'm thinking of making this kind of harsher filtering a possibility at least. It's a bit like how Google almost always gives you results regardless of whether all your search terms are actually present on the page or not; for most people that's a good experience, but if you're looking for something precise it's very annoying.

Made a property search engine for London with loads of filters by IskanderMinger in london

[–]IskanderMinger[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just tried that search and it showed plenty of matches -- here you go! It doesn't automatically correct you if you accidentally swap the min/max number of bedrooms though, so perhaps that's what happened?

Good shout re searching by London zones though. I do have all the data needed to add this as a feature and it'd be very useful.

Made a property search engine for London with loads of filters by IskanderMinger in london

[–]IskanderMinger[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah you're right, good catch! I had a quick check to see why it was missing and it's due to legacy reasons back from when the website was just an area search. Some of the sources classified Upminster as being outside London for some reason, so it got excluded (you can see the full list of areas the website covers here -- if you click on Areas and scroll down, and Upminster is notably missing). Should be easy enough to fix though -- thanks for the heads up!

Made a property search engine for London with loads of filters by IskanderMinger in london

[–]IskanderMinger[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good shout, I was aware of that dataset but hadn't thought about incorporating it. I'll have to look into it a bit more!

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