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Re: Show HN: We made a photo search engine for homes for sale

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Post by 101008 »

qingcharles wrote: post #8
101008 wrote: post #5

Not from the UK so sorry if this is off-topic, but what are those "dettached" hosues for around 60k? Do they have their own "land"? or you are buying that space "inside" another house? (so in the end you are at the actual owner's mercy?)

Most houses in the UK are "attached" to another property, either row houses or two houses in one. Detached is just what you would call a regular house in the USA -- it's not touching another building and sits on its own land.

Ohhh much simpler than I thought. Are they usually better than attached? (You don't hear your neighbors, for example?)

Re: Show HN: We made a photo search engine for homes for sale

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Post by rubyn00bie »

neuralkoi wrote: post #7
kureikain wrote: post #6

We did this in 2013, got serve with a lot of lawsuit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeighborCity Be careful with the real estate industry

I'm curious, how do businesses like Zillow get around this? Do they have direct agreements with MLS?

They partner with Listhub and pay for the data feed, and/or get deals with individual MLSs and large brokerages. Hopefully, for folks in the UK it’s not as awful as it is in the states.

Re: Show HN: We made a photo search engine for homes for sale

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Post by Otternonsenz »

neuralkoi wrote: post #7
kureikain wrote: post #6

We did this in 2013, got serve with a lot of lawsuit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeighborCity Be careful with the real estate industry

I'm curious, how do businesses like Zillow get around this? Do they have direct agreements with MLS?

Zillow, OpenDoor, Redfin, and Realtor.com all pay for API access to the largest Multiple Listing Systems (except for Realtor because they are the ones that are selling the access).

They then use their own “special” algorithms to give their price estimate based on “relevant” factors by what you are describing.

Your real issue is that the agents putting these homes on the market have a financial stake in it selling, and own copyright to all the pictures and descriptions of their listings. So you have more liability if you are scraping their info.

Another issue is who is the target audience for this? Most serious homebuyers are going to use an agent or a trusted partner for a transaction, and are not excited about compounding layers of hurdles to purchase a home

I am a residential real estate appraiser in the US and real estate technologist, which is why I bring up these points.

Re: Show HN: We made a photo search engine for homes for sale

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Post by fckgw »

101008 wrote: post #11
qingcharles wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most houses in the UK are "attached" to another property, either row houses or two houses in one. Detached is just what you would call a regular house in the USA -- it's not touching another building and sits on its own land.

Ohhh much simpler than I thought. Are they usually better than attached? (You don't hear your neighbors, for example?)

Basically, yeah. It's your own little fiefdom so you can remodel the whole house how you want, you can tear up and rebuild the outside if you want, you can just not interact with anyone and become a hermit if you want. Your own singular space.

Re: Show HN: We made a photo search engine for homes for sale

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Post by squishy47 »

really cool idea. rightmove is awful for searching for houses. I basically can't filter by features at all. though their map search feature is cool cos i might not want to search in an entire county. though i get your probs mvp-ing. really slick though

also there are no houses for Cheshire on your site. replication steps: type cheshire in the search bar and click the suggestion (Cheshire, UK) = 0 results.

Re: Show HN: We made a photo search engine for homes for sale

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Post by smith7018 »

amelius wrote: post #16

Can someone please build something like this for clothes? Because Google refuses to build a search system where I can select a size, color and brand.

Encore is a new-ish used clothing indexer that might be what you're looking for. I also use Gem which doesn't use AI but indexes multiple vintage/used sites and will notify you when something pops up with your saved searches.

Re: Show HN: We made a photo search engine for homes for sale

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Post by itscoops »

squishy47 wrote: post #17

really cool idea. rightmove is awful for searching for houses. I basically can't filter by features at all. though their map search feature is cool cos i might not want to search in an entire county. though i get your probs mvp-ing. really slick though also there are no houses for Cheshire on your site. replication steps: type cheshire in the search bar and click the suggestion (Cheshire, UK) = 0 results.

Thanks for the kind comments. Just checked Cheshire and you're right, we're missing a polygon for it (as it's a ceremonial county).

Re: Show HN: We made a photo search engine for homes for sale

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Post by sky_rw »

kureikain wrote: post #6

We did this in 2013, got serve with a lot of lawsuit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeighborCity Be careful with the real estate industry

It seems like this site is more EU based. Does anybody here know if there is an MLS equivalent in this jurisdiction and/or if similar copyright holders over there are as litigious?
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