Show HN: Our new property search website for London - Locatable

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Very cool!

One issue - when I enter a place and then a property, I click search and all is good. I then click Property again, which pops up, but the search results cover the "cancel/search" buttons on the Property page. Means I have to reload the site and start over. A button to close the search results, or closing them automatically on smaller screens could be a good thing (I'm on a 1366 x 768 resolution tablet). Unless such a function is there and it doesn't work on IE10.

Some functional enhancements would be great -

- In the Property search box it'd be awesome if I could filter by type (house/flat/etc).

- It'd also be nice to see a price heat map of not just the area covered by a place, but of a wider area around that place. A bigger house for the same money is an incentive for a longer commute.

Otherwise, awesome!

It told me that the City and some parts of London south of the river were 20 minutes away from Highgate. While I have managed to drive from Highgate to Moorgate in seven minutes, it relied on every traffic light along the way being green, it being 7am on a public holiday and a loose regard to the posted speed limit. Any other time forty minutes would be more accurate.

Were you to take the existing road times and triple them, you'd like get a more realistic circle IMO.

We're solving this problem at OpenRent [1], for rentals at least. All of our properties, if stated as live, are available to rent now. We can do this because we talk directly to landlords.

[1] Take a look: http://www.openrent.co.uk

Hey guys, OpenRent [1] founder here.

Firstly, site looks great and seems to function well. We built a similar commute time search last year, our interface could definitely do with some work - but it's a feature I think is awesome and people use.

However, in my opinion, the real problem with property searching of the past 5 years has been data. The data quality is poor as letting agents aren't incentivised to keep it honest, and keep it current. After all, they want tenant leads of any sort.

And that's just the search side. When you start looking into how else you can save money and improve the system for tenants and landlords you'll realise you're only scratching the surface.

Hence, whilst it's an awesome tool, I think the whole sector needs to be improved first. Maybe you can limit your search to OpenRent listings, and then you'll be keeping tenants happy! ;-)

But seriously, good luck with it - and if you wanted to chat, you can catch me anytime via the email in my profile.

[1] - http://www.openrent.co.uk