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A few weeks ago I came across a plugin for Mozilla Firefox called Property Bee. For those of you who haven’t heard of it I will try and explain what it is and how it works.

Property Bee is a small plugin which works in the Firefox internet browser to track house prices (a huge talking point in the UK at the moment). Using the Rightmove website it keeps track of any changes that an Estate agents makes to a listing. For example if an estate agent changes a price and you view the listing again, it will record that listing and store it in a database. Sounds pretty simple doesn’t it?

Well, the clever part comes from the title of the plugin – ‘Bee’. When you install the plugin and then register you come a ‘Bee’. When working with other Bees you send your findings on the website to a server which holds all the changes to the listing on Rightmove. When you next do a search on Rightmove for an area or a property it will download all the changes in between meaning you get an in depth record of price changes!

Although I have only been using it a few weeks, because I am working as a ‘Bee’ I have been collecting other peoples data. Therefore some of the properties I have been looking at on Rightmove show huge drops in price! The average price drop around here (Oxfordshire & Berkshire area) seems to be between 10-20%!

A lot of the properties have been on the market for 6+ months (yes Property Bee tells you how long it’s been on the market too)! It’s all quite exciting really as I am looking to buy somewhere in the near future but at the moment I am saving so much money by holding back as the prices just keep dropping. Property Bee even tracks rental prices and they have been dropping in the area too.

I think we are in for an interesting 12 months!

I haven’t wrote any updates for a while so I thought I would quickly give you readers something to have a gander on.

I currently have no plans for this site, I did have but they have fallen apart thanks to the owner of Jamesmunday.com renewing the domain name on Monday
I was hoping they would let it drop so I could pick it up and maybe do something with the site but instead they have decided to renew it for another year and hold it to ransom (they want offers above $800 for it)! Why someone would do this when I could be using it is a bit stupid really!

Anyway, in other news the Kris Moyse website has taken off nicely thanks to Kris’ increasing popularity! Kris has also just released an album which is available on iTunes, Napster, Amazon MP3 etc so check that out. He is also auctioning a ‘One of a Kind’ album which he is going to sign and it is currently doing very well on eBay. A percentage of the money raised is going to his selected charity (the NSPCC). For those of you who don’t know who Kris Moyse is, please visit the website – www.krismoyse.com

So thats about it really for the time being! I don’t really have any other projects in the pipeline. I still need to get around to putting my New Zealand photos on the site but I shall do that soon.

Take care all