Comments on: What property recession? Nestoria launches WhereCanILive mashup

By: Where can you live? at Nestoria Blog

Where can you live? at Nestoria Blog — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:57:27 +0000

[...] There’s been some initial coverage of the service over on Property Portal Watch, Renthusiast, and TechCrunch. [...]

By: Mike Butcher

Mike Butcher — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:12:42 +0000

Chris – go and talk to the http://walkit.com/ guys while you’re at it

By: stevenfeldman

stevenfeldman — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:04:24 +0000

Neat implementation by Chris and co but I am not sure that it adds very much to the process of home hunting. Adding other transport modes including walking will make a big difference.

Good on Nestoria for backing this kind of innovative work

By: Christopher Osborne

Christopher Osborne — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:02:27 +0000

Thanks for the feedback Mike. I’m already working on overland train times so watch this space.

Cheers
Chris

By: Marcus Greenwood

Marcus Greenwood — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:07:10 +0000

Haha, well estate agents would say that wouldn’t they! House prices and rents in London are definitely coming down in my experience – and about time too!

Congrats to Nestoria on the AOL partnership. The “Where I Can Live” mashup also looks pretty sweet

Marcus

By: Fabio

Fabio — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:38:30 +0000

Nice tool. However if you’re familiar enough with London you probably already know where you’d like to live taking where you work / hang out in consideration. However, it could be a clever tool to discover areas not previously considered and to have a quick look on price trends. Definitely worth a play!

As an aside Mike, you start off saying “the property market has slumped” – has it really? Both for sale and to rent? Because rent prices aren’t going down apparently (also, I spoke to estate agents who said that rent prices will rise again in the next months), so I was curious to get this right.

Cheers

By: Ed

Ed — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:35:00 +0000

Hi Mike,

Ed from Nestoria here. Many thanks for the positive coverage. We welcome all feedback on where-can-i-live, I look forward to seeing what TechCrunch readers have to say.

A few minor points. First of all we want to thank the great team behind mySociety for their work on time travel map prototypes last year that was our inspiration. We take your point about not having bus routes and overground. We have to start somewhere and rest assured v2 is coming. Launch early and launch often as they say.

Finally, we don’t see Zoopla as competition in the slightest. We offer a very different (and much more simplistic) service and do our best to find ways to work together with (rather than against) everyone in the industry. Congrats to them for their recent funding.

Thanks again.