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Add average house price data to your website
What is a Nestoria house price widget?
Our widget is a simple way for you to display average asking price data for an area on your website or blog. You can choose from different layouts:
Here are some example screenshots:
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How do I get started?
It's easy (we promise). Do a search on Nestoria and find the
exact listings you want to show on your website (limit your search by type
or property and/or maximum price and/or minimum number of bedrooms).
On the bottom of the search results page is a 'add to your website or blog' section. Click on the appropriate link and you'll be taken to a page with the exact code to embed in your site.
How is the data calculated?
We use our database of over 800,000 homes to buy and rent across
the UK.
For each area we take all the properties in that area, calculate
the
geometric mean (a complicated but more accurate average), we then remove all properties beyond two
median absolute deviations from the geometric mean, and calaculate a new geometric mean. We do this to remove any odd outliers that might skew the data.
If you are interested, via our API we return the exact number of datapoints
used in making the calculations.
How reliable is this data?
Our database has over 800,000 properties across
the UK.
We spend a lot of time and effort to weed out bad listings like spam, properties that are already sold, etc. But we're not perfect. So you should see these numbers as snapshots of average asking price at some point in time, not cold hard facts.
There are a few points to note though. Specifically, our database has asking prices, not sold prices. Also, in some areas, especially sparsely populated areas, there may be very few houses from which we're calculating the averages.
Why should I put this on my website?
The main reason is that it is interesting content that provides a
benefit to your users. For example if your website is about a certain
area, it might be interesting for your readers to see information about
local property prices.
Of course you might also do it because you're a hard core Nestoria fan.
If that's the case, thanks, and we love you too.
Can I see a live example?
How does it work?
It's a bit of javascript that updates automatically when users come to your site. Installing it on your website or blog is as easy as cut and paste.
How can I customise the callback name?
By specifying the "callback" parameter in your request you can have the generated HTML passed to your own JavaScript function. By default the HTML is passed to document.write, which means if you don't know what this is you can safely ignore it and the output HTML will be written to wherever you add our code in your page.
How much does it cost?
Nothing. Nestoria widgets are free.
It's not exactly what I want. Are there other formats?
We will be launching alternate formats in the coming weeks. Please
subscribe to our blog to stay up to date.
Does Nestoria offer any other tools for webmasters?
I have some more questions.
This is all very nice, but I want more. Is there a way for me to access the Nestoria data directly?