The Glass is Half Full

One of the techie perks of working here at Nestoria is that we have a large database of property listings to play with. We've been taking a look at some of the descriptions estate agents send with their properties. It turns out that agents are great at seeing the glass half full in life. We can't find a single bad property!

We've created this tag cloud to show the relative frequency of various 'descriptive' adjectives:

 

attractive  beautiful  beautifully  benefits  boasts  convenient  conveniently  delighted  delightful  excellent  fantastic  generous  lovely  luxury  massive  modern  popular  recommended  spacious  stunning

 

So what can we observe:

  • Properties are more than twice as likely to be "spacious" as they are to be "massive".
  • There are more "excellent" properties then there are "stunning" properties
  • Fewer properties "boast" features than "benefit" from features

As someone who spent the last year in (a properti in) W14 overpaying for a bedroom where I could touch all four walls, it's a bit of a shock that there are so many "spacious" properties available. But, as we know, numbers never lie ;-)

 

This type of Natural Language Processing (trying to extract meaning from the sometimes cryptic property descriptions we get) is just one of many things we've been working on to improve relevancy for you, the property seeker. I know, I know, I'm behind schedule to provide an update on recent improvements to our relevancy algorithm – Nestoria Rank – it will happen soon.

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