Nestoria Blog

Greetings Nestorlinians,

we’ve just pushed live an upgrade to our API that now allows you to not only request information about specific properties, but also to request ‘meta’ information about an area like average prices. The data comes from the properties in the Nestoria databases (in the UK we have about 450,000 properties, in Spain we have over 700,000 properties)

Here’s an example XML query for ‘average property prices in Chelsea‘. You can see the average cost over the last month of buying a one bed flat is £576,995. Yikes!

For now we only show data from the last month, but over time the data available will grow making time trends possible.

Many people have asked for this information over the last year, and we’re happy to finally be able to offer it. We look forward to seeing what you come up with. As usual we’d love to hear any feedback you have. As with all new features there will no doubt be some fine tuning necessary.

One obvious question - when will you see property meta data like average house prices for an area on Nestoria search results page? Soon, very soon.

A final note, as mentioned last week this upgrade does mean older versions of the API will no longer be supported. Please upgrade, it should be very painless.

OK, enough blog reading, go forth and bask in the glory that is metadata. The detailed technical API specs are here. Well, actually if you do want some more blog reading, take a look at some early covrage over at TechCrunch and the Rat and Mouse.