Nestoria Blog

Greetings fellow Nestorites!

We know that one of the biggest complaints about searching for property on the internet is that the dream house you find is then gone when you contact the estate agent. This issue, we refer to it as freshness is a very difficult challenge. Without going into too much detail, the problem is not so much technical as it is simply refective of the dynamics of the industry.

Nevertheless, we are doing our part to solve it. We clearly label all of our listings with an indication of how old they are and a few months ago we began allowing users to sort listings by age. We know this doesn’t solve the actual problem, but we hope it’s a start.

Today we’ve extended the information we have about the listings age to our API. Each listing requested via the API now returns a field updated_in_days which is a number representing how many days since the listing last had a significant update like a change in price. The number is rounded to the nearest 12 hours (ie 0.5 would mean the listing is less than half a day old).

As ever, the full technical details can be found on our property search API help pages. Please contact us with any questions you have regarding the API (or anything else for that matter)

Enjoy!