thanks for taking the time to comment, and sorry you’re not finding what you want.

You ask a good question about adding a comprehensive keyword search. We study our logs closely, every day examining the queries that come in and especially what percentage of searches we’re unable to find results for.

The reality is that almost no one searches the way you’re describing. As a result, given our limited resources, it hasn’t been a priority for us. If we see that this is the way people want to search we’ll of course invest the time to further develop keyword searching.

Sadly though, that doesn’t help you find what you’re looking for, which is no doubt frustrating. One frustration we grapple with is that we’re not going to please all the people all the time. That’s exactly why we do offer our API to allow others to experiment with different interfaces.

Thanks again for the feedback, please keep it coming.

best,
Ed

Sorry to hear that your property search on Nestoria was unsuccessful.

Can you contact us via our feedback form (linked in the article) so we can learn more about your ideas on keyword search? We’d also like to know in which area of the UK you searched and how you used the map or other navigation to select a broader area (if the location wasn’t a top priority).

How did you search for ’swimming pool’? Via the search box?

Making the website easy and listing 100 keyword options is a challenge, we chose not to show all (until now, no reason not to change it!) Searches for e.g. ‘gym’, ’sauna’, ‘cottage’ and ’swimming pool’ are currently only possible via our API.

thx
marc tobias

Unfortunately for my property searches you miss by a mile on all counts, because you never return any results. I’m not looking for a property in a particular town, but the key for me is the property features. So I try searching for any of the following – garden, garage, listed, barn, swimming pool. Nothing!

Before trying to restrict the properties that are shown which you talk about here, any chance that you could make a simple keyword search for properties work – in this modern world, as work becomes more flexible, property searching is less about where a property is, but more about what features the property provides.