Nestoria Blog

Greetings Nestoronians!

A few updates about the Nestoria API. Specifically, the average house price data we launched a few months ago has now been augmented in two ways. First of all, we now return not just monthly price averages, but also quarterly price averages. Secondly we are now returning data for multiple months. This means it would now be easy to make cool graphs showing price trends over time, using the new Google Charts API or YUI Charts library (or, obviously, some other visualization technology of your choice).

We’ve seen some interesting experiments with the average house price data, the most notable of which is Precio de vivienda by Jesús Barrio in Spain. His tool uses our API to allow anyone to compare house prices in any two cities in Spain and displays them via a Google Chart. A very nice and useful site well worth checking out, and one we’d love to see someone emulate for the UK. Here’s a screenshot:

Unfortunately right now we’re only offering the historic data for the UK, but rest assured our ace team of data crunchers are hard at work compiling this data for Spain as well and it will soon be available.

A few other related announcements:

By popular demand we now support rental price widgets. See an example showing the average prices for rentals in Islington. Learn all about our average house price widgets for your blog or website.

Also, we’re aware that the external link to the PHP library is, unfortunately, not working. I’ve been informed that it should be back online shortly. Apologies for the outage.

As always, enjoy the API and please keep the feedback coming.