Musings of A Brighton Property Porn aficionado

Don’t you just love finding out how much your friend at Bridge paid for their spangly new flat or how much your downsizing City friends achieved for their fabulous Sussex rectory.  Or how much your Doctor paid for his new house or whether that irritating bloke at work really did get a fantastic deal on his post-divorce seaside penthouse?

Well it’s not just us – it’s official according to a survey for propertylive.co.uk.  Apparently 70% of us browse house prices although we’re not interested in moving and one in 10 do so to find out what friends houses are worth.  One in five of us want to check our what our colleagues homes are worth. 

No surprise to discover that uber-competitive Londoners are the worst with 16% admitting to logging in to determine the value of someone else’s homes compared to 7% in laid-back Brighton.  The 25-34 age group are by far the nosiest, with 17% checking the house prices of their friends and neighbours and one in eight looking at the house prices of their colleagues homes.  80% of this age group look at property prices regularly, although they have no interest in buying or renting a new home.  And we thought we were bad.  At least we Property Finders get paid for it!!

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Tags: Brighton Property Finders, house price anoraks, House Prices, housing envy, property porn