The property page: Buyer help

Everything on a single property: details, location data, open homes, sharing, the agent, and reporting a problem.

Every property on OurHouse has its own page. It brings together the listing details with everything OurHouse can find out about the location, so you don't need ten tabs open to get the full picture.

Top of the page

Breadcrumbs: Properties → region → city → suburb. Click the region or city to browse by place.
Save to a watchlist: Right under the address, so you can save a property without scrolling. See Saving to a watchlist.
Photos and price: The best price OurHouse has, labelled so you know what it is: Asking price, then Market estimate, Homes estimate or Capital value if there's no asking price. If the asking price has changed, the previous one is shown beside it, greyed out and struck through, on the property page, in property cards and in your watchlist.

Property details

Core facts: bedrooms, bathrooms, garage, floor area, land area and the decade it was built, where OurHouse has them. On a phone they're a list; on a wider screen, a row of tiles.
Pricing and valuations: asking price, market estimate, Homes estimate and capital value side by side.
Location and listing context: property type, suburb, city, region, ownership type, sale method, and where the listing came from (imported, agent, self-listed or manually added).
Listing summary: the description.

Below the details, Property tags list descriptive tags such as property type and features. These are also what the tag filters in search use.

Open homes

Upcoming open homes, with the day, time and who's hosting. Choose Add to calendar to subscribe. the open home then appears on your dashboard and in My Calendar, and in your own calendar app if you've synced it.

Location and neighbourhood

Location map: Where the property is.
Points of interest: Nearby places grouped by category (schools, shops, parks, health and so on) with distances. Choose Edit categories to show only the categories you care about. This is your property display setting.
School zones: The school zones the property is in, with the type of school and distance.
Winter sun: How many hours of direct sun the spot gets on the shortest day (21 June), out of the day's daylight, and the times sun first and last reaches it. It takes the hills around the property into account, using LINZ terrain data, and says how many hours they block. It also shows which way the land faces and how steep it is (in New Zealand the sun is to the north, so north-facing land gets more of it), and the hours of sun on the longest day for comparison. The chart shows the sun's path on both days against the skyline, looking north; hover over a path for the time and the sun's height, or choose Show as a table. Buildings, trees and fences aren't included, so the house itself may get less sun. For a new listing it takes a minute or two to work out.
Climate: What a typical year is like in the area, from the last ten years of daily weather: rain a year and on how many days, the warmest and coldest months, a chart of the average high and low for each month, and a chart of rain by month. A dashed line on the rain chart shows the NZ average for each month: the average of 16 main towns and cities from Whangārei to Invercargill, from the same weather data. Hover over a point or bar for the figure, or choose Show as a table, which also has the NZ average, rain days and each month's average daily peak wind speed. The figures cover the area around the property, about 10 km across, so a hilltop or valley can be a few degrees different. For an area nobody has looked at yet, it takes a minute or two to fetch. On a wide screen, winter sun, climate and solar power sit two to a row, each half width; one with nothing beside it fills its row. Choose the expand icon at the top right of one to widen it to most of the row; the one beside it shrinks to a narrow strip on its side showing just its name. Choose the icon again to put them back, or the narrow one's icon to swap.
Solar power: Roughly how much power a 5 kW solar system on a north-facing roof would make here in a year, in kWh, and about what that's worth, assuming you use half of it at home and sell the rest back. A chart shows each month's output, and it says how much the hills around the property cut it by. It's worked out from ten years of measured sunlight for the area and the sun's path past the hills. Buildings, trees and the roof's own direction and shape aren't included, so it's a starting point, not a quote. Choose How it's worked out for the details.
Public transport: Nearby stops and the routes that serve them, from official regional timetable data, and an OurHouse Transit Score out of 100, worked out by us from the stops and routes within 1 km: closer stops count more, and trains, trams and ferries count more than buses. It doesn't look at how often services run. Choose How it's worked out under the score for the details. Open a route to see its stops. The three nearest stops show first; Show more stops lists the rest.
Walk Score: How easy it is to get to everyday places on foot, out of 100, from Walk Score, with what the score means (from Car-Dependent to Walker's Paradise). Walk Score gives full points for places within about a 5-minute walk and none beyond 30 minutes, adjusted for how walkable the streets are. Choose How it's worked out under the score for the details and what each range means.
Weather: Current temperature, wind and rain, a short forecast, and averages over the past 12 months.
Homes like this, recently sold: Similar nearby properties that have sold recently. A useful check on the asking price.
Market stats: The suburb's market stats.

Crime statistics and natural hazard exposure (such as tsunami risk) are shown on the property's page in your watchlist when there's data for the area.

Saving to a watchlist

The Save to a watchlist panel sits under the property's address. Pick a watchlist and press Save. Once saved, it says Saved to with a link to each watchlist the property is on; pick another and press Add to another to save it there too. If it's already on all of your watchlists, there's a Create another watchlist link, and if you have none yet, Create a watchlist.

Affordability

If you've set up your affordability profile, this tells you whether you can likely afford the property, and your headroom or shortfall against your estimated buying power.

Contacting the agent or seller

The Real Estate Agent panel shows the listing agent and their agency, with a button that opens an email already addressed to them about this property. Phone numbers and emails are revealed when you ask, to keep them from spam bots. For owner-listed homes, the For Sale by Owner panel does the same for the seller.

Share this listing gives you a link anyone can open without an account. It shows the photo, price, key details and description only. Nothing from your watchlists. Copy the link, or send it by email, WhatsApp or Facebook.

Property stats

How many times the page has been viewed, and how many watchlists the property is on.

Claiming a property

A property that nobody manages can be claimed. Private listings can't be claimed, and neither can a listing that an agent or an owner already manages.

Owners choose Send claim for review and upload a document that shows your name and this address, such as a recent rates notice or a certificate of title. It can be a PDF, JPG or PNG up to 10 MB. You need a verified email address to make a claim. Only our team sees the document, and we delete it 30 days after the claim is decided. Once an admin approves the claim, the property moves into My Listings, where you see its insights, including watchers and open-home check-ins, and you can edit it. While the claim is being checked, the page says so. You can't claim a listing that an agency or another person added.
Licensed agents choose Claim this listing to become its listing agent. Agent claims take effect straight away, and like owner claims they need a verified email address. You can then edit it, see its insights and add open homes.

Properties that an admin has approved may show ✔ Verified Steward.

Reporting a problem with a listing

If something's wrong with a listing, choose Report this listing under Something wrong with this listing? at the bottom of the side panel (below the main details on a phone). You need to be signed in. Tick everything that's wrong. You can choose more than one:

The listing: the price, rooms or other details are wrong; the address or map location is wrong; it's sold or no longer for sale; or it's a duplicate.
Photos: they're poor quality, missing or broken, or they're of another property or misleading.
Area research: something OurHouse shows about the area is wrong, such as school zones, transit, winter sun, climate or nearby places.
Something else: it looks like a scam, it has offensive or inappropriate content, or anything else.

Then tell us more in at least 10 characters (what's wrong, and how you know) and choose Send report. If you leave out a reason or the description is too short, the form says what's missing under the field and doesn't send.

An OurHouse admin checks every report and fixes the listing if needed. Reports aren't shown on the listing, and the agent or seller isn't told who sent one. If you report the same listing again before an admin has looked at it, your new reasons and description replace the old ones.

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