In the hunt for property but angry at how Real Estate Agents feel the need to suppress prices on some of their ads?

Robert Reith from Home Price History sent us through a nice little hack for finding out hidden prices from properties listed on both RealEstate.com.au and Real Estate View.

Turns out that both of these sites like to share their info with Google Base…not a bad idea in general, but not a good idea if you want to keep prices hidden.

Just go to either of these sites and when you find a property with hidden pricing information, pop over to Google Base, click on the ‘Housing’ link, then put in the address and Hey Presto! the property is displayed with the missing price.

Here’s an example of a place advertised without a price at 200 Cecil St South Melbourne

And here is the Google Base version WITH price

For people looking to collect information about property (and use services like Home Price History) the ability to bypass real estate agents will be a godsend.

Nice catch, Robert! Maybe use the Google Base API and build an automated service into the next release of Home Price History?

Now that would be sweet!