Welcome

Welcome to property-bee.com, a site dedicated to innovative property tools.

If you are a first time buyer, an existing home owner looking to move, searching for a property to rent, or are simply keeping an eye on the local property market then property-bee can help you.

Property-Bee Toolbar

When looking at your favourite property website, have you ever thought; "Has that house just come onto the market, or was it there last time I looked?" or "I'm not sure, but has the price of this flat been reduced?". Maybe you tried to keep your own notes on houses that you are interested in, only to realise that it takes a lot of effort and after a few days gave up.

Property-bee.com is the home of the new, exciting and innovative toolbar which adds new features to your favourite property sites like rightmove.co.uk, daft.ie, propertynews.com, espc.co.uk, gspc.co.uk and sspc.co.uk.

When you view a property, rather than manually making a note of the details yourself, the toolbar will do it for you. Later when you view the same property the toolbar will show you whether the property details or price have changed and display the changes right next to the property on the webpage you are looking at.

Below is an example of what you can expect to see as you browse with property-bee;

Screen capture of property-bee in action.

If you have a question or an idea about property-bee, please visit our forum.

Download

To start using the property-bee toolbar please go to the download page for the full instructions and screen shots on how to install it.

See our movie showing you how to install Firefox and Property-Bee.

The Property-bee toolbar is free to download and use.

However if you feel it is the best thing since sliced bread and would of happily paid for it, you can donate via paypal and help us with the running costs of the site.

News

8th December

Version 2.0.3.7 is available. It contains a couple of bug fixes, and a new feature in the sidebar. See the forum for the details.

4th December

Rightmove updated its site yesterday, and I know you all keen to start 'bee-ing' again! So here it is, version 2.0.3.5 complete with (I hope!) an updating sidebar.

3rd October

The property.com beta site went live on the 1st Oct. To cope with the redesign property-bee 2.0.3.3 has been released. See this thread for more information. Now thats out the way (and I hope propertynews don't change their site for awhile!) I can get back to working on 2.0.4.0 which will have the updating sidebar and deleting properties.

1st September

As propertynews.com changed their site design over the weekend, this morning I've released a new version (2.0.3.1) which addresses this. See this thread for more information.

30th July

Rightmove changed their website design slightly yesterday, and hence property-bee 2.0.3.0 has been released.

If you have not updated to 2.0.3.0, when you browse rightmove you will see the error;

Server reported the error 400

Please upgrade your property-bee toolbar to the latest version (2.0.3.0) as rightmove have changed their site design. Thanks.

22nd July

If you are running property-bee 2.0.0.1 or earlier (you can check by selecting Tools > Add-ons in firefox and looking at the number next to 'Property Bee') please upgrade to the latest version by clicking on this link for property-bee 2.0.2.0

If you have property-bee 2.0.0.2 or later installed, auto-updates are working again and you will be automatically updated to the latest version (2.0.2.0)

21st July

A minor update to property-bee which includes;

  • A workaround for 'Failed to insert sample because .... constraint failed' error when installing property-bee with Firefox 3.0.1.
  • Support for emailed links from rightmove (with the format rightmove.co.uk/property/id123456)
  • Better support for searching on gspc.co.uk

Please note you will need to manually update to property-bee 2.0.2.0 as we are still in the process of setting up the server to provide automatic updates of property-bee toolbar.

14th July

property-bee 2.0.1.0 is available. Thanks to riad who wrote and tested the code supports gspc.co.uk / espc.co.uk.

There are also a number of bug fixes and minor enhancements including;

  • The ability to install property bee without giving your email address (however you will not be able to share information with other users in this mode).
  • Support for Firefox 3.0.1 which is expected to be released in a couple of days.
  • A new sidebar column indicating the time the property has been in the market.

Please note you will need to manually update to 2.0.1.0 as we are still in the process of setting up the server to provide automatic updates of property-bee toolbar.

7th July

If you use propertynews.com, then please update to property-bee 2.0.0.2. propertynews.com has made a minor change to their site, and this update means property-bee will work with the new search results page (if you don't use propertynews.com you do not need to update as there is no new functionality in this release).

6th July

Now the server is fully up and running, property-bee 2.0.0.1 is available to download again.

If you have sent us an email in the past couple of weeks, we will not of received it so please resend the email (and cc to property-bee@hotmail.com so we can make sure we don't drop any emails).

If you have registered within the past couple of weeks and not received the confirmation email, don't worry I will be resending the emails this evening.

2nd July

property-bee has moved to a new dedicated server.

At the moment we are experiencing a number of technical issues which we are working on;

  • If you try and register with the forum you can't see the captcha to register with.
  • Our email may or may not be working! In the meantime I've set up property-bee@hotmail.com as a back up for any important messages... or use the PM system if you can.
  • When I download property-bee I don't see the sidebar or shared information. Whats going on! Whilst we fixed the email/forum problems, anyone downloading property bee will get version 1.0.4.3 which doesn't contain these features. But once everything is working like a treat I'll make 2.0 with the sidebar and sharing available again, and you can update to the latest version without loosing your data.

Sorry its taken awhile to transfer everything... but its been a very mad week or two.

However unlike Dr Who, the bee has not gone :D

14th June

We are currently experiencing some server issues.

When browsing you will see 'server reported the error 500 Cannot find user', please go to the options menu and unselect 'work in bee'.

During this time you will still be able to use the toolbar, but any changes found will not be shared. However everything else will still work as normal.

I will post further updates here.

8th June

Property-bee 2.0 has finally arrived.

This new version adds many great features

  • The ability for users to work in a bee and share information between each other.
  • A new sidebar, which gives you an overview of all the properties you have viewed.
  • Support for sspc.co.uk (some of the other related site will be added in dure course).
  • For the more technical users the storage has changed to use an sqlite database, allowing you to run your own sql queries.

Many thanks to the beta testers; creditcrunch, Dreaded_Estate, Gazz, needle, propertyanalyser and qska for all their hard work and help - I owe you some beer!

There's still plenty more features we are planning to add, but why not tell us about what you think in the forum.

21st May

You may have noticed that rightmove improved their site 8:00am yesterday and property-bee stopped working. This is by design, so that property-bee is less likely to pick up rogue data. There is a new version (1.0.4.3) which works with the new rightmove site.

17th March

We haven't done a release for awhile (tho we have been very busy beavering away on some new features which you will see soon) however being St Patricks Day, it seems like the right time to announce that property-bee 1.0.4.0 supports another site; propertynews.com which covers The Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.

Many thanks to Paul65, sushiepie and parsley for testing property-bee with propertynews.com.. and Paul65 for hassling me!

18th February

Property-bee 1.0.3.0 released which includes wizards to export data in CSV format and transfer property-bee data between computers, plus enhancements and bug fixes for both daft.ie and rightmove.co.uk. See the version history for a full list of the changes.

7th February

Property-bee has officially gone daft! Property-bee 1.0.2.0 was released which supports daft.ie, Ireland's number one property website. Many thanks to Dreaded_Estate from irishpropertywatch.com and the admins from thepropertypin.com for testing this version out before it was released. There has also been a fix to completely support overseas properties on rightmove.co.uk, plus one or two other minor changes.

29th January

Property-bee 1.0.1.0 released. It is now a toobar which can be configured to show as much or as little information you are interested in, plus some other fixes

26th January

Last night we upgraded the forum to the latest shiny version. Unfortunately as part of the upgrade, you can no longer log on with your old password. Instead please select Resend activation e-mail on the log on screen and enter your username and email address you registered with. An email will be sent to you with a link and a new password which you can log on with.

24th January

Thank you for your support and interest, today we passed 1,000 downloads. From your comments in our forum, we are planning an update early next week which includes a fix for the single bug reported (to date) and the ability to customise how the history information is displayed (so it uses less screen space), plus any other improvements we can squeeze in.

23rd January

A momentous occasion, property-bee.com is born.

20th January

Property-bee 1.0.0.0 released to a select group of members of globalhousepricecrash.com, for them to try out and for me to get some feedback before going public with it.