Help! Just broken my house on zoopla :-(

iamana1ias

PasturesNew wrote: »

No they won't. If they're in there (unless it's you), they'll treat it as a bit of fun, take on board where the data comes from, then compare your actual house/price/benefits against the other choices.... then come to an adult, informed decision .... or go with the one that the wife thinks has the nicest kitchen.

I think you need to take more water with it. I'm not selling!

StevieJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

But it's just a guesstimate, a handy auto-calculator - and doesn't claim to be anything more.

Do people sue EA's because next door sold for £5k more a month later, even though it hadn't got parking and the kitchen was older? No.

They certainly sue for the strangest reasons

A failed Britain's Got Talent contestant wants more than £2.5m from the TV show because she felt humiliated by the judges.
Emma Amelia Pearl Czikai, 54, lasted only three seconds before Simon Cowell and Piers Morgan buzzed her off in the opening bars of power ballad You Raise Me Up.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20100722/tod-talent-reject-wants-to-sue-cowell-fo-870a197.html

nollag2006

StevieJ wrote: »

They certainly sue for the strangest reasons
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20100722/tod-talent-reject-wants-to-sue-cowell-fo-870a197.html

To be fair - she is somewhat vocally challenged:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ahOqUzVh-Q

Back to the OP's issue. I have emailed Zoopla a number of times with evidence for properties that I have believed to be mis-valued, and they have usually amended their valuation.

Exocet

Phew, just finished for the day. So far have altered 227 Aberdeen properties and managed a 17% drop on average. Law of averages says I'll hit Hamish's area before the weekend's out.

Miss_J

You can amend the prices yourself on Zoopla, I've recently done this myself. I live in a small village, where prices are approximately 20% more than the local town. Looking at my house on Zoopla recently and I saw that they had my house valued at 60K less than my next door neighbour. Our houses are identical apart from next door adding a conservatory on in 2005 and selling it in 2006. I bought my house in 2000 and realised that they were basing my valuation on my house value back in 2000 and also prices for properties in the town. I changed it manually stating that I was the house owner and the reasons why I believed their valuation was incorrect. Just checked it now and they have reviewed the price and valued it 40K higher than they had back in June.

nearlynew

Miss_J wrote: »

You can amend the prices yourself on Zoopla, I've recently done this myself. I live in a small village, where prices are approximately 20% more than the local town. Looking at my house on Zoopla recently and I saw that they had my house valued at 60K less than my next door neighbour. Our houses are identical apart from next door adding a conservatory on in 2005 and selling it in 2006. I bought my house in 2000 and realised that they were basing my valuation on my house value back in 2000 and also prices for properties in the town. I changed it manually stating that I was the house owner and the reasons why I believed their valuation was incorrect. Just checked it now and they have reviewed the price and valued it 40K higher than they had back in June.

Sad.


Really, really sad.

fc123

I just added 10k valuation to mine.....I added on 'improvements' and gave a cost and date. I added 25k of mythical improvements (eg; selected ''upscale kitchen'' and put in 10k and so on.

I will go back and see how much I can knock off it now.

fc123

Managed to lop off 27k this time by ticking 'unmodernised' and 'no central heating' and putting £0 for all the improvements....can't seem to delete them.

I will go and add on an extension and see what it says.

fc123

No option for extension and I couldn't be bothered to go back and add on sq footage so I added 12k of replacement windows and only 1k added on to value.

Davesnave

fc123 wrote: »

so I added 12k of replacement windows and only 1k added on to value.

Should have gone to Everest!

Put a copy of the Daily Express in the living room and give it some flock wallpaper. That should do the trick!