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My home is a detached house
andys15
Posts: 1,117 Forumite
BUT it is listed as semi detached everywhere I look. Rightmove, house price.co.uk, mouseprice, I changed it myself on Zoopla I dont think that is a problem or is it?
Debt free. March 2020
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Yes, it matters. I'd get it changed."If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." -- Red Adair0
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If someone does a search looking for detached houses yours won't come up will it? Big problem!!0
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EA's ad and rightmove - yes. The rest, not so much. Zoopla, mouseprice et al are notoriously inaccurate on the details like that, but if you are trying to sell, the advert should be describing the property accurately.
I've more commonly come across terraced houses claiming to be detached!0 -
When the neighbours realise that they don't have a house...
... all hell will break loose.
GGThere are 10 types of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those that don't.0 -
I'd get it changed, we only searched for detached houses so would have missed yours.0
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These descriptions can be very misleading - you have link detached - which is actually not detached at all but terraced with varying rooflines.
My house is detached but if you looked at pictures of it you might think it was a terrace - 4" on one side 1" on the other.
Unless you know the actual properties ion question, things like Zoopla are very confusing and can cause those who don't understand to come up with quite bizarre ideas about the value of their property.RICHARD WEBSTER
As a retired conveyancing solicitor I believe the information given in the post to be useful assuming any properties concerned are in England/Wales but I accept no liability for it.0 -
Richard_Webster wrote: »These descriptions can be very misleading - you have link detached - which is actually not detached at all but terraced with varying rooflines.
My house is detached but if you looked at pictures of it you might think it was a terrace - 4" on one side 1" on the other.
Unless you know the actual properties ion question, things like Zoopla are very confusing and can cause those who don't understand to come up with quite bizarre ideas about the value of their property.
I dont have link detached. I am very much detached.Debt free. March 20200 -
No, but if you are relying on something like Zoopla you wouldn't like it if someone categorised a load of link detached (and presumably therefore cheaper) houses as detached and that pulled the average price of detached in your area down!
Somebody sits down and goes through these listings and categorises each property and sometimes they get the categories wrong.RICHARD WEBSTER
As a retired conveyancing solicitor I believe the information given in the post to be useful assuming any properties concerned are in England/Wales but I accept no liability for it.0
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