Remving house picture from sold price websites

AndyT678

snifflette wrote: »

Because it shows everyone the layout of your home if they are thinking of breaking in...

And you feel that the modern skag addict is dilligent enough to have put in the research? Wary perhaps that the owners may have installed a yawning chasm under the window or a complex maze structure behind the front door.

asset2004

Gonzo1987 wrote: »

I don't think buyers are going to go trawling through the internet to see when the wallpaper was last done. In the grand scheme of buying and selling that sort of thing doesn't matter.

perhaps but I know people do look up prices and compare bought/sold and asking prices of houses. By removing the picture makes identifying the house just a bit more difficult

topdaddy_2

AndyT678 wrote: »

And you feel that the modern skag addict is dilligent enough to have put in the research? Wary perhaps that the owners may have installed a yawning chasm under the window or a complex maze structure behind the front door.

They will be all "grab the telly, laptop, phones trash everything else" not "thirty paces east should bring us in to the lounge/diner area".

m_13

I'm surprised at what you are spending your energy on OP after reading your signature. I'm not sure it's possible to remove them all from everywhere.

Gonzo1987

asset2004 wrote: »

perhaps but I know people do look up prices and compare bought/sold and asking prices of houses. By removing the picture makes identifying the house just a bit more difficult

Not really, if you have the door number of the property then voilà there's your info.

Besides, what it sold for previously still isn't relevant to what it's worth now. It's what's happened with the market and comparables that affect the price not what someone bought it for.

mgarl10024

westv wrote: »

Ok.
IMHO it'll be a sad day when people can regularly remove photos of their house from the likes of Rightmove etc.

I agree.

When we moved into our new house, my GF was having trouble visualising where the sofas would go and what size to buy - she had endless sessions of measuring up and looking confused - and was getting quite stressed about it.
Given all the houses are roughly the same size, I suggested looking on rightmove etc. at all of the lounge pictures of houses which had sold on our road over the last 10 or so years, noting which sofa size they had and where they had put it - these were fantastically useful!

houses_for_mouses

certainly one of the reasons why images don't appear for some houses is because the EA has removed them along with the listing, rather than leaving them there with the green 'sold stc' triangle over the top of it.

This may happen because the buyer has requested it from the EA (we did) to ensure no-one even contemplates trying to buy the house, and to eliminate the risk of gazumping. We made our offer on this condition.

In a busy market, and with an unusual one-off property, we didn't want to take that risk, and the EA obliged. We noticed it then didn't appear with pictures on the 'house prices' part of rightmove or zoopla, later once the sale had long gone through.

It can still be found in other ways via google by searching for a lot of words that appear in the rightmove advert description, but it will appear 'faded out'.

kwmlondon

I thought it was up to the EA to do this. Some leave pictures up on their servers so rightmove can still link to them, others will delete them after a sale. I may be wrong, but ask the EA you bought it through first, may be an easy fix?

houses_for_mouses

kwmlondon wrote: »

I thought it was up to the EA to do this. Some leave pictures up on their servers so rightmove can still link to them, others will delete them after a sale. I may be wrong, but ask the EA you bought it through first, may be an easy fix?

exactly.
you just need to ask the EA.
best done during the sale I expect, as they have vested interest (and so do you at that early stage).