Multiple flat letters same property

blinko

Hi All,

I've encountered several properties recently where the flat letters appear to be different (sometimes more flats than are actually at the property) yet the pictures appear to be the same.

Example
flat A


Flat E


Flat F

Does anyone know what to make of it?

Lord_Baltimore

The landlord is clearly having extra-marital affairs with the occupiers of flats B, C and D and therefore 'hides' these numbers. His wife is suspicious and checks Rightmove for incriminating evidence so the landlord only uploads flat pictures that do not show his clothes strewn about, especially the underpants with Mickey Mouse on that his wife bought him.

L Baltimore
111z Church Street
London

AlexMac

Check the interwebby. The freeholder has manipulated the Zoopla property website, Land Registy and local estate agents to the false belief that there are six flats with an aggregate value of almost £1million in this crummy Victorian House in a London borough described by the BBC as "A relatively deprived area, almost a quarter of the population lives in social housing, with one in 10 households run by a jobless adult with children..." http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/constituencies/E14000687

Even less credible is the £90 pcm service charge on each flat which means the freeholder's trousering £6.5k pa which certainly ain't going on maintenance..

Or maybe it's one of these notorious East London phantom postal voter electoral registration scams...? http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2010/may/02/postal-voting-electoral-fraud

eddddy

So here's my assessment (based on 5 mins research) ...

in 1989, a pair of semis, 111 and 113 Church Street, got planning consent for conversion to 8 flats.

'113 Church Street' no longer exists as an address. (So feel free to use it for scam credit card applications etc.)

Instead the developers decided to call the 8 flats : 111a thru 111h Church street.


Rightmove takes info from Land Registry, and it takes photos etc from EA listings. It attempts to match them up. On this occasion its matching algorithm failed - it's matching one set of photos to multiple LR properties.

(I suspect there are many other less obvious mismatches in the rightmoves database.)

blinko

Thanks eddddy, how on earth did you find all that out?
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Thanks AlexMac - A question what advantage would the individual gain by manipulating Zoopla/Rightmove etc?
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My concern was that these properties were being registered with different flat letters due to their being problems with the lease etc.
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Then the Land Registry/solicitor says ok well there is no flat F entry on LR and so we have to create one. The lease has been adjusted/falsified to prevent the sale failing through and there you go flat A,B,C,D,E,F