Rightmove and Zoopla houses listed over my limit!

knightstyle

So I have put in several searches and lots, almost half those listed are well over my limit.
They are from Home Wise and offer a lifetime lease for a reduced price. Then lower down the page is the real selling price!
How do I stop these from coming up on my searches?

Cakeguts

Stop using these sites and use the websites of the individual estate agents in the areas that you are interested in.

hazyjo

Set a minimum price on searches. You must know roughly what bracket you're looking in. These sorts of things tend to come up in the ridiculously low price brackets. Might help...

Jx

Tassotti

click 'Non-Retirement' option

ThePants999

Tassotti is correct. Annoyed me for ages until I figured it out.

Cakeguts: don't be ridiculous, who the hell browses fifteen different estate agent websites instead of one site with all the same properties on it? Everyone uses RM/Zoopla these days.

Running_Horse

Has anyone looked into what happens with these schemes? What if you need to move? Getting a more expensive house cheap sounds great, but it sounds like a lifetime tenancy, with no chance of passing anything onto kids. I would not bother maintaining such a property. Many of them are just normal houses, maybe unsuited as people get older and inform.

Cakeguts

ThePants999 wrote: »

Tassotti is correct. Annoyed me for ages until I figured it out.

Cakeguts: don't be ridiculous, who the hell browses fifteen different estate agent websites instead of one site with all the same properties on it? Everyone uses RM/Zoopla these days.

Not if they are seriously interested in buying they don't. Some properties don't make it as far as Rightmove or Zoopla. If you are really seriously interested in buying or renting you have to contact the estate agents offices.

knightstyle

Thanks Tassotti will try that. Trouble is that we are looking for a property within 1 hour of Worthing so would have to look at hundreds of agents.

ThePants999

Gosh, that's an awful lot of people every year then who actually go all the way through with buying property but aren't "seriously interested in buying". Myself included. Wish someone had told me earlier that despite looking through hundreds of properties, and buying one, I wasn't seriously interested.

MerrilyA

Cakeguts is right.

When looking for a house, I started looking on right move and zoopla but found when I went on agents websites there were properties listed there that weren't on rightmove and zoopla.

knightstyle it'll be good for you to get in touch with some estate agents that have listed several properties that are of interest. Let them know your budget and how ready you are to buy, get them to send you alerts of properties some will know about just before they come on the market.

marsman802

Have to agree with cake guts.

My own house sold (stc) to a buyer who was registered with the agency. He bid one day before any posting of the house on the agents website and I accepted as it was full asking (after a bit of negotiation)