Right Move website

rubble2

We are just in the process of putting our house on the market and have started over the last week or so to look for potential new homes on the Right Move website.

We always use the same search criteria when looking in terms of price location and number of bedrooms, and would expect the same properties to appear on each search (+new properties and - sold properties) but I have found certain houses appearing that weren't there on previous searches suddenly appearing although the date that they were first listed is sometimes weeks or months ago.

Just wondered if these are re-listed houses where sales have fallen through or are the houses shown rotated in some way so that they come and go depending on when you look?

DaftyDuck

Agents have ten thousand ways to "refresh" their listings.... All done to bias what you see.

Never stick to the same search criteria too rigidly either...

JoJo1978

I agree with Dafty. Redo your searches every couple of weeks. Expand your search on price and location to ensure catching everything.

We appeared as 'new' on RM after changing estate agents for example. It was never off the market but was excluded from RM searches for 10 days to 'rest' it so it was able to be a featured property with the new agent.

Slinky

When I was looking I limited my search to the town name and last 7 days and that was it. I was prepared to see anything new coming up whether it fitted my criteria or not. Depends how big an area you're looking at though I suppose.


My friend has just bought somewhere they missed on RM due to searching only for detached, and the place was listed as a semi, although it was only their annex attached by about 6ft to the neighbour. They saw it on a drive through their target area.