Rightmove sold price pictures

Horizon81

From many years using rightmove I've noticed that when a house is currently for sale and you go to check the sold price, the accompanying pictures (usually from the time the property was last sold) are no longer available and you can only see the current pictures from the latest advert.

Thing is, my house is currently for sale but when I go into the sold price section of the website, the old pictures from when it last sold are still there. Is this something my estate agent hasn't done right? Any agents on here able to advise? I can only guess the agent hasn't uploaded the full address on whatever portal it uses and so rightmove can't match my current advert pics with the old pics?

sevenhills

Horizon81 wrote: »

From many years using rightmove I've noticed that when a house is currently for sale and you go to check the sold price, the accompanying pictures (usually from the time the property was last sold) are no longer available and you can only see the current pictures from the latest advert.

That is not my experience, there are fewer photos if you go back a long way, but there are 21 photos of one of my neighbours houses that was sold in 2016

walwyn1978

Some people ask that information isn’t put on (my brother did on his last house, not sure why) so it tells you purchase price but not historical photos, advert text etc.

Davesnave

Horizon81 wrote: »

From many years using rightmove I've noticed that when a house is currently for sale and you go to check the sold price, the accompanying pictures (usually from the time the property was last sold) are no longer available and you can only see the current pictures from the latest advert.

This is not true. Sometimes the old pictures are there, sometimes not.

On this forum, people have used the old pictures to ascertain how much work has apparently been done on a property, or to compare the quality of advertising 'then and now.'

As sevenhills says, the further back one goes the less likely it is that there will be photos. In our postcode, pictures go back to 2006.

We bought in 2009, but our house isn't even listed, on Rightmove, or any other sold price site, despite being advertised/sold through a Rightmove agent. Random things happen; even agents are human!

billy2shots

Rightmove can be a bit random for this. I also use Zoopla as you can see past listings with older photos when Rightmove doesn't show me what I want.

Horizon81

sevenhills wrote: »

That is not my experience, there are fewer photos if you go back a long way, but there are 21 photos of one of my neighbours houses that was sold in 2016

Yes but is your neighbours house currently for sale?My point is that with houses currently for sale, the most recent pictures usually over-ride the previous ones.