Deleting photos from listing, rightmove zoopla etc

ladybee

Has anyone had any success getting photos of an old listing removed once they'd purchased a property? I see plenty of rightmove sold listings without photos or details. I've contacted rightmove and they're saying they can delete them once they appear online on their website (approx 3 months time).... i'm wondering if anyone has been able to get them deleted in any other way sooner?

hazyjo

The photos will probably still be available on zoopla (mine are still there from a couple of years ago) and online and cached pages etc so can't see the point. Why would you want the listing deleted? Thousands of others just leave it until it eventually disappears.

comedyseeker123

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markin

Must be so he/she can flip it without doing any work and no one can see what it looked like and say he didn't do anything to increase its value?


You don't own the photos, so i don't see why you should be able to remove them.

vacheron

The photos of the house we bought in 2010 are still up in many places on the internet.

Even if you had Rightmove remove them, someone wanting to find them will be able to do so fairly easily.

As others have said, i'm curious why you would want this to happen, I've never encountered anyone else who had an issue with this?

Soot2006

I used the rightmove and zoopla search functions to view all the previous sales photos of houses we were viewing, going back many sales over the year. This suggests they're never really "gone".

ladybee

Thanks all. Just for privacy! Turns out I could just ring rightmove and they have deleted them. Will keep an eye on zoopla to see if they appear on there.

PasturesNew

The more you try to hide them, the more people will think you're trying to hide something... so the more they'll go digging about ....

If you make it easy for them to be seen, nobody'll bother as it was "too easy".

I've noticed in my area that most flats do not have any photos remaining.

hazyjo

comedyseeker123 wrote: »

WayBackMachine

Fantastic website - someone mentioned it to me a few weeks ago and I managed to get my entire website back which I thought had gone forever! Wish I'd seen it mentioned on here sooner lol. WBM has prob been around years and I didn't know about it. Ta.


(Sorry to go a bit off topic!)

LawAbiding

Not sure what the privacy reasons are, as when the photos were taken, the house wasn't yours?!

epinjy

Email rightmove or zoopla with proof you own the house and they will remove them.

markin wrote: »

Must be so he/she can flip it without doing any work and no one can see what it looked like and say he didn't do anything to increase its value?


You don't own the photos, so i don't see why you should be able to remove them.

I had photos of my house removed for security. I have large glass doors to the rear of my property (out of public view) that would be an easy point of entry to my house. Obviously, if someone wanted to get in to my house they would easily manage it regardless, I just don't want my house to stand out as a visibly easy target by someone doing a quick skim online through property listings.