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What would you filter on to find the perfect home if Rightmove had more search criteria?

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You can search a specific area, choose bedrooms and budget, but while you're looking for a house, what questions do you really wish Rightmove would ask you:
Stuff like:
 
Garden
Period property
Needs renovation
Has a kitchen island
In the catchment of a great school
Walking distance of a particular station or train/tube line 


I've been asked to property find for someone that I don't know that well.  I remember seeing the HUGE application form for Location. Location, Location over a decade ago and it was so detailed!  I want to make sure I'm asking the right questions so that I'm helpful like Kirsty & Phil and less like "A House in the Sun" where no-one ever buys anything.  


Everything that is supposed to be in heaven is already here on earth.
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  • davidmcn
    davidmcn Posts: 23,596 Forumite
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    edited 2 June 2020 at 4:58PM
    The catchment area would be good - I recently drew a custom search area on Rightmove for a friend to correspond with "catchment area of these two schools", but given the map info was on the council website there must be some more whizzy way of doing it.

    Also have drawn a "within x minutes walking distance from this station" custom search area though that's probably trickier to do automatically.
  • UnderOffer
    UnderOffer Posts: 815 Forumite
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    Double garage or number of off road parking spaces would be helpful. We have several new build sites here which have lovely looking large houses but you then discover it has parking for one car once you read the description. 
  • AdrianC
    AdrianC Posts: 42,189 Forumite
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    edited 2 June 2020 at 5:03PM
    Frankly, I don't trust EAs to fill in the fields they've already got correctly, so I'd not bother narrowing it that tightly.

    You've also got some very nebulous suggestions in there. What's a "great" school? Whose idea of "renovation"? The 1970s were a "period"...
  • Scotbot
    Scotbot Posts: 1,535 Forumite
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    edited 2 June 2020 at 5:08PM
    Deal breakers for me are noisy/busy roads and downstairs bathroom. Most people have a preference re open plan and kitchen diner vs lounge diner. As a keen cook I can't  stand a combined kitchen living space. I  don't  want to live with my messy kitchen and cooking odours 24/7 but some people love it.
  • Sensory
    Sensory Posts: 497 Forumite
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    No parking spaces.
    No boats.
    No shared ownership should actually mean no shared ownership.
  • Doozergirl
    Doozergirl Posts: 34,075 Forumite
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    edited 2 June 2020 at 5:19PM
    Sensory said:
    No parking spaces.
    No boats.
    No shared ownership should actually mean no shared ownership.
    Im with you there! What would be personal to you though, do you think?  What's important for Sensory's house to have?
    Everything that is supposed to be in heaven is already here on earth.
  • Mickey666
    Mickey666 Posts: 2,834 Forumite
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    The sort of things I'd be looking for (among others) would be:
    - no near neighbours
    - not visible from a public place
    - extensive grounds
    - outbuildings/sheds
    But Google Earth is usually good enough for checking that sort of thing, at least for compiling a shortlist of places worth visiting.
  • Marvel1
    Marvel1 Posts: 7,435 Forumite
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    edited 2 June 2020 at 5:35PM
    Driveway 
    Freehold
    Open space with kitchen = no
    Distance to motorway
    Amount of traffic daily
    Wjatbis parking like outside the house
    Is a school too close to the street
    Walking distance to a shop
    How far from lidls?
  • Chloe901
    Chloe901 Posts: 98 Forumite
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    For me I would love to search for
    - parking for multiple cars
    - garage which is actually a garage and hasn't been converted or chopped in half
    - not on a main road
    - separate dining room
    - number of bathrooms
    - by square footage/similar


    On the On the Market website you can search for 'character property' which is sort of helpful, although one man's "Character" is another man's "Why oh why would you do that?!"

    Finally, (and this is a bit of a weird one perhaps) I'd like to be able to search for houses which are not near things - not near a pub, not near a station, not near a school, fewer than X neighbours on same road. All of these things impact on noise and traffic and for me, they play a big role in whether a house suits, so if I could exclude some without dragging that little orange map man around for 20 mins I'd be happy! 



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