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Sold house still on rightmove

amandacat
amandacat Posts: 575 Forumite
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I completed on my house sale at the end of January, we are now in May and my house still shows on rightmove as sold stc
Seems strange the EA would still be paying for the listing 4 months following completion. Is this a promotional tactic e.g. to show off their sold houses?
I know this is a bit of a non thread but I can't believe it is still on rightmove being advertised as sold stc after all this time! 

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  • GDB2222
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    Have you contacted the agents to ask them?
    No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?
  • RelievedSheff
    RelievedSheff Posts: 12,603 Forumite
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    There are loads in our area that have been sold and are still on Rightmove. One sold over 12 months ago now!!
  • GDB2222
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    RelievedSheff said:
    There are loads in our area that have been sold and are still on Rightmove. One sold over 12 months ago now!!
    Does that help to make the market look even more red hot than it actually is? Last time I looked in the Sheffield area, 75-80% of properties were SSTC.  Of course, if sold properties never get cleared off the system, that proportion would just keep on rising. :)
    No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?
  • RelievedSheff
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    GDB2222 said:
    RelievedSheff said:
    There are loads in our area that have been sold and are still on Rightmove. One sold over 12 months ago now!!
    Does that help to make the market look even more red hot than it actually is? Last time I looked in the Sheffield area, 75-80% of properties were SSTC.  Of course, if sold properties never get cleared off the system, that proportion would just keep on rising. :)
    We are Worksop but the same applies :)
  • cosh25
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    This happened where I lived in a city in NE England. There was some inter estate agent war of words as apparently one of them was keeping their SSTC houses on rightmove, zoopla etc and then advertising that they had sold the highest amount of houses that month according to rightmove, when infact some were sold a long time ago. Guess its a marketing tactic for anyone looking to sell their house.
  • eddddy
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    amandacat said:
    Seems strange the EA would still be paying for the listing 4 months following completion. 

    FWIW, Rightmove charge EAs a fixed monthly subscription per branch. They don't charge for each property listed. So they won't be paying anything extra to leave your property listed for 4 months.

  • amandacat
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    lincroft1710 said:
    Be thankful for small mercies!

    Way back in the 1970s, EA gave me the keys of a house for sale to go and view on my own. When I got there I met with the new owners who had bought the place and moved in several weeks earlier!
    I probably shouldn't have laughed as much as this. Those poor new owners haha
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