Problems with Rightmove

Gavin83

It's pointless anyway. Even if you did act such criteria the EAs will extend the truth anyway, just like they do now.

Skiddaw1

We found Rightmove incredibly useful when we were last house-hunting. As per others, the last time we bought (2000) the internet was still very much in an embryonic state and it was a case of doing it the old-fashioned way (EA's windows mainly). As we were relocating from south to north this time, it was wonderful to be able to browse so many areas and fix on a long-list (which we narrowed down before we viewed). I still love searching Rightmove. I wouldn't change a thing.

Elliott.T123

lika_86 said:

I'm surprised they've never introduced filters for features such as amount of land, swimming pool, stables etc.

The amount of land one is the big one that I would like.

Schwarzwald

i do agree that the filtering options are quite poor on any of the property sites, be it RM, Zoopla or any other.

Just compare it to car marketplaces, eg Autotrader, you have far more filter options, which can streamline your sarch very nicely.

people are joking with helipad, etc., but filter options like "cellar", "Off-street parking", etc. would indeed be quite helpful.

as this would be a quite easy and also marketplace standard addition to the site, it must be a structural "problem" that the property suppliers, ie EAs, dont want to provide it. I would guess its not really in the interest of EAs to be too specific upfront to increase number of eye balls reviewing online ads and also getting people to book viewings.

YoungBlueEyes

I don't agree that it'd be too much bother for the ea's to provide the info - propertypal manages it just fine. Ok that's only for properties in Norn Iron but it shows it can be done. You can even specify room for a pony space for a horse. The filters are far more detailed than RM.  Catch up England!

https://www.propertypal.com/property-for-sale/northern-ireland

Schwarzwald

another filter that would be beyond helpful is: freehold vs leashold ... but again, it would be easy to implement these filters, but if the info providers, EAs, are not keen to do this, i guess difficult for the marketplaces themselves to 

cass88

So i've just accepted an offer on my property which went onto rightmove. I used a more premium local estate agent, cost 2.5x the price of some other agents costs but they offer a more "premium service", notably the photos and video are professionally done and you can really tell the difference...Anyways when the advert went live on rightmove there wasnt a great level of detail on the advert and no floorplan present which i was suprised at. 

Called the valuer and asked, she said that rightmove is all about the "tease", giving just the right level of information to spark peoples interest that they arrange a viewing to find out more information. Its then the feeling a potential buyer gets when they view that actually sells it. The more information, filters etc means less need for viewings to make decisions and people scroll past. Made sense to me and ours sold in 6 weeks which included a period over xmas

jrawle

cass88 said:

Called the valuer and asked, she said that rightmove is all about the "tease", giving just the right level of information to spark peoples interest that they arrange a viewing to find out more information. Its then the feeling a potential buyer gets when they view that actually sells it. The more information, filters etc means less need for viewings to make decisions and people scroll past. Made sense to me and ours sold in 6 weeks which included a period over xmas

When I was looking at Rightmove, if I saw an advert and there was no floor plan, it was a case of disregard and move on to the next listing. Ditto if there were next to no photos. I wouldn't waste my time booking a viewing if a property had an open plan kitchen-living room, or no windows to the bathrooms for example, and I don't want to travel to a viewing only to see in one minute that I didn't like the house. I'm sure others are the same. You want as many viewings for your property as possible, so both those like me, who want to see the information all for themselves before viewing, and others who prefer a tease and to phone an estate agent. Your house may have sold, but would it have sold for more if you had those additional viewers who moved on due to lack of floor plan?

cass88

jrawle said:

cass88 said:

Called the valuer and asked, she said that rightmove is all about the "tease", giving just the right level of information to spark peoples interest that they arrange a viewing to find out more information. Its then the feeling a potential buyer gets when they view that actually sells it. The more information, filters etc means less need for viewings to make decisions and people scroll past. Made sense to me and ours sold in 6 weeks which included a period over xmas

When I was looking at Rightmove, if I saw an advert and there was no floor plan, it was a case of disregard and move on to the next listing. Ditto if there were next to no photos. I wouldn't waste my time booking a viewing if a property had an open plan kitchen-living room, or no windows to the bathrooms for example, and I don't want to travel to a viewing only to see in one minute that I didn't like the house. I'm sure others are the same. You want as many viewings for your property as possible, so both those like me, who want to see the information all for themselves before viewing, and others who prefer a tease and to phone an estate agent. Your house may have sold, but would it have sold for more if you had those additional viewers who moved on due to lack of floor plan?

Hard to be sure to be honest but they included plenty of high quality photos that would answer your examples. When i asked the estate agent she offered to add a floor plan but quoted survey data (granted she could have pulled it out of thin air) that says on balance more people identify a floorplan as detractor for viewing than an attractor. Who knows though, everyones different.

EssexHebridean

Yep - lack of a floor plan is also a straight "no, move on" from me as well. There were certain things we did/didn't want which the floorplan would either confirm or deny - and my view was very much that if someone couldn't be bothered with a floorplan, then I couldn't be bothered looking any further.