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Rightmove sold property information

Why is it that when you look at sold data for flats, all the photos have been removed. You can look back at photos of sold houses, but flat images get deleted.
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Comments

  • user1977
    user1977 Posts: 17,332 Forumite
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    I think it's just coincidence for the properties you happen to be looking at, rather than a policy. I can see plenty of flats with photos and houses without.
  • DE_612183
    DE_612183 Posts: 3,457 Forumite
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    more likely it depends on the estate agent and what info they leave on rightmove.

    perhaps some EA's tend to specialise in Flats and they don't leave the photos on,
  • eddddy
    eddddy Posts: 17,780 Forumite
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    It's very unlikely that Rightmove have deleted the images.


    It might be an issue with 'address matching' - which is sometimes harder with flat addresses, than house addresses.
    • Land registry provide an address, as it appears on the deeds (along with a sale price)
    • Rightmove's software tries to match that with an address provided by an estate agent when the property was last listed (to find the correct images)

    If the software can't match the addresses, it can't display the relevant images.



  • MikeJXE
    MikeJXE Posts: 3,846 Forumite
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    I live in a flat and there are 7 in the block

    Sold prices going back to 2006 all show photos
  • eddddy
    eddddy Posts: 17,780 Forumite
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    DE_612183 said:
    more likely it depends on the estate agent and what info they leave on rightmove.

    perhaps some EA's tend to specialise in Flats and they don't leave the photos on,

    Rightmove retain all the data from listings (including images) in their property database - even after estate agents end listings.

    As of 2013 they claimed they had 2 billion images stored, so I guess they have many more than that now.


  • emma203
    emma203 Posts: 41 Forumite
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    The seller can also ask for the images to be removed - I requested this for my late mother's house and Rightmove took them down straight away. 
  • Slinky
    Slinky Posts: 10,921 Forumite
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    Thanks all.  The ones I'm not seeing are retirement flats (just nosing, not looking to buy!).
    Make £2025 in 2025
    Prolific £229.82, Octopoints £4.27, Topcashback £290.85, Tesco Clubcard challenges £60, Misc Sales £321, Airtime £10.
    Total £915.94/£2025 45.2%

    Make £2024 in 2024
    Prolific £907.37, Chase Intt £59.97, Chase roundup int £3.55, Chase CB £122.88, Roadkill £1.30, Octopus referral reward £50, Octopoints £70.46, Topcashback £112.03, Shopmium referral £3, Iceland bonus £4, Ipsos survey £20, Misc Sales £55.44
    Total £1410/£2024  70%

    Make £2023 in 2023  Total: £2606.33/£2023  128.8%



  • Bookworm105
    Bookworm105 Posts: 2,016 Forumite
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    Slinky said:
    Thanks all.  The ones I'm not seeing are retirement flats (just nosing, not looking to buy!).
    the inheritor asked for it to be taken down so HMRC can no longer see the antique Ming vase in the photo that they "forgot" to declare for inheritance tax and have now sold 
  • Slinky
    Slinky Posts: 10,921 Forumite
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    Slinky said:
    Thanks all.  The ones I'm not seeing are retirement flats (just nosing, not looking to buy!).
    the inheritor asked for it to be taken down so HMRC can no longer see the antique Ming vase in the photo that they "forgot" to declare for inheritance tax and have now sold 

    Can't imagine that a whole development has had a Ming or other valuable property in every flat :D
    Make £2025 in 2025
    Prolific £229.82, Octopoints £4.27, Topcashback £290.85, Tesco Clubcard challenges £60, Misc Sales £321, Airtime £10.
    Total £915.94/£2025 45.2%

    Make £2024 in 2024
    Prolific £907.37, Chase Intt £59.97, Chase roundup int £3.55, Chase CB £122.88, Roadkill £1.30, Octopus referral reward £50, Octopoints £70.46, Topcashback £112.03, Shopmium referral £3, Iceland bonus £4, Ipsos survey £20, Misc Sales £55.44
    Total £1410/£2024  70%

    Make £2023 in 2023  Total: £2606.33/£2023  128.8%



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