Rightmove/Prime location "about the neighbours"

Miss.Twizz

Does anyone remember the "about the neighbours" section on the house sale websites like rightmove or prime location? I can't remember exactly which one had it, but when you viewed a property on whichever site it was, you could scroll down to some really useful demographic information for the area shown in some graphs. Things like housing type (private rented/owned mortgage/owned no mortgage/social housing) interests (sports/travel etc), occupation (eg sole trader/clerical/manager/etc) I think it had something about household (like retired/couples without children/with children) ...and other bits I can't remember, I think newspaper preferences or something was there.....

Anyway, when buying our house I found those tools SO incredibly helpful when trying to assess if unfamiliar areas would be a good fit for us. We're needing to move again and will be looking at an unfamiliar city and surrounding areas. So, naturally, I headed straight to the zoopla/rightmove/Prime location sites but I can't find the "about the neighbours" section on any of them anymore! It's gone and I can't find anything similar.

Does anyone know why on earth such an instrumental and useful tool was removed, and has anyone found anything similar anywhere else? Moving to an new place is overwhelming enough as it is, I'm really not looking forward to doing it without the headstart that amazing tool have us last time. 

user1977

Plenty of other places with demographic info, I doubt there was anything exclusive to Rightmove, https://www.streetcheck.co.uk/ would be one example.

Marvel1

user1977 said:

Plenty of other places with demographic info, I doubt there was anything exclusive to Rightmove, https://www.streetcheck.co.uk/ would be one example.

I just checked my street, says 125 houses, which 46 are semi detached.  More like 50 all teraced, stopped reading afrer that.

shinytop

Marvel1 said:

user1977 said:

Plenty of other places with demographic info, I doubt there was anything exclusive to Rightmove, https://www.streetcheck.co.uk/ would be one example.

I just checked my street, says 125 houses, which 46 are semi detached.  More like 50 all teraced, stopped reading afrer that.

Did you read it properly though, i.e. did you check which area is covered?  It's likely to be a group of streets, not just yours.  After you enter your postcode, look under the map for a link to highlight the area.  When I ask for my postcode I get the whole village.  It explains it very clearly but it's done to protect anonymity. 

Albermarle

Miss.Twizz said:

Does anyone remember the "about the neighbours" section on the house sale websites like rightmove or prime location? I can't remember exactly which one had it, but when you viewed a property on whichever site it was, you could scroll down to some really useful demographic information for the area shown in some graphs. Things like housing type (private rented/owned mortgage/owned no mortgage/social housing) interests (sports/travel etc), occupation (eg sole trader/clerical/manager/etc) I think it had something about household (like retired/couples without children/with children) ...and other bits I can't remember, I think newspaper preferences or something was there.....

Anyway, when buying our house I found those tools SO incredibly helpful when trying to assess if unfamiliar areas would be a good fit for us. We're needing to move again and will be looking at an unfamiliar city and surrounding areas. So, naturally, I headed straight to the zoopla/rightmove/Prime location sites but I can't find the "about the neighbours" section on any of them anymore! It's gone and I can't find anything similar.

Does anyone know why on earth such an instrumental and useful tool was removed, and has anyone found anything similar anywhere else? Moving to an new place is overwhelming enough as it is, I'm really not looking forward to doing it without the headstart that amazing tool have us last time. 

Probably because they had to pay for it.
Anyway I just checked my post code on streetcheck, and the entry was totally unrepresentative.