Rightmove wrong number of bedrooms and bathrooms

Tabieth

michael1234 said:

Tabieth said:

Is your house up for sale and RM has incorrect info on the listing? If so, contact your EA. 

If it’s an old RM entry that’s no longer correct - who cares? It’s really not an issue. If / when you come to sell it in the future you can make sure the information is accurate at the time you list it. 

Ahh, so you think its coming from an old EA entry? That would make sense.

Not relevant to my question but RM now have a feature like Zoopla where they provide a valuation. Like it or not, a lot of potential purchasers do look at those numbers when putting in offers.

If someone reads this (an EA perhaps?) and knows whether RM could be challenged please do let me know.

I don’t see why it matters. Houses change over time. They deteriorate, get run down or they improve and get updated. Rooms get added or removed. Extensions get built. The fact that your house has changed the number of bedrooms / bathroom since the RM entry was created is completely normal. I really don’t get why this is an issue. 

michael1234

It matters to me 

Tabieth

michael1234 said:

It matters to me 

Ok. I don’t think you’ll get very far and it seems an awful lot of faff but I presume you have your reasons. Good luck. 

caprikid1

I think the challenge is, this information is in the past, I suspect when you did not own the house, if you did not own the house how can it be information about you because it never was.

That's like trying to correct information about a car that was crashed before you owned it.

Unfortunately it's not your information to ask to be changed IMHO.

eddddy

You're being unhelpfully vague, so people are having to guess what you're talking about.

But if you're referring to Rightmove house price history - it's telling you the price your house achieved last time it was sold, and how many bedrooms and bathrooms it was advertised as having at that time.


(It may be that you have rearranged the rooms, or extended your property since then, but that's not really relevant.)


For example, when the property below was last sold in 2019 for £720k, it was advertised as having 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.

(Maybe it has since been extended, and now has 4 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms - but it would probably be unhelpful to suggest that it sold for £720k in 2019 as a 4 bed / 3 bathroom house.)

RHemmings

My guess as to what the OP is concerned about are estimated prices for houses from the major websites such as Zoopla. These will list the attributes of a house and then give an estimated value for the house. E.g.


(randomly chosen house)

I'm guessing that the OP believes that the number of bedrooms and/or bathrooms is wrong, and hence the estimate of value is lower than it shoud be. And, that they want Zoopla (and Rightmove) to change those figures, but they won't. 

caprikid1

eddddy said:

You're being unhelpfully vague, so people are having to guess what you're talking about.

But if you're referring to Rightmove house price history - it's telling you the price your house achieved last time it was sold, and how many bedrooms and bathrooms it was advertised as having at that time.


(It may be that you have rearranged the rooms, or extended your property since then, but that's not really relevant.)


For example, when the property below was last sold in 2019 for £720k, it was advertised as having 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.

(Maybe it has since been extended, and now has 4 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms - but it would probably be unhelpful to suggest that it sold for £720k in 2019 as a 4 bed / 3 bathroom house.)

Ultimately this is a data relating to a contract (data sharing agreement) with an Estate agent that Rightmove Zoopla had, the reality is you were not part of this data, I suspect it's not ever your personal property in the house.

I am unsure why you think this is "Your data" that they hold about you"

user1977

Especially when they already have an answer from Rightmove that they (understandably) aren’t willing to start a precedent of manually tweaking individual properties’ info when requested to by random correspondents.

RHemmings

user1977 said:

Especially when they already have an answer from Rightmove that they (understandably) aren’t willing to start a precedent of manually tweaking individual properties’ info when requested to by random correspondents.

I would think that a large proportion of those people with loft conversions that can't legally be classified as bedrooms would be requesting to have the number of bedrooms increased. 

MeteredOut

Rightmove has the wrong details for my house too (half the number of bathrooms). Zoopla used to have this wrong too, then fixed it, then it was wrong again, and its currently right again.

I see the estimated valuations on those sites as similar to credit scores - no more than roughly indicative, and a vanity thing for some people.