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Mystery very low price sale - Rightmove and Zoopla disagree
RainbowsInTheSpray
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Yesterday I was checking the 'sold prices' history of a small development which I might like to move to. I've been keeping an eye on it for a few years now.
To my amazement, Zoopla is listing a sale in December 2024 on one of the (8) properties concerned which had entirely escaped my notice at the time. I neither noticed it coming on to the market nor selling, which is extremely odd, to put it mildly.
Added to which, the sold price mentioned is way, way below what should have been the going rate. We're talking in the hundreds of thousands.
Finally - icing on cake - Rightmove sold prices has no such record.
I am totally mystified.
To my amazement, Zoopla is listing a sale in December 2024 on one of the (8) properties concerned which had entirely escaped my notice at the time. I neither noticed it coming on to the market nor selling, which is extremely odd, to put it mildly.
Added to which, the sold price mentioned is way, way below what should have been the going rate. We're talking in the hundreds of thousands.
Finally - icing on cake - Rightmove sold prices has no such record.
I am totally mystified.
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For the definitive answer you would need to go onto the Land registry site. I think it would show you the date the last sale was made without having to pay to download the price.
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Typo, human error, wrong address, someone at Zoopla having a laugh. Something like that maybe,0
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Indeed I was wondering whether there may have been some internal family transfer situation here. A sale at the level quoted would surely have implications for correct Stamp Duty liability...silvercar said:For the definitive answer you would need to go onto the Land registry site. I think it would show you the date the last sale was made without having to pay to download the price.
It could be a transfer of equity that has been incorrectly recorded as a sale.0 -
No possibility of that, sadly.silvercar said:For the definitive answer you would need to go onto the Land registry site. I think it would show you the date the last sale was made without having to pay to download the price.
It could be a transfer of equity that has been incorrectly recorded as a sale.0 -
If it wasn't an open-market sale then the price is irrelevant for your purposes anyway.0
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For my purposes, yes. Might be relevant to HMRC, though...0
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I doubt it. Why would it, any more than any other transaction?RainbowsInTheSpray said:For my purposes, yes. Might be relevant to HMRC, though...0 -
Did you try here:RainbowsInTheSpray said:
No possibility of that, sadly.silvercar said:For the definitive answer you would need to go onto the Land registry site. I think it would show you the date the last sale was made without having to pay to download the price.
It could be a transfer of equity that has been incorrectly recorded as a sale.
https://landregistry.data.gov.uk/app/ppd/?relative_url_root=%2Fapp%2Fppd
Your life is too short to be unhappy 5 days a week in exchange for 2 days of freedom!0 -
We have one like that in our street. It sold for £505K, but if you look at the land registry record, there's an entry about 3 months before for £140K. Must have been something to do with equity transfer as mentioned above, because the people who put it up for sale were still living there right up to the completion date for the £505K sale.Make £2026 in 2026
Prolific £177.46, TCB £10.90, Everup £27.79, Roadkill £1.17
Total £217.32 10.7%Make £2025 in 2025 Total £2241.23/£2025 110.7%
Prolific £1062.50, Octopoints £6.64, TCB £492.05, Tesco Clubcard challenges £89.90, Misc Sales £321, Airtime £70, Shopmium £53.06, Everup £106.08, Zopa CB £30, Misc survey £10
Make £2024 in 2024 Total £1410/£2024 70%Make £2023 in 2023 Total: £2606.33/£2023 128.8%0 -
Could it be a transfer of title rather than a sale? Freehold being purchased?0
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