What extra filters would you like Rightmove to offer?

[LittleRobins]

What filters do you wish you could use on RightMove? Can be serious, light-hearted or both 🙂

Serious- Double garage
Light-hearted- No noisy neighbours!

Square footage
Better price banding- as the house price increases, the bands get far too wide
Approx age of house
A single/double bedroom filter

I really wish you could select that you hated a house, and it never showed up in your search again.

Heating method
On a Rat-Run road
Proximity to an A road or motorway
Minimum garden size
Aspect of garden

'Garden' should be split into garden with soil, balcony, and astroturf. A balcony is NOT a garden.

Absolute filter for garage - no garage, don't show it to me.

Ban all holiday homes from the site - needs a separate section.

Same for student accommodation that cannot be used by anyone else.

There is a new keyword search being trialled on Rightmove. I always use this on Zoopla so I can search for land and outbuildings so it’s great to have it on Rightmove too.

Yes, and we do. But half the retirement properties aren't filtered out by it

I'd like to be able to filter by number of bathrooms/toilets. We only wanted houses with a downtairs/second loo. Similarly, number of reception rooms/conservatory. Would be much easier to narrow down things we were looking for then.

Garden size and square footage of house. I'm not fussed about number of bedrooms, but am looking to upsize and some 4/5 bedroom houses are only the same size as our current 3 bed house.

As a renter
Whether the landlord is accidental, pension pot or a proper business.

I'd love uber style scores for both tenants and landlords

Land. And no near neighbours.

Council Tax band

No, I don't want your two-bedroom flat in a 70's apartment block if it's Band D. It ought to be Band B at most.

With rentals, I’d like to select a period for the start date of tenancy - right now it just says move in by… think July/August
You can add it as a word filter, but it doesn’t capture it sometimes if it’s not in the description

Other would be whether there are student houses nearby !!! Learnt that the hard way lol

Is this a divorce, bankruptcy or money grabbing kids probate so I can get a good deal.

Funny, I was reading your first paragraph as a way to filter those OUT. Seems that a lot of the time, those words are used to describe places that need of work where they cannot think of other positive words.

Whether the property has the main bathroom upstairs or downstairs. This probably only applies to the smaller terraced houses that were built with limited indoor plumbing in the 1800s/ early 1900s and bathrooms were often added in a downstairs extension.

Lots of the houses in our area are like this, and when we were searching for our current house it was really irritating to find one in the right area/ price bracket then discover it was a downstairs bathroom only. It was one of the few things I didn’t want to compromise on!

A bungalow that means a bungalow- not a chalet house with bedrooms in the bloody roof. 😡

on this note I am seriously contemplating writing to my local planning dept. Where I live there are few bungalows, when they come up for sale they are snapped up by developers and converted into houses. Drives me nuts.

lighthearted: parking issues at school time!

proximity to stations. If you are potentially looking over a wide area then its just too time consuming to set up.

Also distance to next house so I can filter out the "detached" houses that have 2 inches between them and the next property.

non serous - filter out any property with pictures that just show a table or a vase or anything else that doesnt let me see what the damn property looks like.

I want to exclude holiday parks. If you search for houses in some areas, you’re flooded with overpriced caravans and lodges.

Filter out houses with no floor plans! My biggest bug bear. I always assume it means they are trying to hide an awkward layout

www.geoglider.com/
This website is an API to Rightmove and has a lot of the features mentioned, e.g square footage (and £/sqft) and, say, cycling distance to any station. I find the public transport time one dubious though. It has ones for garage, off street parking etc. You can even select for proximity to Waitrose!

I would like the ratio of square foot of windows to square foot of floor space. I need all the light!

Yeah, I always think that when an estate agent describes something as “characterful” they mean “a complete mess”.

Garden size. En suite.

Edited to say Garden size in metres like they give room dimensions.

This! Technically when you buy a house you are buying the plot of land, it's bonkers that you don't have to list it.

I would like the house type filters to work.

You can't rely on detached etc to return ALL and ONLY detached houses.

How many floors, and whether there are any ground floor bedrooms.
Also - whether the house has any disability adaptations.