.... to think it should be illegal to put a for sale sign outside a house before it goes on Rightmove?

[HidingBehindTheWallpaper]

How am I meant to look at the asking price and be rude about their furniture?

awaits posts from people telling me not to be nosy

Just knock on the door and ask to have a look!

Are you mad? You can't do that. I'm English for heaven's sake.

Oh god yes I agree!

There was a house for sale on one of my favourite streets near here (with YOPA) and it took me a week..A WEEK...before I could confirm it was totally out of my price range and needed a new bathroom!!

Yes! My neighbour put their house up for sale but 'didn't want it online'. It took six months til she caved and I found out the asking price and could obsess over the floor plan and whether she had a bigger bedroom.

Ugh. Don't get me started. I also think it should be illegal for them to not put the floor plan on rightmove.

YANBU! The suspense is too much. I need to know if their kitchen is newer than mine and if their walls are painted unpleasant shades.

Yanbu. My ndn has just sold her house. She's a very private person and I have never had a conversation with her other than a brief greeting before she scurries back inside in the 5 years we've lived here. I was dying to have a nosy!

It should also be illegal not to put up the sold bit when an offer has been accepted! We had so many people knocking on the door when the kids were in bed and I was in my pyjamas eating Maltesers after our house was sold that we phoned the lazy agent and requested a sold sign.

Who are these people who knock on doors? Don't they know the etiquette of phoning the agent? Do they think I'm going to let them in without the chance to hide 15,000 toys in the shed, clean the smears of yoghurt from the walls and hide all traces of the cat first?

YANBU.

It should also be a legal requirement for estate agents websites to include a photo of every room in the house, plus the garden.

@HidingBehindTheWallpaper I'm English and this is literally how I bought my house :)

YANBU! A house 4 doors down from us has had a for sale board arrive today but is it on Rightmove? Of course not! The suspense is painful!

@IndianaMoleWoman that's me 🙋 I'm that person

@TheEdgeOfGlory266 100000% agree. We need floor plans!!!

And when you do put them up, don't use the wide stretch effect, show different angles of each room, yes I want to see every room (including the hallway) and obviously I want to see how many cupboards there are!

I went to view a house the other month and they had turned the hallway into the dining room and I didn't understand!

YANBU. Board should go up after pictures and details posted online. And YY not just one photo of a random room, we need to see everything from all angles.

Totally ageee, it's torture!

Round here, houses are put online/Rightmove if no one enquires after it for over a week.

I saw a beeyooteefull little bungalow and looked up the estate agent online after a trawl through Rightmove. Nada.

I had to ring the estate agent to enquire about the price and explained that I couldn't find the house online.

She explained that they had high hopes the house would sell before a fortnight had passed and it may never go online.

Are you mad? You can't do that. I'm English for heaven's sake.

That's how I sold my first house. Heard a knock at the door, they asked to see it and it was a Sunday and offered on Monday.

Oh well, there's always terriblerealestateagentphotos.com/ if you want to see some shite houses.

My current rant is the lack of an effing floor plan. Currently on holiday, seen a house back home I like the look of but no floor plan. How am I supposed to see what it’s really like FGS?

IMO it should be illegal for sold prices to take 3 months to come up on the Land Reg/nethouseprices. Causes a lot of suffering to nosy people like me.

They also need to add the shade and maker of the paint they used and where they bought their furniture so that I can be v. nosy the truly nosy have their curiosity satisfied.

Whilst we're on the subject of photos, I don't recall there being an apocalypse near me recently but judging by the sky in these Yopa photos this house a few streets over definitely experienced it. They've just changed agents and had much more normal photos before:
www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-68538464.html

Can I add that I dont want photographs using a lens so wide I can see the backs of the photographer's ears.

Plans: can we please go back to the standard line drawn variety instead of the new-fangled 3D variety.