.... 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

@TheEdgeOfGlory266 I'm the same.
It's killing me. I drew my own the other day...

I also think it should be compulsory for the house to be displayed online a couple of years later. Basically, a right move posting but not actually for sale. There's a load of beautiful old houses selling around here that will surely be amazing once they've been renovated, but I'll never know .

a thread after my own heart.

My friend's neighbour had a Sold sign go straight up outside their house - nevermind we thought, we can go online and see how much it was on for but no, the estate agent sold it before even taking a single photo. How very dare they

Try the agents website. When I was selling 3 years ago I was told that rightmove basically spider off the agents which is why it takes 48-72hrs for them to appear.
Reminds me I saw a for sale sign today...

DH has suggested 'scratch-and-sniff' estate agents details. That way you can confirm whether it was damp or cat wee you smelt in the utility room.

Indianamolewoman that's a HDR photo, commonly used a lot by inexperienced photographers who don't know that you can apply minimal amounts of HDR rather than going really over the top with it.

@IndianaMoleWoman it's the magical powers of photoshop you can see in some pics that it's been badly done, inconsistent, and they have made some pics extra vibrant

The photos on our house advert were so bad we retook them with a camera phone and they look so much better.

I can't look at houses without a floor plan it confuses me. One of the houses we are looking at the picture of the kitchen and utility room are at toddler height so you can see the bottom of the boiler no idea why

Ah so glad it's not just me
I want pics of all bedrooms not just the master. And the garden, why do the agents never put a decent garden photo on, some not at all!!
Outrageous!!

My childhood home came up for sale recently, the estate agents had the audacity not to photograph every single room (left out my old bedroom) but they then went on to sell it immediately so I did not have the chance to pretend I was a buyer and arrange a snooping viewing. Shouldn't be allowed

Oh thank god someone else thinks the same as me. DH threatened to leave me after spending a week listening to me complain that the two houses for sale near us hadn't gone on rightmove yet. IT WAS INFURIATING!

I just had to know if the cow woman across the way had got a better kitchen than us and how she was spinning the fact that the windows were single glazed and the roof was missing tiles ('character' apparently).

YANBU! It's just so rude! I want to know the price, the layout, how it's decorated, if it's better than mine etc etc.

And yes to any property not having a floorplan or photos of every room including garden should be banned. There is a new development near me and I want to look. They are still being built so no photos but there aren't even any floorplans! Why would someone buy a house with no floorplan or even artist impression photographs!?

I'm in love with this thread.

Shall we start a Change.org petition?

Legal requirements to:

• put houses on Rightmove at the same time as putting the 'for sale' sign outside
• display photos of ALL rooms
• automatic prison sentence for any estate agent who doesn't include a floor plan
• as above but for those fucking wide angle lens photos

One in our old street was sold when the board went up! What is the point of that? By the time it went on RightMove it had a sold sign up. The couple who live there are snobs and I wanted to see what their taste is like - it is awful.

I would knock on the door if I actually was a potential buyer but I can't to just nose around.

I (may) have sold our house (stc) without it going on Rightmove. Should I ask the agent to put it on retrospectively, to avoid breeches of neighbour snooping etiquette? 😂

That is powerfully bad photoshop.

Sorry. Addressed to IndianaMoleWoman

I'm glad it's not just me who thinks someone went bananas with the photoshop. Surely if it were your house you would insist on fresh photos, or at least make them dial them down a bit?

Where my mum lives when a property goes on the market it sold almost instantly. The market is so hungry there and most of the estate agents in the area have large contact lists of people who want to buy in that neighbourhood. Its hard to be nosy because they are sometimes off the market before they have even gone on. Its a dam shame because I like a good nosy.

I also think it should be illegal for them to not put the floor plan on rightmove

This 100%

Agreed. I am a massive floorplan geek.

There's a special place in hell for people who don't have floor plans on their listings. It's all well and good showing me the master bedroom and walk-in wardrobe, but how can I picture what my hypothetical furniture would look like in there if I don't know where the sockets and windows are?! How can I enjoy my hypothetical house purchase without knowing how far away the toilet is from the master bedroom?!

The picture that IndianaMoleWoman linked to remind me of some ones with dreadfully photoshopped clouds and blue sky.
The sky was identical in two pictures from different ends of the garden.

One person tried to tell me that if you went from one end of the garden to the other you would see the same cloud from different sides.