Asking estate agent to remove pic of my home from neighbours listing

[DaughterOfEvening]

Just that. My house is not joined to the neighbour, quite separate. There is an aerial shot where you can even see into my child’s bedroom. Another “arty type” shot which includes most of the front of my home as well as neighbour.

Relevant background is that I had my home removed from google Streetview a few years back for a very good reason. The whole of my property is blurred out from all angles when you try to view it on google.

The estate agent was co-operative, if a little bewildered as to why I would ask for the photos to be cropped to remove a house that they were not marketing. The cropped pics would not impact on how the neighbour’s house looks.

The neighbour has just hammered on my door asking why I’m interfering with the sale of their home. My answer was that I don’t want pics of my home visible online. They may or may not be aware of my historical reasons for this.

YANBU. I have also had my house removed from google, for good reason too. I also sold a previous house without having to post a front or inside photos of my house online. My house sold in a week back then too.

It seems odd that they would get red faced and ranty (even odder if they had got red faced and randy! ) over you simply asking for your home not to be pictured and I wonder whether it's delayed something or if the estate agent has used your request as an excuse for something they've done poorly. Given you have reasons (and given they showed the inside of your house) it's not at all unreasonable of you to ask for removal. It doesn't mean it couldn't possibly be a bit of a pain for them though and if they don't understand your reasons it may make you seem obstructive to them. It's difficult to know if they won't approach things in a reasonable manner.

Yanbu. But they are for knocking your door about it

Your neighbour sounds a complete shit, OP. You've every right to privacy, and sorry you're having to go through this stress over someone else's house sale Hugs!

How is so much of your house identifying? I’m completely puzzled. We live in a cottage, they’re all v individual but I doubt anyone would know ‘we’ lived there from just a pic of the front?

Of course YANBU and of course you do not need to tell us why you want privacy.

yeah because people wouldnt be able to see your house from the road !!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't quite understand why viewing the house online is any different to walking past it in the street?

Or why haven't you got any window coverings up if you are so concerned about privacy?

I'm really confused as to why you think people would give a toss, basically?

@leavethelambsalone - Calm down love!

Outing but what the hell.

In our front garden we have a huge, almost lake sized pond. It's been here many hundreds of years and has ducks, established plants etc. It's beautiful and it's ours.

My neighbours house write up described a pond in their garden and I believe there is a tiny little 3ft thing in their back garden. The listing photos however showed my garden.

A relative called us surprised we were selling, when I told her we weren't she directed us to right move. My home and Garden were both there and the listing read as though my pond was included in their sale.

EA was miffed to say the least. He claimed he was just showing 'the vista the house enjoyed over the pond'. I pointed out he needed to rotate the house 90 degrees and fell several trees before there was any vista over my garden. Photos were removed.

Unsurprisingly we didn't get a Christmas card from the neighbour 😂

I don't quite understand why viewing the house online is any different to walking past it in the street?

I can see several ways in which these things are different. One is the type of photos that went up. The OP mentioned arial shots which generally show a lot more about a property than you can gain from the street view as you walk past. The view into one of the rooms may well have been impossible from anywhere on nearby public property. The second issue is searchability and a potential increase in voyeuristic foot traffic, etc. since the house has (it sounds like) been associated with newsworthy events in the past.

If you take a photo of my house from the street you aren't going to see anything anyone who is interested doesn't already have access to. But if you flew a drone over you would have a view of our back yoard which isn't at all visible to people on the street, or even viweing from our neighbours' windows. I wouldn't, for instance, be keen for all and sundry to know we have pool.

Also if there had been prurient interest in the past I would probably feel a bit creepy about people being able to go on line with that sort of mindset and see places that we thought were really private, more than that, there are some people who become obsessive over things that have been public interest and I would not be keen for anything to be available that might make my home subject to that sort of intrusion again.

You may not have a right to demand legally taken photos are taken down, but if they are or may cause you disadvantage or distress it isn't unreasonable to ask.

If the cheeky bunting gets you in to trouble some oversized knickers from poundland meant for elderly women stained with brown pen pegged up to dry might help (you could get festive and stain them green and red striped at Christmas and orange at halloween - what a hoot!

Someone I know bought a house. On having a nosey on Rightmove a couple of years later I noticed that photos of some of the rooms the house next door had been added to the listing.

I told Rightmove and the photos were all removed. The entire house, not just the wrong ones.

Cool. This thread has it all - secret agents, randy neighbours and bunting that says ‘bastard’ on it

This thread prompted me to have a look at my house on street view. It's not there, the whole road is not there. It certainly used to be on street view, I remember looking at the photos a couple of years ago. The two adjoining roads are viewable but our entire road is not. Why would they do that?

Corrag because you're a figment of your own imagination! Dum Dum Dum...along with spooks we have the Twilight Zone..

Ha! It seems our road doesn't exist, or soon won't exist (eek!) or our houses are far too special to be viewed by the great unwashed. I think I'll choose to believe the latter.

@Corrag that's deffo spies 😂😂😂

Update: the estate agents have removed the images showing my home. I had a message left from them apologising and saying that the images were from drone footage and as such should not have been used. I don’t pretend to understand the rules regarding drones but that’s the end of the matter as far as I’m concerned. Haven’t heard anything else from the ranty neighbours. I signed for a parcel for them today so that could be an awkward encounter when they collect it.