WTF Zoopla?!?!

[TeddyBee]

I quite like tracking the houses on my street on zoopla - it's ten identical houses that have been extended and modified differently. I also pay attention to our house value as we need to remortgage soon. I updated the info quite recently because we did a big old extension. Anyway, neighbours did a teensy extension over their garage and gained an extra bedroom and their value shot up to forty grand more than ours (which I think is a bit high anyway) so I sent them an email pointing this out, and mentioning that our house was actually bigger anyway. This was last weekend. I go to look today and they've knocked £100k off their valuation of my house. Which is kind of irritating as they haven't changed their valuation of my neighbour's house AND lazy ass mortgage company surveyors use those same valuations when they value for remortgages. Fuckers. Is this someone's idea of a joke? Ok it's deffs not the end of the world and I'm overreacting a lot, but I've spent eighteen months in a building nightmare and they're dissing my house.

Wikipedia is crying out for you to visit and correct OP.

Are you on glue?

I seriously doubt mortgage valuers use zoopla to come up with their valuations.

Yep they're def crap. They have my next door neighbour valued at 350k when it sold 4 months ago for £430k and my house valued at £15k less than my next door neighbours who has substantially extended, including adding 2 extra bedrooms and bathrooms.

I just looked on Zoopla at my road (Victorian terraces) out of curiosity - of the ones that have changed hands in the last 10 years or so, they have the details of some other property completely (not even in the same town!) for 3 out of 4

How shit is that?

why indeed Zoopla! I just had a look at my local area, prompted by the OP - I saw a house that I viewed before eventually buying our current house, so this was end of 2012. It's taken a long time but they eventually sold it recently for 390k (on for 425k when I viewed it and definitely overpriced compared to similar properties). So why, Zoopla, is its current estimated value over £900,000? I mean really - I'm tempted to email Zoopla and ask whether a crock of gold has been found in the (rather small) garden?

Atomic - it sounds ridiculous. He did. To be fair he also failed to notice one of our bedrooms. I'm not saying he was a good surveyor.

And does anyone sniff glue these days? I thought it was all about the crack and crystal meth?

Interestingly I met the Wikipedia team last year. They're lovely and dedicated people who aren't nearly as crazed as me.

I think the dust from your building works has got to you

Is it a nice extension btw? Where did you extend? Just being nosy.

I think it's nice :) we went two stories out to the side (over the footprint of a manky garage from the seventies) and all the way across the back, although that drops to one storey about half way across. We got a utility room, downstairs loo, new bathroom, new bedroom with en suite and one of those kitchen diners that runs across the back of the house like everyone gets ;) we had a massive patio at the back of the house already which was basically unusable thanks to a hideous pond and dangerous glass lean to thing so we didn't lose and space outside and gained lots of living space. We also had to reconvert the loft after we discovered it was an uninsulated, unsupported death trap so we turned that from two tiny bedrooms into a nice master bedroom with a bathroom for us. We added about 80sqm to the house in the end and went from three single bedrooms and two double bedrooms and one bathroom to four double bedrooms, three bathrooms and a nice upstairs office. The old galley kitchen became a sort of cloakroom lobby and the old bathroom became a sort of landing library. I absolutely love it, but it was a nightmare, has financially crippled us and I found out I was having an unplanned third baby half way through. But baby and house are both lovely. Just expensive.

Sounds lovely Teddy. I wouldn't worry about Zoopla in that case, im sure any surveyor will be able to give you a truer value.

Wowser! That's not so much an extension as an entire rebuild. Sounds very nice indeed.

Plus there's no way anyone will go off Zoopla after all that, aside from the fact it's total bollocks anyway, your house is unique to your street from the sound of it. Seriously, stop worrying about it and just enjoy your house.

Zoopla is total bollocks I mean, not your gorgeous house.

Your house sounds lovely, OP.

Surveyors, eh?

I once had to pay £50 for a surveyor's visit when I was increasing my mortgage slightly. He was in the house 5 minutes and in his report said that I 'probably had damp in the floorboards'. Nope. I didn't even have floorboards, I had solid concrete floors.