Is there a way of selling a house 'quietly'?

[BeautifulMaudOHara]

We are considering selling and don't want to put the house on the open market, mainly as we don't want nosy neighbours booking viewings, which is likely given the location and the type of house.

Is there such a thing as a quiet sale with the property not on Rightmove etc?

I sold silently, I just instructed the estate agent that I didn't want any marketing online or in the window. She phoned some of her contacts to let them know it was on the market and we accepted an offer the very same day, so something clearly worked.

Oh and I agree about negotiating the fee down, that's what I did too.

Info doesn't show up on zoopla occasionally if the land was previously unregistered.

I believe and I may be wrong, that anyone can request their purchase price details to be taken off the title information document at the land registry but the land registry can decline to grant that request.

However this government goes ahead with the sale of the land registry I am sure for a fee new private owner will do this for an additional fee of course

It must help reduce stamp duty land tax fraud as HMRC can cross check details?

I was ever so glad when our neighbours sold and all their photos were on rightmove. Gives me ideas for our house!

We requested no sign out front but it was still online. Once sold it 'disappeared' so wasn't showing as SSTC just no longer there. This was to minimise the impact on the kids with people asking why / where we were moving and them knowing we'd sold but not having found anywhere yet.

We managed it, with an agent who had buyers lined up. It sold at asking price at the first viewing. The agent even offered to pay me to let him put up a sold board. The first the nosey neighbours knew was when the removal vans rolled up.

We sold ours to someone in the next street. My childminder knew we wanted to sell - she was chatting to someone in her street who mentioned she needed a bigger house. She put us in contact and then we sold to them privately after they came and looked around.