House isn't listed in the sold house prices in this street - is that a cause for alarm?

[CatAndHisKit]

Just this really, have looked at all the three main sites for sold prices. Interested, so want to know what they paid previously.
I wonder how long dies it take for prices to appear, surely a year is enough...

Yes usually within a year- does it have any previous sales listed? How olds the house?

Some times I've noticed that if the details have been entered in a slightly different format or with a typo the search function doesn't pick them up.

Are you using post code or address to search?

I think houses which haven't been sold for 25+ years don't always have up to date information, is that a possibility?

When was it last sold op?

I'm pretty certain you can contact the websites and ask for your details/sales listings to be taken down.

That's the point - I don't know when was it last sold or the price, but it's been done up a few years ago to a very high standard for a modestly priced house (I assume prof builder lives there?).

I used the street name - a short street and all other houses are showing from years ago till last year (incl next door semi recently, with photos).

I've just read that if it was bought by a company as an investment it might not show - but i's def not BTL now, possibly builder's company ownership?

I mean I don't know if all houses that sold show (but safe to assume generally) but many do for a small st like this.

No I don't think it is cause for alarm. Our house isn't listed on the land registry sold prices but we are the registered owner, we bought 4 years ago. When I looked up why it was something to do with the fact we had bought considerably under market value and they don't publish the outlier values so the data are not skewed.

chris interesting! I wonder why in a short street a house would e a lot under the average price. The prices gone up hugely there is the last 15yrs but still the range is under the National average so it's not like a 100K house in a street of 1mil ones.

Ours was only approx £30k under value (due to needing 'modernisation'-also known as stuck in the 70s) , but all the other houses in the area sold for almost identical prices so even our small difference would lower the property prices in the area. If the house you're looking at has had extensive renovations it probably was bought under value.

Sorry, just realised my numbers won't help, percentages are better. £30k is about 15% here which is a considerable drop in percentage but wouldn't necessarily be considered a large amount of money for people buying expensive houses.

When we bought our most recent house what we paid for it for never showed up on the zoopla et al. I’m quite glad, we have a smart sounding address which people often google so I’m glad they can’t see what we paid for it although they can take the virtual tour thanks to the old estate agents!

Usually op it’s because it’s not been sold for twenty odd years, the fact it’s been done up doesn’t mean it was sold..

Bluntness, it was definitely sold a few years ago by the looks of reno - the current owners have renovated with solar panels and all sorts, so it wouldn't be the sanme people who lived there for 20+yrs! Other houses show there sold in 1998.

I think they bought for a quick profit after renovation, but as you say, chrisrobin possibly it was wreck under 15 precent under others and that's why not showing. I didn't know they do that not to skew though, I mean quite a few houses in the street were renovated, built in the 60s-70s so I wonder that was so low, poss roof issues or something.

byvirtue do you know whu, was it bought under a company name?

*a wreck

My last house never showed up and a subsequent sale doesn't show either. I originally believed it was something to do with the buyer's solicitor not doing Something but, clearly, that's unlikely to be the case twice.

Do you know for certain it was purchased and not inherited?

You can ask your solicitor to make sure your price doesn’t show up when you buy a property.

If a house was purchased by a company it doesn't show up on the listings but I have no idea why. I have quite a few friends who run limited company's and their houses do not appear on the listings. I want to ask why but then I would have to admit to being nosey

You can always get the title register from the gov.uk Land Registry site. It'll cost you £3 but should show when the current owners bought it or were registered as the owners - they could have inherited it.

ah right! I didn't think of inheriting, of course that would explain it.
Greek or it's a company purchase.
Well at least it's nothing sinister.

If it's bought by a company, would the coveyancing be any slower?

wowfudge is it instant? I'll do that tomoroow.

thank you all for all the info!

I was going to say inheritance or change of ownership within the family.

This happened on my friends house, the solicitor forgot to record the house sale or fill out whatever form so it didn't show. Think you can also request that the details don't show.

@CatAndHisKit - yes, instant pdf download. You have to create an account, but it only takes a couple of minutes.