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A funny (strange) Rightmove thing.

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Whitefire · 12/03/2022 23:46

I know people have talked of properties being on RM but not actually being available, well today I picked up a very strange thing.

Last May time we marketed MIL's house and completed the sale in November. (It was a probate sale) I have just looked on RM, and it is there with the listed date as the date it was sold with the SSTC banner. I don't understand what is happening.

Is this a common occurrence or is it just some random, fat fingered error?

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Kite22 · 12/03/2022 23:56

About 80% or more of some EA listing have 'Sold' written across them.
I tend to presume they haven't got much "stock" on their books and don't want to display an empty "window" - or in this case website.

40Jem · 13/03/2022 12:40

I think it's just down to the estate agents not being good at updating the details properly. Our house sold last year but the agent just marked it as no longer available on Rightmove rather than sold. I've no idea why. Bit annoying really as I had other agents pester me for a while asking to sell my house for me as they thought we had withdrawn it from sale rather than actually sold it.

Savvysix1984 · 13/03/2022 16:03

I think it's just done as free advertising for the agent and increasing their presence online.

Libertybear80 · 13/03/2022 16:08

You can look at sold houses too on Rightmove. When you want to buy you filter those out. What's not to understand?

Runkle · 13/03/2022 16:13

There's also a huge delay with the land registry being updated so this may be having an affect on it..

PhilInt · 13/03/2022 16:35

Hi OP

Do you mean that they've put the listed date as the date when the sale went through (November) rather than when the property was actually first listed (May)?

mumda · 13/03/2022 16:39

Estate agents get picked by being good at selling.
Actually removing listings as soon as the sale has completed would be good practice but round here they have kept them on.
They keep them on to show they've sold houses.
I watch my local postcode plus 1/4 mile and this is the lowest level of stock since I started paying attention in 2003.

They have so little coming on to the market you can basically ask any silly price and get it quickly.
Mortgage lending I assume is again out of control.

Remember the housing market blip when we discovered too many poorly judged loans on over-expensive houses?
Well we might be coming into a huge long recession and that'll impact on the ability to pay mortgages.
Will that affect house prices?

Starseeking · 13/03/2022 16:46

Very common occurrence. They keep them on there to show they can sell houses.

A couple of EA's near me take a long time to even mark a property as SSTC. When I was buying a place last year, it took them 2 months to do so. The reason they gave us that they were waiting for my mortgage to be approved, however the reality is that they were using the house listing as bait to draw in new potential clients ("that one's gone, but here's another").

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Whitefire · 13/03/2022 16:49

@PhilInt

Hi OP

Do you mean that they've put the listed date as the date when the sale went through (November) rather than when the property was actually first listed (May)?

Yes that's it. It is still on the active selling pages.

Would make sense to show a presence I guess, just seems a bit of false advertising. Makes it look like they have sold a house recently when it actually was months earlier.

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ShrigleyForty · 13/03/2022 20:45

I don't understand, is it in your saved properties?

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Whitefire · 13/03/2022 20:59

@ShrigleyForty

I don't understand, is it in your saved properties?

Nope, if I put in the postcode it brings up two properties, MIL's house and one over the road that has recently gone on the market. Hers says SSTC with a listed date as the day we completed.

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MarineBlue33 · 13/03/2022 21:05

You just need to tell the EA to take it down from the Rightmove portal if you are bothered by it.

DobbyTheHouseElk · 13/03/2022 21:06

Not a new thing. I’m a LL and the LA wanted me to drop the price of my rental. So they marketed a rental 2 doors down from me. It wasn’t ever available, only ever Let By. Then they rang to tell me I was overcharging.

I wasn’t overcharging at all. This so called rental down the road wasn’t actually for rent.how they got away with it I don’t know. But it cemented my opinion of the LA and I left them shortly afterwards. Dodgy practices.

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Whitefire · 13/03/2022 21:11

I'm not overly bothered, but I do think if this is a common practice it can lead to a false impression of the market.

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FizzyTango · 13/03/2022 21:32

@Whitefire
This happened to me! When we bought our house, the date the purchase when through it got re-listed on Rightmove. Basically because the estate agents had no other stock.
I was really cross because I didn’t want people thinking the house was potentially still for sale (especially because it was quite desirable), I rang them to enquire about ‘the house’ and they told me a bunch of lies. I told them I was the new owner of the house and they hung up on me but the house disappeared from Rightmove pretty much immediately…very shady. It’s actually a shame because up until then I had a really good impression from them.

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