{"id":1022426,"date":"2018-12-21T09:00:28","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T09:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.buyassociation.co.uk\/?p=1022426"},"modified":"2023-02-06T16:25:59","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T16:25:59","slug":"property-portal-date-stamping-sending-mixed-messages-to-buyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2018\/12\/21\/property-portal-date-stamping-sending-mixed-messages-to-buyers\/","title":{"rendered":"Property portal date-stamping sending mixed messages to buyers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Property portals are the house hunter\u2019s go-to tool and the fact that listed properties are date-stamped as soon as they go \u2018live\u2019 online can suggest that there could be a minus or negative linked to the property.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Once a property is uploaded on a property portal it is date-stamped immediately and the clock starts ticking. For example, Rightmove<\/em> lists a property as \u2018added\u2019 from day one, although in reality the property may not be ready to be actively marketed, or perhaps a low key start has been agreed between agent and vendor.<\/p>\n

Online date-stamping a seller\u2019s blight<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The reality is that the more time that passes, the more questions the prospective purchasers will have about why a property is still on the market.\u00a0 This has a negative impact on the seller\u2019s position because the more aware potential buyers are of the length of time the property has been for sale, the greater chance there is that they will seek to do \u2018a deal\u2019 and expect a significant reduction on the listed price.<\/p>\n

Hidden stock means missed buying opportunities<\/h4>\n

Agents and sellers are reacting to this by choosing to delay bringing properties to the market, which is creating a problem of reduced stock in a market where there is already a supply and demand issue.<\/p>\n

In reality, property hunters are more likely to be seeing only 60-70% of properties available to buy in real terms. It\u2019s a direct result of the negative impression \u2018date stamping\u2019 has on online properties.<\/p>\n

Rightmove <\/em>has created a policy, where in order to \u2018relaunch\u2019 a property, it can remove it from their website after 14 weeks, then relist it with an updated new date stamp.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Richard Trimbee, Director at Coast & Counties <\/em>said: \u201cThese days the savvy buyer can access a vast amount of financial information online, date-stamping potentially gives buyers an advantage.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a scenario, if a property goes under offer and then the sale breaks down for whatever reason and is reintroduced to the market, the property portal quotes the original listing date; so the date stamp will continue from the original date launch.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr Trimbee comments: \u201cWe have seen an increasing number of vendors instructing their agents to hold off online marketing in preference to a quiet campaign and increased use of in house databases, precisely to ward against a stigma of a date stamped property.\u00a0 This inevitably makes market data on the volume of current properties for sale less reliable.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf this trend in reducing the online visibility of properties for sale continues, in reality it means buyers are only viewing a reduced number of available properties.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Estate agents may consider that 2019 is the year when they go back to basics, reclaim the High Street and try to entice prospective buyers and sellers to walk in rather than click away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Property portals are the house hunter\u2019s go-to tool and the fact that listed properties are date-stamped as soon as they go \u2018live\u2019 online can suggest that there could be a minus or negative linked to the property. Once a property is uploaded on a property portal it is date-stamped immediately and the clock starts ticking.… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":22233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,6],"tags":[341,358,54],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6092463,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022426\/revisions\/6092463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}