How to remove house details from real estate websites?

Hi all, thanks for all the comments.

* The realestate agent’s response is that apparently the company who controls the real estate agency’s website gather and saves the information for “research” and the real estate agency has no control over what the company does. The agent suspects the information is in the public domain once it is sold.

* I’ve sent a request to allhomes. Am hoping it will come off soon.

* Joys of the internet …one person’s privacy is another’s stickybeak heaven. From what i’ve seen, wayback doesn’t seem to capture 100% of everything everyday?

It’s a waste of time. Sites like the Internet Wayback Machine take copies of this stuff, and it can be accessed later even if removed from the original site.

Once you put something on the Internet, it usually stays there.

Bluenomi said :

Or the house has never been sold before. Most houses don’t seem to have the very first time it was purchased as just a block, I’ve check a few houses I know and that first sale isn’t on any of them.

Mrs C and I bought land for our first home back in 1999 and it’s listed on allhomes. I think their land sales database starts from the mid-90s??? But maybe not all new homes are still added?

Holden Caulfield said :

Jivrashia said :

You can probably remove the listing and the pictures, but I think the price listing is in the public domain and cannot be taken down…

Here is an example of a house in Griffith that I randomly picked.
Last sold in 1998 for a price of 1/2 million.

Although, you do sometimes see houses with no past sales data, so there must be a way, which I guess would be as simple as putting in a simple request to allhomes.

Or the house has never been sold before. Most houses don’t seem to have the very first time it was purchased as just a block, I’ve check a few houses I know and that first sale isn’t on any of them.

Jivrashia said :

You can probably remove the listing and the pictures, but I think the price listing is in the public domain and cannot be taken down…

Here is an example of a house in Griffith that I randomly picked.
Last sold in 1998 for a price of 1/2 million.

Although, you do sometimes see houses with no past sales data, so there must be a way, which I guess would be as simple as putting in a simple request to allhomes.

Jivrashia said :

You can probably remove the listing and the pictures, but I think the price listing is in the public domain and cannot be taken down…

Here is an example of a house in Griffith that I randomly picked.
Last sold in 1998 for a price of 1/2 million.

Where are the photos

You can probably remove the listing and the pictures, but I think the price listing is in the public domain and cannot be taken down…

Here is an example of a house in Griffith that I randomly picked.
Last sold in 1998 for a price of 1/2 million.

dtc said :

Silentforce said :

For discerning housebreakers, Allhomes appears to be a rich catalogue containing a smorgasboard of information relating to entry points, security, escape routes, occupancy, obstacles etc. This applies during the selling period and afterwards. One may argue that anyone can attend an exhibition and discover the same information; but agents normally take viewers details and real estate sites can be viewed anonymously by the public.

If you think the average burglar plans ahead and gets information off the web and does a walkthrough and establishes escape routes and plan B and back ups, then you have been watching too many Ocean 11/12/13 films

The average burglar stumbles a few 100m and knocks on the door of a random house. If no one is home they go around the back and jemmy a window.

+1

I think Silentforce may be over estimating the average intelligence of your common burglar. Based on the break-ins that have occurred in our development they wait till you go out and then rummage through every part of the house until they find all of the stuff they want. The last one got caught in the act of trying to break-in. Seriously who’d think that 6~8pm on a week-night would be a good time to try? It’s not as if the owners are going to be arriving at home from work….

I was advised many moons ago to ask the real estate websites themselves. I asked to get ours remived. I would hazard a guess that 7 years later they are still there as I gave up. Good luck.

Silentforce said :

For discerning housebreakers, Allhomes appears to be a rich catalogue containing a smorgasboard of information relating to entry points, security, escape routes, occupancy, obstacles etc. This applies during the selling period and afterwards. One may argue that anyone can attend an exhibition and discover the same information; but agents normally take viewers details and real estate sites can be viewed anonymously by the public.

If you think the average burglar plans ahead and gets information off the web and does a walkthrough and establishes escape routes and plan B and back ups, then you have been watching too many Ocean 11/12/13 films

The average burglar stumbles a few 100m and knocks on the door of a random house. If no one is home they go around the back and jemmy a window.