There is no shortage of real estate sites and not much to distinguish them. Ultimately, they are all built to facilitate real estate transactions. One thing they have in common is that they all keep details of properties online, including listing photos, even years after they have been sold, rented or otherwise taken off the market.
How to remove photos from real estate websites?
In other words, if your home or apartment was ever for sale or rent, there could still be photos of the interior and exterior online, as well as other sensitive information like floor plans. This is all useful information for someone who wants to impersonate you, or perhaps call your home in the middle of the night.
The good news is that you can have the images removed from these sites, although it takes some work. You first have to claim ownership of a property and then file a petition to have the relevant details removed. Here’s how it works for major sites, including the MLS, Zillow, Redfin, and Realtor.
A multiple listing service, or MLS, is where companies like Zillow and Redfin get a lot of their data, so it makes sense to start there. In general, this is where real estate agents first upload information and photos of homes, and where agents get a lot of their details when they show you homes.
