One of the tips we gave you for negotiating a lower rent, was that you should find out for how long has the rental been on the market for.

But where can you find dates on ads that are on the Internet?

The agent’s website or real estate portal doesn’t usually show when the listing was first put up on the Internet but if it is with an agent, you have more options to find out. One is by checking the property search engines, who get their ads automatically from agent’s websites on the same date they are put up. They usually show when that was done, too. Write your rental’s address in:

1. Zoomf – the property search engine has date first seen on internet with each.
2. DotHomes – shows how many days ago the ad was posted.

We were wondering for how long the house Roedean Crescent was on the market for before it rented out (assuming it did). Got the answer from DotHomes, where it says the listing was posted 20 days ago. Well, that was fast then!!!

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