DAFT.ie reset property listings?

Ratzo Rizzo

It looks like the website daft.ie has reset all the property listings as properties that have been on the site for years are now showing as having been listed in the last few days. Why would they do this?

Balmed Out

not in my area but i have seen it in my area before. Not sure if some sort of systm glitch are hopefull agents thinking we will all easily forget what properties have been sitting there for the last 3 years.

odds_on

If you select the list by "Date Entered", you will get the original date.

Balmed Out

Not where I am. For a few weeks 30 or so of the peoperties on it for longest all went off over night and then all reappeared again with new date entered dates. All from different agents.

Bens

Daft have been trying to get rid of the properties that landlords just keep rolling over and over even when they are occupied. They started just cancelling the adds, but it plays havoc with their reports so they stopped.

Basically landlords leave the same add in, so they dont have to pay again when the tenant leaves early. They could leave an add up for months or even years at a time and just keep renewing. Every now and again Daft try to find a way to stop it, but to keep their credibility for the famed Daft report its very hard to now adjust the properties on the market all of a sudden. Better off keeping the existing figures for the sake of the reports.

Balmed Out

the properties I was talking about were for sale.