Alg Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Does anyone else find it annoying when estate agents have a Sold sign outside a property for 6 months plus. I have reached out to Acorm to have it removed, no luck. Clearly they have an agreement with the owner to leave it up there as advertising. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/27658-estate-agent-sold-signs/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
NessD Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 We took ours down after a month ourselves and dropped it off outside the estate agents door one evening. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/27658-estate-agent-sold-signs/#findComment-604492 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 pinocchio, there's no such agreement, they just don't bother taking the signs down.The new owner usually ends up doing it themselves. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/27658-estate-agent-sold-signs/#findComment-604494 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianr Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Description 3A. An advertisement relating to the sale or letting, for residential, agricultural, industrial or commercial use or for development for such use, of the land or premises on which it is displayed.Conditions and Limitations 3A. ?(1) Not more than one advertisement, consisting of a single board or two joined boards, is permitted; and where more than one advertisement is displayed, the first to be displayed shall be taken to be the one permitted.(2) No advertisement may be displayed indicating that land or premises have been sold or let, other than by the addition to an existing advertisement of a statement that a sale or letting has been agreed, or that the land or premises have been sold or let, subject to contract.(3) The advertisement shall be removed within 14 days after the completion of a sale or the grant of a tenancy.(4) No advertisement may exceed in area?(a)where the advertisement relates to residential use or development,0.5 square metre or, in the case of two joined boards, 0.6 square metre in aggregate;(b)where the advertisement relates to any other use or development, 2 square metres or, in the case of two joined boards, 2.3 square metres in aggregate.(5) Where the advertisement is displayed on a building, the maximum projection permitted from the face of the building is 1 metre.(6) Illumination is not permitted.(7) No character or symbol on the advertisement may be more than 0.75 metre in height, or 0.3 metre in an area of special control.(8) No part of the advertisement may be higher above ground level than4.6 metres, or 3.6 metres in an area of special control or, in the case of a sale or letting of part only of a building, the lowest level of that part of the building on which display is reasonably practicable. -- The Town and Country Planning (Control of Advertisements) (England) Regulations 2007, Schedule 3 http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/783/schedule/3/made Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/27658-estate-agent-sold-signs/#findComment-604495 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dennis Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Why rush !It's a free advertising space in your garden. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/27658-estate-agent-sold-signs/#findComment-604502 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sedm Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 I've had the same experience with Winkworth, despite asking them numerous times... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/27658-estate-agent-sold-signs/#findComment-604503 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lowlander Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 NessD Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> We took ours down after a month ourselves and> dropped it off outside the estate agents door one> evening.Wish I had done that! In the past I've just taken it down myself after a week if it hasn't been removed and binned it.From memory most agents seem to take them back themselves. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/27658-estate-agent-sold-signs/#findComment-604504 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kford Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 They're actually illegal, but tolerated. That's why they put them up at dawn. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/27658-estate-agent-sold-signs/#findComment-604515 Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Barber Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 I removed the one outside our house the day I moved in. They shout 'burgle me'.The first siz months of moving somewhere you're at significantly more risk of being burgled. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/27658-estate-agent-sold-signs/#findComment-604519 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lane lover Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 I contacted Pickwick Estates many times to remove my sign, and they completely ignored me. I was not surprised, as their general attitude throughout the sale process could not have been worse..In the end, I simply put it through the rubbish / recycling. Such a waste!I agree with James Barber's comments above - get rid of it ASAP as it increases your risk of being robbed! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/27658-estate-agent-sold-signs/#findComment-604535 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dopamine1979 Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 James Barber Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> I removed the one outside our house the day I> moved in. They shout 'burgle me'.> The first siz months of moving somewhere you're at> significantly more risk of being burgled.Why? Wouldn't you have less stuff to pinch? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/27658-estate-agent-sold-signs/#findComment-604546 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dumpertruck Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Ditto James Barber and lane lover's comments. I removed the sign outside my gaff and dumped it in KFH's office. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/27658-estate-agent-sold-signs/#findComment-604547 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LauraW Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 I used to live in a block of flats in Deptford that every estate agents in the area used as free advertising space. Signs had been up for years - attached with nails that had rusted! I took them all down and used the wood etc for diy projects. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/27658-estate-agent-sold-signs/#findComment-604589 Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Barber Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Hi Dopamine1979,When you move in neighbours don't know you so don't keep an eye out for you and your stuff. You're not as aware of an area and you don't have drilled habits of locking doors and windows.Best things people do when moving in is invite neighbours round for a pleasant drink. The quicker you know your neighbours the safer usually you'll be. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/27658-estate-agent-sold-signs/#findComment-604590 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LauraW Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Thanks for this, Ian. Useful! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/27658-estate-agent-sold-signs/#findComment-604591 Share on other sites More sharing options...
aceface Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Sometimes you'll find somewhere on the board small print advertising for the sign company which produces the board and erects the sign. Xpress Signs are the most local to East Dulwich and provide the service to most agents locally. Ring them direct, they'll put it on their job run, providing they work for that particular agent, and get paid to remove them with or without the agents permission! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/27658-estate-agent-sold-signs/#findComment-604680 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bugsbgone Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Tip of the week aceface! Tip of the week... It's payback time kids! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/27658-estate-agent-sold-signs/#findComment-604704 Share on other sites More sharing options...
giggirl Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 Why not print up some advertisements of your own for, I dunno, a bake sale or something, and run down Lordship Lane fly posting them on all the estate agents' windows. Turn the tables so to speak. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/27658-estate-agent-sold-signs/#findComment-604757 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Convex Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 our movers got rid of ours the second we moved in. i think the guy found them so annoying he couldn't help himself. he was kicking it off its post when we arrived. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/27658-estate-agent-sold-signs/#findComment-604779 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrandNewGuy Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 Ours is still in the cellar - 17 years after we moved in... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/27658-estate-agent-sold-signs/#findComment-604782 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fl0wer Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 Can the articulate customer discourage a house agent from installing those non-biodegradable signboards at all? Waste's reached unacceptable levels. Sheets of bilious looking advertising plastic lurk behind every wall, garage and front garden shrub. The wooden posts are a recyclable item. Uses limited only to our imagination. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/27658-estate-agent-sold-signs/#findComment-604826 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salsaboy Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 You could use the wooden post to make a stake to drive through the heart of those blood-sucking estate agents. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/27658-estate-agent-sold-signs/#findComment-604848 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex K Posted January 6, 2013 Share Posted January 6, 2013 Two experiences -- a telephone call to HAART and to what has now become ONEMOVE, about ten years apart -- the day after the telephone call, in both instances, the signs were gone. Surprised to learn that other estate agents are less obliging. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/27658-estate-agent-sold-signs/#findComment-604938 Share on other sites More sharing options...
grecian girl Posted January 6, 2013 Share Posted January 6, 2013 We used ours as a snow sledge which lots of other people seemed to be doing on the Brockwell/Horniman slopes.. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/27658-estate-agent-sold-signs/#findComment-605010 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dame Dulwich Posted January 6, 2013 Share Posted January 6, 2013 NessD Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> We took ours down after a month ourselves and> dropped it off outside the estate agents door one> evening.Well done NessD! The house next to ours has had their 'Let By...' sign up for about 6 months now and I find it really irritating! Might follow you lead! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/27658-estate-agent-sold-signs/#findComment-605107 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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