Post-sale home privacy checklist

Before you change anything

1. Search the address on Zillow, Redfin, Realtor.com, Trulia, and the listing brokerage site. Open a private window so you see the public page, not your owner view.
2. Save the URL and a screenshot of the photo count, the sold price, and any floor plan. You will use this to check whether a request actually changed the page.
3. Write down which items you want gone: interior photos, the primary photo, the floor plan, the remarks, the price history, or all of them. Sites handle those as separate items.

Set a realistic target. County sale records stay public. Beds, baths, and tax figures usually stay on the portals. The achievable win for most owners is the photo gallery, the floor plan, and the marketing description. A photo hide does not clear the sold price. Read how sold price requests differ from hiding photos.

Ask the listing side about the MLS

Only the brokerage that listed the home can change the MLS. Email the agent or their broker and ask whether that MLS allows photo suppression on a closed listing. If they can suppress photos in the feed, the portals have less to republish. If the MLS keeps sold photos for comps, you still can hide copies on each website. You cannot log into the MLS and delete them yourself.

Clear each major site

• Zillow. Claim the home, open Edit Facts, and hide or delete the photos. If the control is missing, file a help request. Check Trulia afterward, because it often receives the same photos.
• Redfin. On a computer, open My Homes, Edit Photos, and choose Hide listing photos. The mobile app does not offer that control. Ask support to remove a floor plan if it remains.
• Realtor.com. Claim the home at realtor.com/myhome. Use Remove Photos if it is there. If edits are blocked, contact customer care with the URL and proof of ownership.
• Brokerage and team sites. Search the address with the brokerage name. Those pages are copies, not the MLS. Use the site contact form and include the page URL.

For each site, note the date you asked and what you asked for. Recheck the public URL a week later against your screenshots. A hide on one site is not a hide on the others.

Exterior photos and later checks

• Google Street View often replaces the listing photo once the gallery is hidden. Blurring that image is a Google request, separate from Zillow, Redfin, and Realtor.com.
• There is no monitoring product in this checklist. Put a reminder on your calendar to search the address again in a month. A portal can restore photos from the MLS feed.
• If a page comes back, reply to the original ticket with a new screenshot instead of starting over with no history.

If you would rather send one authorized request than work each dashboard, compare the time with doing it yourself versus hiring HideMyHome. The service is a single payment for a removal request. It does not add a subscription or someone watching the listings for you.