Purplebricks has taken down a listing for a house for sales in Kent after mistakenly listing it for £450 million.

The property listing, which is a shabby five-bedroom mid-terraced property in the centre of Folkestone, has now disappeared from the Purplebricks website and Rightmove.

Rather than being picked up by Purplebricks, the erroneous price tag for the property was highlighted by a journalist at The Independent newspaper via her Twitter account after which her tweet has been shared and distributed across the internet.

Although the error is not unusual on listings, and hundreds of properties are listed for ‘£0’ all over many portals, the Folkestone property capture the imagination of a younger house-buying demographic who feel priced out of the housing market at the moment.

Conversion

Believed to have been priced originally at £450,000, Purplebricks Canterbury listed the property as full of ‘potential for conversion and extending’

But Purplebricks did attract some flack for the typo, with one Twitter user, Roisin, saying: “I would feel sorry for the estate agent who did such a howler of a typo but… they’re an estate agent.”

Tom Greenacre (pictured) Purplebricks’ managing director, told Metro.co.uk: “The property price previously given was input in error.

“As soon as we became aware of this mistake we removed the listing immediately.

We are liaising with the vendor to ensure that if the property is relisted it has the correct information.”

But some agencies use their listings to deliberately ‘go viral’ rather than by mistake – one East Midlands agency recently received 1.4 million views for a property it listed via TikTok in December last year.