The listing photos of my new house are still online, complete with every room and entry point

We closed on a house two months ago. Last week a coworker searched the address because she wanted to see the neighborhood and found the old real-estate listing still live on several sites.

The photos show every room, the detached garage, the back gate and the little office where the previous owner had a desk. One image includes a wide view from the yard that makes the location of the basement entrance obvious. The furniture is not ours, but the layout is.

I knew listings stayed online. I had looked at hundreds of them while house hunting. Somehow I had filed that knowledge under “interesting floor plans” rather than “a detailed tour of the place where I now sleep.” Seeing my own address beside the photos made the difference.

My spouse thinks I am overreacting. The house is visible from the street, public records exist, and removing one gallery will not erase cached copies or data already collected elsewhere. He is right. I am not trying to make the address secret. I would simply prefer that a casual search not provide a room-by-room slideshow.

I contacted the listing agent, who said the brokerage feed had closed and third-party sites control their own copies. One site offered an ownership claim process with privacy options. Another only let me report inaccurate information. A third required an account before showing any controls. The process quickly became a scavenger hunt through settings and disclaimers.

I have started with the largest sites that appear on the first page of results. I am documenting each request and avoiding uploads that reveal more identity information than the process reasonably needs. I also changed the obvious security basics after moving, which matters more than chasing every old image.

Is there a sensible stopping point? Would you focus only on first-page results, prioritize exterior and access photos, or leave the galleries alone because removal can never be complete? I want a proportional privacy cleanup, not a new hobby built around searching my own address.