Any estate agents? Room sizes on Rightmove

lifeisgood

Are there any estate agents who could tell me whether it is just me being stupid? Or are you all too busy selling houses, lol.

I asked my agent if he could add the room sizes in feet and inches to the Rightmove description. He told me they have never found it necessary, as most people understood metric measurements. Nobody else has complained.

When I am searching for houses, it drives me mad to have to mentally convert every measurement so that I can visualise a room. If a house doesn't look particularly interesting on first sight, I move on to the next. I can't be alone in this.

Don't you all want to sell houses? Sorry for the rant.

mrs_deadline

Why not make yourself a ready reckoner - here's a useful site for your calculations:

http://www.convert-me.com/en/

ginvzt

I could say oposite - why some estate agents give only feet and inches? I have to spend my time trying to convert it to meters to be able to imagine the rooms!

Oh well, I just do the calculation in my head and tell it to my OH when he complains about it. Keeps the mind working!

zebulon

lifeisgood wrote: »

I asked my agent if he could add

ah but you're doing it the wrong way ... don't ask.
Request ... impose ... order!



Personally I can't do anything else than metric but I think it's a good idea to have both. :beer:

lifeisgood

Not bothered about the calculations, they are easily done in my head. Just a hassle to have to do them at all.

ginvzt and zebulon - just goes to prove that buyers must cover a wide age range, so why don't the agents cater for us all?
But my real gripe is that my agent seems to think that all buyers are his age group and think like him.

Davesnave

Despite having taught metric since the 70s, when it comes to house visualisation I automatically go into imperial mode. I suspect it's the same for most of the 'over 50s.'

Some agents do include both, certainly, probably to help old codgers like me. My own agent's default setting is imperial.

ginvzt

I suppose coming from the continent doesn't help to think to feet and inches, and miles, stones, pounds, etc... Good think I studied maths!!!

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

zebulon

ginvzt wrote: »

I suppose coming from the continent doesn't help to think to feet and inches, and miles, stones, pounds, etc... Good think I studied maths!!!

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

same here ... but to be honest after 5 years I can still not convert into anything imperial. I'm hopeless.
I just more or less know the miles equivalent for speed limits

I am REALLY confused when it comes to fill in my weight in website about dieting!

Zelie

A lot of the agents on rightmove will put both measurements up. And as can be seen by this thread some people work from one and some from the other! You can always go back and insist that the agent complies.

ginvzt

You can insist if you are selling the house, but it doesn't help when you are looking for one! We have just sold our houses and are starting to look for another one in new area (relocation). There are quite a lot of houses with jsut imperial measures. Or even better -none - just stating what rooms are i nthe house, no full brochure, nothing. You can go and try to look on EA's website, but that usually is not much more productive!

lostinrates

I taught both metric and imperial at school, mainly metric though for more advanced stuf, and once in UK. BUTsome things are feet and inches always to me. I find it hard to judge the hight of pople, the size of horses and the dimentions of a room in anything but 'old money'.

I do rough calculations though.