"Keenly priced" and other EA jargon

goldengirl28

Impossible to appreciate without a full internal inspection - doesn't look that great on the outside

[Deleted User]

'priced to sell' is a great one - ours was listed as that, meaning it's priced slightly cheaper to get rid of it. I suppose the opposite of 'priced to sell' is 'priced to put people off'?

ET1976

Yeah, we got the agent to market ours as 'priced to hang around on the market for ages'... worked a treat.

Patr100

"popular area" = houses keep going back on the market cause no one actually wants to live there for long.

"Original features" = not been upgraded since the year dot.
Or someone very old just died in it.

"character cottage" = Not only is it really pokey but it's quirky as well.

"ideal first time buyer/developer" = it's a dump with an outside toilet that doesn't work

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not_loaded

Great! Nice to see something light-hearted here!

pastmybest wrote: »

After reading this forum for a number of years it seems to me that there are too many that moan about shoddy servioce but do not take the right action against these types of companies. Too late for some that post once signed in but it more had of complained, in the past, perhaps the EAs in general would offer a better service?

Yes I have to agree! I use forums to 1) help others and 2) obtain that little bit of info I need on an unusual topic. I then crack on and sort out the problem, posting back if I discover anything useful. Concerning shoddy service, I find a lot can be achieved if you are just a tad determined, let alone ferocious about it! (who, me?)

Deleted_User wrote: »

…It doesn't matter much to us - we've heard in the past few hours that we've got 7 viewings lined up for this weekend, and the EA has apologised for putting the property on the market without us approving the particulars (and has also corrected the errors)...

I’m so glad to hear the marketing is going well despite the stuttering start. I have to say I didn’t have any trouble comprehending your thread at all. Unfortunately ‘light hearted’ doesn’t go down well with some posters when they’re in the trade and feeling the pain of the recession.

My gripe on this topic would be that the same hackneyed expressions are used for everything regardless of whether it’s true. We’ve little competition in the 4-bed market here, and some of the competition are hugely pushing their luck in the truth stakes.

“Within the catchment area for NNNNN school” when definitely not.
“Non-estate location” when clearly on an estate.
“Excellent room sizes” for the 70s and 80s rabbit hutch houses.

One of the 'hutches' had bedroom 4 at 6’6” by 5’7”. That means a bed will only go in in one direction, and when it does, it will actually jam between the walls. For the other direction, an adult could touch both walls at the same time. That’s a bedroom?

To me, this deception devalues our honest summary of our house. I wonder how many potential viewers read ours, and think: ‘yeah, yeah, we’ve heard it all before’.

not_loaded

While waiting to meet a train last night, I looked in an EA’s window and saw a house priced at £325,000 to £350,000. I’ve never seen a bracket of pricing before in an advert.

Would anyone offer at the top end of the bracket? :doh:

Colincbayley

not_loaded wrote: »

While waiting to meet a train last night, I looked in an EA’s window and saw a house priced at £325,000 to £350,000. I’ve never seen a bracket of pricing before in an advert.

Would anyone offer at the top end of the bracket? :doh:

I've seen this quite a lot with an agent near me. I reackon it is so that the potential purchaser looks at the lower end of the figure ( they also use the lower end as the price on rightmove ) and the vendor looks at the higher end.

As a buyer, I would ignore the price anyway and offer what I thought it was worth. My normal opening is to go into an agent, say yep I'll have that one I viewed yesterday and want to make a cash offer. Great they say, how much, then slap a pound coin on the table!! :rotfl:( it's never worked yet, but I live in hope!!!!!! )