Are Estate Agents/vendors now really starting to take the mickey?

shortchanged_2

What is it these days with so many properties being advertised as a 3/4 bedroom or 4/5 bedroom etc?

I am seeing more and more houses listed as say a 4 bedroom house with what should be a dining room described as a dining room/4th bedroom. Are things really getting that desperate to try this to attempt to inflate house prices? People must really be stupid if they fall for this gimmick.

Bloody farce if you ask me.

OptionARMAGEDDON

Shysters the lot of them.

oldvicar

Whatever happened to the Box Room ?

chris_m

oldvicar wrote: »

Whatever happened to the Box Room ?

That's the 3rd/4th/5th bedroom nowadays

undetterred

shortchanged wrote: »

What is it these days with so many properties being advertised as a 3/4 bedroom or 4/5 bedroom etc?

I am seeing more and more houses listed as say a 4 bedroom house with what should be a dining room described as a dining room/4th bedroom. Are things really getting that desperate to try this to attempt to inflate house prices? People must really be stupid if they fall for this gimmick.

Bloody farce if you ask me.

ANd thats all you've got to worry about.

shortchanged_2

undetterred wrote: »

ANd thats all you've got to worry about.

Yes, it really keeps me awake at night.

Cleaver

shortchanged wrote: »

I am seeing more and more houses listed as say a 4 bedroom house with what should be a dining room described as a dining room/4th bedroom.

Could you give us a Rightmove links to four or five that you've seen where a dining room is also shown as a potential bedroom? If you can I'll arrange Hamish to ring you and sing Hapy Birthday Mr President to you in the style of Marilyn Monroe. However, I suspect that our Scottish friend will be able to leave his white dress safely tucked in the wardrobe.

vivatifosi

Cleaver wrote: »

Could you give us a Rightmove links to four or five that you've seen where a dining room is also shown as a potential bedroom? If you can I'll arrange Hamish to ring you and sing Hapy Birthday Mr President to you in the style of Marilyn Monroe. However, I suspect that our Scottish friend will be able to leave his white dress safely tucked in the wardrobe.

I'm not going to provide a RM link as it will give info about my family, but anecdotally I will tell you that my brother sold his four bedroom house and it was turned into an HMO marketed as six bedrooms. It's a big house and they have actually kept the dining room (which had too many doors off of it to turn into a bedroom) as a shared space but turned both of the other lounges into bedrooms.

Ultimately people use houses differently to the past. Most people don't sit down to dinner any more, so why not use the dining room for a different purpose? I think this is a social change, rather than something we should blame estate agents or sellers for. Since the 1980s houses have become smaller, the dining room can be used for different purposes in a way that the kitchen or bathroom cannot, so why not do something else with it? Where I am I know of people who can't get out of small houses to something bigger (can't afford the higher mortgage) so their kids sleep in conservatories, even in winter. I know of two families in that situation. Using the dining room as a bedroom (which neither can do incidentally as they have lounge-diners), seems like a much better idea.

Equally though, people aren't mugs. If they go to see a house and it isn't what's expected, they'll turn around and vote with their feet.

reweird

Vendors can ask for damn well what they please and thankfully there's nothing you can do about it. These constantly whining threads are pathetic. Grow up.

shortchanged_2

Here's a couple of examples for you cleaver; Ok some are a study/bedroom on the ground floor.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-18405327.html
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-19413000.html
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-35330249.html
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-35509397.html

And you can tell Hamish I'll give the phone call a miss thanks.

shortchanged_2

reweird wrote: »

Vendors can ask for damn well what they please and thankfully there's nothing you can do about it. These constantly whining threads are pathetic. Grow up.

Go play with your hamsters reweirdo.