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

OptionARMAGEDDON

Either that or his "wifes" meat and 2 veg!

paulmapp8306

chris_m wrote: »

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

Indeed - and why Im looking for a 4 bed despite having 2 children. almost all 3 beds weve looked at, the smallest room MIGHT just get a full sized single in - with no room for anything else and little walking space.

id say most 3 beds are 2 beds + box room. not so much new builds, but certainly older houses. it seems what was a 2 bed + box rm is now a 3 bed.

asturdy2

ive seen plenty of evidence of this, even counting an unconverted garage as a fourth bedroom !

robmatic

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.

Vendors can describe rooms as they like but if it doesn't meet a buyer's requirements at the right price it won't sell.

Admittedly, we would have much more clarity if listings included the total internal floor area which gives a better handle on what you're getting for your money e.g. teeny newbuild bedrooms vs. proper bedrooms.

EchoLocation

To be honest, it's the 'discounted for a limited period only' ones that get me. Morons.

reweird wrote: »

Vendors can ask for damn well what they please and thankfully there's nothing you can do about it.

Of course they can, but they've no one to blame but themselves when they don't sell. Which as it turns out, it quite alot of them at the moment.