Inaccurate floorplans?

DRP

donfanatico wrote: »

Finally, someone with sense!

I also dont understand the British obsesisons with number of rooms. I too am from Europe and we buy per SQM.

That's why people here put up a wall to make a 2 bed into a 3 bed and get more cash form this without really adding any value :eek:

ONly in good old BLighty!

totally disagree with this , i;m afraid!!

I think it is about the utility of the house, rather than the square metre-age. Victorian and Edwardian houses can have large bedrooms , allowing them to be split into rooms of comparable size to current new-builds.

Scenarios:

1. Convert a buy to let from 3 to 4 beds and you will make a lot more money. Hence the house is worth more.

2. Buying a house with split bedrooms would be worth more to a family who can't afford the step-up to a 'proper' 3 or 4 bed.

donfanatico

DRP wrote: »

totally disagree with this , i;m afraid!!

I think it is about the utility of the house, rather than the square metre-age. Victorian and Edwardian houses can have large bedrooms , allowing them to be split into rooms of comparable size to current new-builds.

Scenarios:

1. Convert a buy to let from 3 to 4 beds and you will make a lot more money. Hence the house is worth more.

2. Buying a house with split bedrooms would be worth more to a family who can't afford the step-up to a 'proper' 3 or 4 bed.

This is because people are hung up on the fact that they see a house as some kind of investment to go up some imaginary property ladder instead of making it a home.

By all means , if you need a spare bedroom make it split up but do't do it just because you want to con someone into thinking it is a bigger property than it actually is.

Dan-Dan

making a 3rd bedroom isnt necessarily about making a house BIGGER , it could just as well be a ploy (a good one) to make the property more attractive to a wider market , it would to us , we are 3 bed lookers , as we have 2 kids boy and a girl and if i looked at the house , found it met our needs and was half way between a 2 bed price and a 3 bed , and the 3rd `bedroom` fitted a kids bed.......who knows....

It`s all about widening the appeal but ALSO making your own life better whilst you live there

road68

Penelopa.Pitstop wrote: »

According to the agent's floorplan my flat was 95m2, according to ECP certificate it was 97m2 and according to surveyor it grew to 112m2. But it was still the same good sized 2 bedroom flat.

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I didn't think to check the EPC! This said 108m which makes me feel a bit better that the true square footage probably lies between the valuation and the agent.

Better_Days

I didn't think to check the EPC! This said 108m which makes me feel a bit better that the true square footage probably lies between the valuation and the agent.

Actually this is the only reason I check the EPC (unless the EA hasn't said if the heating is gas/oil/LPG/storage heaters etc). The square meterage does give a basis for a rough comparison between properties, and is one of the factors I think is worth taking into account.

moneyistooshorttomention

donfanatico wrote: »

Finally, someone with sense!

I also dont understand the British obsesisons with number of rooms. I too am from Europe and we buy per SQM.

That's why people here put up a wall to make a 2 bed into a 3 bed and get more cash form this without really adding any value :eek:

ONly in good old BLighty!

I'm British - and I don't understand the British preoccupation with number of rooms, rather than square meterage.

To me personally, it's been pretty irrelevant in my househunting as to how many rooms the places have - I've been checking out places varying from 5 rooms (including kitchen and bathroom) to twice as many rooms as that.

My concern has been - is there enough kitchen space for everything I intend to fit in? Is there enough bedroom space for my wide bed and loads of clothes? Is there enough study space? Is there enough storage space? My concerns have all been to do with amount of space pure and simple and I don't personally give a darn how many rooms it is divided up into.

I understand that people with a child or, even more so, two opposite sex children will need, respectively 1, 2 or 3 bedrooms - but it really is a space and space only consideration for some of us and I wouldn't be prepared to hand over more money because someone had done some "fancy fiddling" just in order to be able to falsely claim that a 2 bed place had 3 bedrooms or wanted to lie and call a boxroom "bedroom 3".

road68

Update (in case it helps anyone with similar issues!): we managed to get the surveyor on the phone who said his estimate wasn't neccessarily very accurate, may not have included the stairs and only took basic dimensions etc. Between this and the EPC estimate we are happy to proceed. Not sure if this is typical of all basic valuations, but certainly doesn't sound like it was a very scientific set of measurements!