How Important Is A Floorplan When Selling?

steve2005

We've just put one of our properties on the market - this will be the first time of selling a property - and just wondered how important a floorplan was to most people?

Personally speaking, when you looking at a property I always like to see a floor plan so I can see how the house/flat is set out.

My EA has put all the measurements of the rooms, in metric and imperial, but I'm wondering if I should get them to do a floorplan too?

What do you guys think?

Old_Git

if you where looking to buy a house /flat and it had no floor plan would YOU view . I think floor plan is expected .The fact that the agent hasnt done one would be off concern . After you put the floor plan in post a link so we can all see and pass comments /advise /be nosy

TrickyDicky101

I would not try selling my house without a floor plan and I am much less inclined to dwell on properties listed on RightMove that don't have a floor plan. Would it put me off of viewing a property though? That's harder to answer.

comeandgo

Floor plan a must for me too.

CKhalvashi

TrickyDicky101 wrote: »

I would not try selling my house without a floor plan and I am much less inclined to dwell on properties listed on RightMove that don't have a floor plan. Would it put me off of viewing a property though? That's harder to answer.

It never put me off, however bear in mind that apart from the property we're in now, we always bought at auction/near reposession, so at discounted priced, which probably was what influenced the brain somewhat.

To sell, I wouldn't dream of not doing one.

CK

benjus

I definitely prefer to have a floor plan available when browsing for properties. However, the place we have just had an offer accepted on didn't have a floor plan - but we could tell from the photos and description that it was somewhere worth viewing.

FallenArcher

As a buyer I much prefer to see a floor plan. That said we have decided not to view houses based on the floor plan but for those without we have viewed them anyway - and once seeing the house the buyer will decide whether it's for them or not anyway.

Is there much additional cost to having one?

SerialRenter

Photo's can be misleading, which is why for getting an idea of size I much prefer floor plans with measurements shown.

Obviously Estate agents are sneaky and these can be misleading too, but it would defiantly put me off if a floor plan wasn't included.

Annisele

If there isn't a floor plan, I worry there might be a really awkward layout or a weird corridor somewhere. Room sizes don't show whether or not that's true.

Davesnave

There are places, such as parts of Wales, where floor plans are still not easily come-by. If people looking there restricted their viewing to houses with plans, they'd miss much of the available property.

You'd obviously not be at a huge disadvantage selling without a plan in these areas.

If your house has a particularly odd or inconvenient layout., it could also be a disadvantage revealing this on a plan.

ognum

No floor plan indicates to me a more naive seller, that equals a better deal!