How Important Is A Floorplan When Selling?

System

It is the most important thing for me after the pic of the front of the house. I know a lot of people are obsessed by how a house is decorated and what furniture it has in it in the pics section but TBH I really don't care. I ignore what the seller has in his/her/their house and I want to see what the general condition of the house is and what the room sizes are. The rest I can use my imagination for.

Dan-Dan

I would have viewed my current house without one, if i had wanted to view anywhere outside my home town though , without a floor plan i wouldnt have wasted the petrol

TBagpuss

Good point. I've only moving locally, so that hadn't occurred to me, but you're right, it would potentially put me off much more if viewing meant having to travel any significant distance, as it would involve a much bigger waste of time, expense and effort.

da_rule

I'm currently looking at houses. If I open a listing (on Rightmove for example) and there isn't a floor plan I go back to the search. I want to be able to imagine the layout without having to make trips to multiple houses just to discover the layout doesn't work for me.

Lionel_Thinkbag

I'd say it is pretty important. However the house we're buying now had no floorplan and only one photo. Heavily discounted though.

However i prefer simple top down floorplans well labled with room sizes. I dont like those 3d plans - i think they are misleading.

DigForVictory

When we were house hunting, an American friend sent us the local property pages - they all had floorplans & were riveting reading.
In the UK then, no such luck, but now, they're still loads of fun.

I'd say it's a definite bonus but if you have good photos or a really low price you can live without one!

As for the odd layouts - some buyers will find them charming/quirky - so even if you actually think it's mad, it's probably worth adding as a 'feature'.

cattie

Lack of a floorplan when selling or buying doesn't bother me or seem to have affected me whenever I've sold. Not many ea's in my area do floorplans.

The majority of UK houses have a pretty standard layout anyway; the average 3 bedder tends to have 2 double/average size bedroom, 1 small/box room & either 2 receptions or one large knocked through room. Some might have been extended to the rear to create a larger kitchen, but once you know the style of the house you can pretty much 2nd guess what the interior layout is going to be.

As long as room sizes are down, I don't really need to know any more. I can decide whether a house is worth me taking the time to view or not by simply looking at the room sizes.

It's only if a house is a bit quirky that I feel a floor plan might be of use, as it would probably be more difficult for the prospective viewer to try to guess the layout compared to the standard UK house.

I certainly would never just discard a house because of it's lack of a floor plan.

moneyistooshorttomention

Yes. Definitely.

I had one done when selling my last house and always appreciated when houses I was looking at had one, so I could check out what the possibilities were for changing layout and how well a house would "work".

On my last house, for instance, it would have quickly been clear that it was possible to knock down the wall between the two reception rooms if someone had wanted to and there was a bit further permutation in layout someone could make if they wanted to.

Hence, I tend to regard a lack of floor plans as meaning "what's wrong with the layout of the house they don't want me to see?".

rpc

If there wasn't a floor plan, I would wonder what the vendor was trying to hide.

Personally, I want as much info as possible up front. The layout can be almost as important as the room sizes.

If there were a long list of houses that looked interesting, lack of a floorplan might mean no viewing. If there were very few, it wouldn't make too much difference.

moneyistooshorttomention

Though, having said floorplans are necessity, there wasn't one on my current house (or even many photos) and I don't recall any other houses here having one either.

It's true they don't tend to do floorplans here and I tend to agree with this here. Back in my last area, it was variable as to whether there was one or no and it wouldn't have put me off looking, but would be my preference and I would view the house first that had one (assuming all else equal).