How Important Is A Floorplan When Selling?

Principia_2

DRP wrote: »

Yes exactly - in the past I've mentally blacklisted EAs with poor ads and not used them.

So in fact, the floorplan is more important to the EA than the vendor...

Yes except for me there is the fact that I am viewing a house in a less positive frame of mind than I could have had...whether this affects my overall feelings about the house, hard to say. However, this feeling made me feel a floorplan was important when I put my own house on the market - I didn't want people to feel niggled about the floorplan and perhaps confuse that feeling as niggled about the house

It definitely affected my feelings for the estate agent and possibly lost them a sale although in the end we went with an internet EA so I can't say for sure.

egoode

I've chosen not to view places because they didn't have a floor plan before.

I was looking in London for a flat in a Victorian property so as they have been converted from homes before the layouts can vary quite a lot. My specific requirement was to have an open plan kitchen and lounge room and needed to see the floor plans to see how easy it would be to create that if it didn't already exist.

I would discount any places that had the kitchen at the opposite end of the flat from the lounge room as I don't have experience of renovating so was more looking for something where it would involve taking a wall down between the rooms rather than moving a room and relocating water and gas connections.

Basically for me if there was no floor plan and the picture of the kitchen showed it was not open plan it immediately was rejected.

patricia..xx

If there are pictures of every room it matters less to me. If it clearly needs work or the rooms are measuring up tiny, it matters more.

I would still see somewhere without one, but there are plenty of places I wouldn't have bothered viewing if I had seen the layout first. So saves everyone's time if you just get one done.

The other thing that annoys me about terraces in particular is there is often no clear description of how to get into the back garden. As I have to take my bike through every day whether it goes through the house, down a side passage or down a snicket 10 doors down across the back of the gardens is really important to me. And anyone who ever wants to do any gardening I presume

FelinePrincess

As a buyer the floor plan is very important to me. As I'm on a fairly low budget I'm looking at fairly small houses so a decent layout is essential.

Also I like to be able to see at a glance if they have an upstairs bathroom without having to read through the details. I'm not interested in anything without an upstairs bathroom so a floor plan enables me to decide pretty quick if I'm not interested.

1981trouble

I think it depends on the property and how common and stereotypical the layout is, also on the information given (if it is a 2up2down and mentions the bathroom is upstairs for instance).

I wouldn't be that bothered about a floor plan for standard properties like 2up 2downs and the 1920's semis with bay windows but any others and particularly new builds I find them very useful.

We have recently sold ours and insisted on a floor plan because we have an unusual upstairs layout which was a selling point.

Although, if the layout is a negative then probably something to avoid. We viewed a house with no floorplan. It was a 3 bed, the stairs opened directly into one of the 2 bedrooms on the 1st floor, you also had to walk through this bedroom to get to the bathroom. In order to get to the attic room, you had to walk through the other 1st floor bedroom to get to the stairs. So to get to the master bedroom, you had to walk through both of the kids rooms. I can see why there was no floorplan because we would never have even looked if there was!

steve2005

Thanks for the replies everyone - I'll get onto my EA in the morning.
They've only had the keys for 3 days so probably not had a chance to go round and do one even if they were planning to.

Tykva

very important