Misleading property dimensions.

[Deleted User]

Hi,

My estate agents floorplan said 60ft more than the actual size of my flat thus the land registry also now states this.I presume there is nothing I can do as to misrepresentation?

Buyer beware I guess?

Thanks

Annie1960

Do you mean 60 square feet? I don't understand your point. Are you saying the floor plan produced by the EA showed the property to be 60 square feet more than it actually is?

If so, how much did the EA state, and what is the actual measurement (and how do you know the actual measurement).

Making 60 square feet on a property of 2,000 square feet would be a fairly small difference. However, if the property is only 600 square feet then 60 square feet would make more of a difference, if this makes any sense.

Caveat emptor no longer applies to EAs. They are supposed to check.

http://www.tpos.co.uk/downloads/TPOE27-3%20Code%20of%20Practice%20for%20Residential%20Estate%20Agents.pdf

see para 7.

[Deleted User]

Sorry my flat in the advert under floor dimensions says approximately 400 sq feet.

It's 352 square feet.

The reason I know this is next doors is for sale and is the same as mine.

StumpyPumpy

Deleted_User wrote: »

Sorry my flat in the advert under floor dimensions says approximately 400 sq feet.

It's 352 square feet.

The reason I know this is next doors is for sale and is the same as mine.

How do you know next door has been correctly measured?

PasturesNew

Get a tape measure out and go and measure it now.

[Deleted User]

StumpyPumpy wrote: »

How do you know next door has been correctly measured?

I have been quite friendly with the guy that has been renovating it for 3 months.

I saw his advert and called him and queried it as his actually states on purchase also 400 sq feet.

He says it has been checked 3 times.

[Deleted User]

PasturesNew wrote: »

Get a tape measure out and go and measure it now.

OK I will do it now.

G_M

I assume you visited/viewed before you bought? You saw exactly how big/small the place was and were satisfied with it (even if you did not measure)?

On the continent properties tend to be bought/sold on the basis of square metreage, whilst in the UK we tend to go on number of rooms as the primary and most significant descriptive factor (rightly or wrongly).

Even assuming the downstairs flat's description is right and yours wrong (perhaps reality is somewhere in the middle?), my own view is that you have to take responsibility for your own decisions. You saw the place, liked it, and bought it.

If the precise measurements were really important to you, you should have checked.

G_M

Deleted_User wrote: »

OK I will do it now.

Let us know HOW you measure it.

* Internal dimensions of each room?
* internal dimensions of the whole property?
* external wall dimensions of the whole property?

plus if the flat is not an exact square/rectangle, let us know how you deal with the odd shapes......

[Deleted User]

G_M wrote: »

I assume you visited/viewed before you bought? You saw exactly how big/small the place was and were satisfied with it (even if you did not measure)?

On the continent properties tend to be bought/sold on the basis of square metreage, whilst in the UK we tend to go on number of rooms as the primary and most significant descriptive factor (rightly or wrongly).

Even assuming the downstairs flat's description is right and yours wrong (perhaps reality is somewhere in the middle?), my own view is that you have to take responsibility for your own decisions. You saw the place, liked it, and bought it.

If the precise measurements were really important to you, you should have checked.

Thanks G.M. but I'm not looking for an opinion I'm looking for the law.

The issue was I stupidly discounted smaller flats without looking presuming this was 400ft thus discounting others I possibly should have viewed.

agrinnall

Deleted_User wrote: »

Thanks G.M. but I'm not looking for an opinion I'm looking for the law.

The issue was I stupidly discounted smaller flats without looking presuming this was 400ft thus discounting others I possibly should have viewed.

But without knowing how the measurement was done you have no definite figure to seek a legal opinion about (and if you need a legal opinion you'll have to pay a solicitor for one, you will not get one on here as it's against site rules). At the moment you've told us nothing to say that the property isn't 400 square feet by one of the measures that G_M has suggested - individual rooms adding up to 352 square feet could easily have an external measurement of 400 square feet.