Estate Agents 'Patter'

MrsJam

Take a look at the EA's description on this particular property as to who may be interested in purchasing it.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-65406734.html

To me it's a nice family home in a good location.

EA seems to think it's more suited to a young professional couple?

Are they being a bit patronising? :cool:

G_M

Haven't looked, but why does it matter?

Ignor the patter, and decide if the property suits you. If it does, make an offer.

hazyjo

Why patronising? I'm missing something...

I think they're trying to sell it as more of an executive home. tbh townhouses aren't always popular with families. Layout of this is terrible. Bed 4 on the bottom with the utility room and garage! And there's no loo on the kitchen/lounge (middle) floor.

So 'mum' would be in the kitchen and the kids in the garden? Not great on a different floor. Really not a great family home.

Personally I love townhouses (owned one previously myself), but you a family would at least want the kitchen and/or lounge/living space on the ground floor.

Jx

MrsJam

G_M wrote: »

Haven't looked, but why does it matter?

Ignor the patter, and decide if the property suits you. If it does, make an offer.

Thanks guys for the replies,

Just perusing EA speak, that's all.

It's like when they're selling a bungalow and they say, 'would suit older people'

My daughter and her partner having just bought a bungalow:)

fairy_lights

Sweet jesus those bedrooms are small.
Maybe the agents are trying to hint that it's not actually big enough for a family?

PasturesNew

The funniest one I've seen is where they described a "studio flat" as being ideal for local schools - and you wonder who they are marketing it to.

Agents always feel some burning desire to interject who it'd be ideal for - and it does often grate. Like shows on the telly, like Secret Agent or Homes Under the Hammer, always harping on about an "ideal family home". It is often very very annoying when the industry continues to "tell" people who should be living there/interested.

For the property in the link I'd not see it as a good family home - the bedrooms are small, the living room's small, the 4th bedroom tucked behind the garage (for the least favourite child?) would have limited use for a "family" wanting four bedrooms. It's better suited to a single person with a hobbies room and occasional AirBNB overnight guest in the 4th bedroom. Bedroom 3's also a bit small with today's possessions' needs. In fact it's only really got two "long term usable rooms for people with stuff and studies" More of a "squeeze the poor people into tiny rooms" than a "family home"

melstar11

It's on with Tepilo which is a lower cost alternative to high street estate agents. I believe the vendors have probably written the blurb themselves. Tepilo agents take the photos, sort out the EPC and get the place listed online.

The owners are clearly proud of the way they've furnished the place given the way everything is detailed. The references to bleach cleanable carpets just make the snob in me think they have put cheap polypropylene down instead of something really nice.

Davesnave

That house is a carbon copy the one my boss lived in. Even in a desirable part of the city, he struggled to sell it at the price he thought all the fancy stuff deserved. The layout and puny, overlooked garden put families off IMO.

harrys_dad

Well all I know is it wouldn't suit me.

Surrey_EA

As it's on with Tepilo, it's almost guaranteed that the owners have written the details themselves!

gettingtheresometime

I'm with Hazyjo - I'd have more of an issue with Bedroom 4 on the ground floor and everyone else on the 2nd floor (a modern day Harry Potter perhaps???)