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Estate agents phrases you love to hate
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Massively overpriced too, this one on the same road and of a similar size sold for £173,000 in December 2016.
https://www.zoopla.co.uk/property-history/78-windsor-road/halesowen/b63-4bh/407210700 -
The ones they put the kiss of death on by saying "hurry this won't be available for long".
Saw another in a nearby city advertised as being "in one of the most popular areas of...." (but only if you are a drug dealer/user)!
On the positive side, I rang about a property that was described as 'in need of some modernisation'. When I went to view, the agent passed me a pair of sunglasses . On viewing the 1970s orange everything, inc bathroom, I could understand why.0 -
One phrase which absolutely guarantees I won't consider a property: "For sale by modern method of auction"0
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"Four bedrooms arranged over three floors" = 3-bedroom house. Has the ground floor footprint of a 3-bedroom house plus a tent-shaped spare bedroom squeezed into the attic, hence no storage.
"Lower ground floor flat overlooking the park" = the park overlooks the basement flat
"Benefiting from" = has
"Open aspect" = the house has a front to it
"East facing garden" = north facing garden
"South facing garden" = east facing garden0 -
Our agent got around the problem of using 'popular' by inventing a name for our area (read: estate) that no-one who is from there EVER uses self-referentially.
It's a lovely phrase ("Commonwealth Corner") designed to conjure images of cosmopolitan harmony and perchance even a cafe culture? Actually it's simply that the street names are: Canberra, Kenya, Grenada etc.!
Not complaining, it worked. But it made us chuckle!0
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