Estate agent FALSE advertising!

phill99

A houses' location always depends on whether you are buying or selling.

googler

Jacksmith wrote: »

Another question would be how could an estate agent possibly adertise a property as being in an area it is not in. Are there not regulations to stop this?

Boundaries change.

I regularly see instances where my locale is described as being in the county appropriate to the old boundary, as well as those describing it as in the new.


Depending on which websites/portals the property is advertised, the EA may pick an address, and the software within the portal/website fills in the area for them. It may have been done automatically, outwith the EA's control.

seven-day-weekend

datlex wrote: »

Parts of the area I live in (Apples) come under the parish boundary of a neighbouring area (Pears).

The area I live in is known as A. The wider church parish and council ward is B. A few say my house is in C.

B is the poshest, so I say I live there, although to clarify I say it is in the A part of the ward/parish.

No way is it C. That's where the chavs live.

G_M

I have a postcode falling within one (postal) town's area.
I pay council tax to a diifferent town council.
My telephone prefix is for a 3rd town's telephone exchange.
Traditionally (if not still in reality - I'm not sure?) my village falls within a different county.


But when I viewed the house I liked the house, liked the area so bought it.

00ec25

my village does not exist according to the Royal Mail since they go by the postal town wherein lies the sorting office which defines the postal routing.

There is not a resident or EA covering the 10,000 + population "here" who would not refer to themselves as being in X village not A town as X village is in the Domesday Book and still exists.
X village adds £ thousands to the price (and rightly so as we are a chocolate box village, not a pokey town)

walwyn1978

G_M wrote: »

I have a postcode falling within one (postal) town's area.
I pay council tax to a diifferent town council.
My telephone prefix is for a 3rd town's telephone exchange.
Traditionally (if not still in reality - I'm not sure?) my village falls within a different county.


But when I viewed the house I liked the house, liked the area so bought it.

Similar here. Nearest big city postcode, that city is in West Yorkshire. Classified as North Yorkshire, that's what's on the full address. Pay tax to Selby Council, who we're nowhere near.

But your final line is the most important - if you like the area and the house it doesn't matter what your postcode is, if overall taking everything into account, you bid.

pinklady21

I live out in the country, near a village, but my postal district is the next largeish town, whereas my council area is different from the county named on my postal address, the postcode is for a city 15 miles away that is in a county of its own and nothing to do with either my local village, local town or the council I pay my taxes to! The landline telephone dialling code is for a different town altogether several miles away from everywhere else described above.
Fortunately the postman knows where we live!
So, if I were to say where I live, it could be one of several places, but I tend to plump for the largish town that appears on the postal address, as that one has the most local kudos.
Reality of o/p - how much does it matter? The house is worth what it is worth to you.

Smodlet

I will see all the above posts and raise this: I was born in a certain county. Before I was old enough to vote and without moving an inch, I lived in a different county due to whatever BS electoral boundary shifting was going on. I don't understand it to this day but do remember all the grown ups moaning about the increase in rates.

00ec25

Smodlet wrote: »

I will see all the above posts and raise this: I was born in a certain county. Before I was old enough to vote and without moving an inch, I lived in a different county due to whatever BS electoral boundary shifting was going on. I don't understand it to this day but do remember all the grown ups moaning about the increase in rates.

argh, but gerrymandering is a totally different topic

Davesnave

We live in a hamlet with a name, but in 2012 we were told not to include the hamlet's name again. This was because (after 24 years) someone noticed we had the same address as another house down the lane. Our house was actually here 15 years before the other one, but that cut no ice.


So, uniquely, our address uses the name of the village half a mile away and everyone else in the postcode uses the hamlet name.


I don't mind, because the people in this hamlet have a reputation for being odd, perverted, and/or argumentative, although most of those responsible for the poor image have now long moved-on, or died.