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Selling as a 3 bed but only planning for a 2 bed

Hello, I wonder if anyone can help me. My partner and myself are in the process of buying a new build house. The house has been built by a individual builder and is a 1 off stand alone property. The house is advertised as a 3 bed, however when we got the searches back it only had planning permission for a 2 bed. We managed to find the plans on the local government website, the layout is correct but the smallest room was classed as a office not a bedroom. Now I understand that you can be free to use this room for any use, but will this affect our ability to sell the property in the future as a 3 bed?Has it been misadvertised ? And could this affect the valuation?
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  • markin
    markin Posts: 3,860 Forumite
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    What size is it?
  • Dg1980
    Dg1980 Posts: 8 Forumite
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    The room is 3.23m x 2.64m
  • Dg1980
    Dg1980 Posts: 8 Forumite
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    And the overall size of the house is 95.9 sqaure mtrs (detached)
  • Doozergirl
    Doozergirl Posts: 34,064 Forumite
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    They can call a room whatever they want to.

    If it's built to plan, it's built to plan.
    Everything that is supposed to be in heaven is already here on earth.
  • Dg1980
    Dg1980 Posts: 8 Forumite
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    Thank you for you response, it just seems a bit strange to build it as a 2 bed with a office to get it through planning and then sell as a 3bed.
  • davidmcn
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    edited 12 August 2019 at 8:27AM
    Unless there's actually a planning condition restricting the number of bedrooms to two (which is unlikely), what they called it in the general description of the development is irrelevant for your purposes.
  • M_Python
    M_Python Posts: 176 Forumite
    Just out of interest, is the office/bedroom 3 on the ground floor or first floor?
  • elsien
    elsien Posts: 35,648 Forumite
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    If the room is too small for people to want to use it as a bedroom, then even if you call it 3 bed it will have an impact on onward sales when people get to see it.
    All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.

    Pedant alert - it's could have, not could of.
  • Davesnave
    Davesnave Posts: 34,741 Forumite
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    M_Python wrote: »
    Just out of interest, is the office/bedroom 3 on the ground floor or first floor?
    And does it have a window? Of what kind?
  • cattie
    cattie Posts: 8,841 Forumite
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    Quite a lot of houses seem to get marketed as 2 bedroom plus study. Perhaps they feel that having the 3rd room down as a study as oppossed to small 3rd bedroom will attract more professional people, man of whom tend to work at home a lot.
    The bigger the bargain, the better I feel.

    I should mention that there's only one of me, don't confuse me with others of the same name.
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