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

Dg1980

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?

markin

What size is it?

Dg1980

The room is 3.23m x 2.64m

Dg1980

And the overall size of the house is 95.9 sqaure mtrs (detached)

Doozergirl

They can call a room whatever they want to.

If it's built to plan, it's built to plan.

Dg1980

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

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

Just out of interest, is the office/bedroom 3 on the ground floor or first floor?

elsien

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.

Davesnave

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

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.