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Estate agent falsely advertising

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  • AdrianC
    AdrianC Posts: 42,189 Forumite
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    A certain estate agent keeps labelling dining rooms as bedrooms. They're traditional 1930s 3 bed semis so when you see 4 beds you assume the loft has been done. No they've just decided the dining room is now bedroom. 
    Perhaps if buyers stopped having this bizarre viewpoint that the only measurement that matters is a count of "bedrooms"...

    How big is your house?
    "Three bed."
    No, how big is it? Floor area...?
    "Umm... No idea."
  • Norman_Castle
    Norman_Castle Posts: 11,871 Forumite
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    I’ve viewed it , it was marketed and sold as 2 bed 2 years ago , seems they can do what they like 
     Was the agent wrong two years ago?

  • davidmcn
    davidmcn Posts: 23,596 Forumite
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    Not sure why (especially in the current climate) somebody would be bothering with a viewing if they don't even know what size the rooms are.
  • You might as well complain that they have called the lounge the dining room, and called the dining room the lounge.

    The house has rooms.  They are what they are.  You use them as you see fit.
  • MaryNB
    MaryNB Posts: 2,319 Forumite
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    What is size of this walk in closet?  To be legal for just an under 10 child it must be 4.6 to 6.4 sq metres.

    'sfunny how many estate agents seem to be unaware of the law 
    I saw a "2-bed" flat advertised in my area last year where the "second bedroom" was less than 4 m2.  Anybody looking at it could see it was at best a large cupboard. Unless they found a buyer with terrible sense of space all they were doing was wasting people's time. Anybody with "2 bedrooms" in their search criteria would dismiss it very quickly. Anybody looking for a 1-bed wouldn't buy it because it was priced as a 2-bed.
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