Should we try renegotiate or stay quiet?

livdawsonn

Yeah I think the reality of it all coming close now has made me worry about something which isn’t make or break. 

I also do think the current people living there have used the space terribly so I’m sure it will feel much larger when we are in. Thanks all - panic over just started to overthink! 

MalMonroe

Only complete if you REALLY want to live there. This is going to be your home, you don't want to end up being miserable because I really do think this is such a small niggle.

When I bought houses in the past I never thought about measurements of rooms and space. Only whether I liked the property, did I think I could be happy there, could I see my family an myself living there? 

It does seem (as someone else has suggested) as if you are not 100% sure that you have made the right choice. If you are both of that opinion, it would be sheer folly to press ahead.

Just thinking 'oh well' and pushing doubts to the back of your mind will mean you end up in a property you don't feel happy in - and last time I did that very thing I was miserable as sin for the whole 8 years I managed to stay there. 

Better to drop out while you can than proceed when you have doubts. And you obviously do, or that 'missing' space just would not bother you. At all.

livdawsonn

MalMonroe said:

Only complete if you REALLY want to live there. This is going to be your home, you don't want to end up being miserable because I really do think this is such a small niggle.

When I bought houses in the past I never thought about measurements of rooms and space. Only whether I liked the property, did I think I could be happy there, could I see my family an myself living there? 

It does seem (as someone else has suggested) as if you are not 100% sure that you have made the right choice. If you are both of that opinion, it would be sheer folly to press ahead.

Just thinking 'oh well' and pushing doubts to the back of your mind will mean you end up in a property you don't feel happy in - and last time I did that very thing I was miserable as sin for the whole 8 years I managed to stay there. 

Better to drop out while you can than proceed when you have doubts. And you obviously do, or that 'missing' space just would not bother you. At all.

Thank you for this - When we went I didn’t have any doubts of the space itself so I think in all honestly I was just getting hung up on the fact the EA have got it wrong twice now and seeing it in figures and black and white I was frustrated more than anything. If the floor plans displayed the size it is now, would we have viewed it? Yes.  So I think that answers the question and is not worth rubbing the sellers up the wrong way so close to the end of it all.

We are only 20 and 21 so like I said to a previous poster I need to keep in mind this is not a long term family/forever home and when we actually need more space, then we can upsize when the time comes! 

The stress of this whole process has likely fuelled this panic. As you said don’t want to be in a home that makes us miserable as that’s simply a waste of time and money! As long as we are happy few extra metres in each room isn’t the end of the world 😊

movilogo

So the house was advertised as having 90 sq m space but in reality only has 60 sq m space? That is some serious misrepresentation of the size.

user1977

movilogo said:

So the house was advertised as having 90 sq m space but in reality only has 60 sq m space? That is some serious misrepresentation of the size.

But also quite a large discrepancy for a buyer not to notice.

As alluded to above, are we talking about the same method of calculation? There's the rough and ready method of taking external measurements, or measuring more "usable" space from internal measurements - the latter obviously being somewhat lower if you're not counting stairs, cupboards, walls, non-habitable rooms etc.

woodpeckerx

movilogo said:

So the house was advertised as having 90 sq m space but in reality only has 60 sq m space? That is some serious misrepresentation of the size.

That is a crazy error, I would reduce the offer by 30x the average sqm price for the same property type in the area.

In my area the average for a detached house is circa £5000 per sqm, I've seen the less savvy paying in excess of £8000 per sqm due to not checking floor area, its the first thing I look at and I take a digital measure with me when I view.

user1977

woodpeckerx said:

movilogo said:

So the house was advertised as having 90 sq m space but in reality only has 60 sq m space? That is some serious misrepresentation of the size.

That is a crazy error, I would reduce the offer by 30x the average sqm price for the same property type in the area.

That would only make sense if the original offered price was 90x the market value per square metre, surely? The market value is whatever a 60sqm property is selling for - we don't know whether that does in fact resemble the price agreed here (and the OP thought they were getting a bargain), or they had offered 50% over the market value (which seems unlikely) - or something inbetween.

lookstraightahead

Op excepted as they seem quite clued up, it is scary how many people don't see floor space as important. It makes me wonder how many people pay attention to their financial commitments. 

movilogo

This is another example of broken down Britain. It is frustrating that in Rightmove, you can't filter properties by floor space area. Converting into £/sq m helps to compare different properties and overpriced ones immediately stand out. 

RelievedSheff

lookstraightahead said:

Op excepted as they seem quite clued up, it is scary how many people don't see floor space as important. It makes me wonder how many people pay attention to their financial commitments. 

We never gave floor space a second thought when we bought either of our houses.

We viewed the houses and decided if the space we viewed would be suitable for our needs.

We viewed houses that on paper were bigger than the ones we bought but that space wasn't really useable and didn't really suit what we wanted.

We really don't see that the floor space measurement is that important. It is how the available space is utilised that is important.