Estate agent's description is correct. But not much use.

GrahamLM52

I am pleased that estate agents are now strongly encouraged to tell the truth about properties they are selling but sometimes they really push the boundaries of what is and is not "the truth".

For example, near me there are some very nice executive properties being sold. Amongst the estate agents blurb is the fact that a train station is only 1.1 miles away.

Isn't that marvellous? Just 1.1 miles and you can hop on a train to the city. You can almost see the station from the new houses. Really, you can.

But that's only sort of true. You see, the houses are on my side of a river estuary and the railway station the agent is talking about is on the opposite side of the estuary.

If you are driving it is a round trip of a little over 12 miles. You have to drive along the south side of the estuary, cross a bridge and drive the six or so miles back towards the station.

So, technically the agent is correct, there IS a station 1.1 miles away, it's just not your closest station if you don't have a boat you can commute in.

user1977

Can't remember if it was an estate agent listing but I remember something similar where their database included stations closed in the Beeching era...

DE_612183

I think my biggest issue with estate agents is when they photo shop photographs to stretch the image so rooms look bigger than they are - some are really comical when you see TV sets that look 5feet wide and 1 foot tall!

Herzlos

I suspect it's just an automated mapping tool that highlights the crow-flies distance to the nearest landmark like train station or school. 

But you'd expect an observant local estate agent to catch that it's not a useful measurement in this case. 

singhini

Never a more honest description of properties than those written by Roy Brooks in the 1960s
His descriptions in the Sunday Times and the Observer must have sold many thousands of homes in London!

strawb_shortcake

Agree with the above, one of the areas we have been looking lists Lydney as a nearest train station, except you have the River Severn to cross.

Section62

GrahamLM52 said:

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So, technically the agent is correct, there IS a station 1.1 miles away, it's just not your closest station if you don't have a boat you can commute in.

Maybe the EA will deliver a pedalo as a moving-in gift?

mebu60

Amuses me when the sky above the property is a gorgeous blue but the sky out of the windows is a thunderous grey or dismal greyish white. 

Baldytyke88

GrahamLM52 said:

For example, near me there are some very nice executive properties being sold. Amongst the estate agents blurb is the fact that a train station is only 1.1 miles away.

So, technically the agent is correct, there IS a station 1.1 miles away, it's just not your closest station if you don't have a boat you can commute in.

A better description might have been that the house is close to 2 railway stations.

GDB2222

Roy Brooks: "Nature has fought back in the garden - and won!" 

singhini

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