Small Potatoes Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 Searching on Rightmove today and found this property. http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-37250954.html Is obviously a three bed but being marketed as a four bed..... They are suggesting that the dining room could be used as a fourth bedroom but that's how you access the conservatory so how does that work? Is this a new way of justifiying prices - marketing properties with as many bedrooms as you have rooms that aren't the kitchen/bathroom? This is a blatent ruse to justify asking a higher price than a three bed would command! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juvenal Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 I've seen EA's pulling this stroke round my way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ader Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 Yeah my way too. They think we're all muppets. In my opinion a bedroom isn't a bedroom unless it's at least 100 sq ft either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter_2008 Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 As long as you can fit a bed in, it's a bedroom. If you can't, you shall try to see if it can fit a baby's bed in. If it does, you are entilted to advertise it as a "children bedroom". I have seen people advertising boiler rooms as bedrooms. I just don't understand that why can't properties being advertised in sq foot or sq meter in this country. OH, yea, because that would make it a honest business. We don't want that, do we? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Piddle Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 I've seen EA's pulling this stroke round my way. You mean like this one? http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-36339659.html 3 bed is now the price of a 5 bed as they use both lounge and dining room as bedrooms Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottbeard Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 Funnily enough i looked round a house marketed as a 2 bed, but when i got there it had a genuine 3rd bedroom! What a blunder by the EA on rightmove. A week later they corrected the error. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pezo Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 It's when it's the garage with just a closed garage door that really gets my blood pressure up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bulboy Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 It's when it's the garage with just a closed garage door that really gets my blood pressure up. WEll, I got two tier beds in the children room, another bed and sofa bed in the other room, master bed in the master bedroom and another sofa bed in the lounge and I have space for another master bed (which is in the loft). that makes my propertieh 7 BED one. Do we count the master beds as 1.5 or 2? I should be quids in...going back to reality.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russe11 Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 and the magic 250k price tag Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jammo Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 Thanks for the warning. From now on I shall disregard the number of bedrooms option on any house search as irrelevent and useless information. I've already forfeit price and description as pretty much useless. Thus is the deepening bear market's character. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Small Potatoes Posted March 16, 2012 Author Share Posted March 16, 2012 You mean like this one? http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-36339659.html 3 bed is now the price of a 5 bed as they use both lounge and dining room as bedrooms I realise that I short-changed myself when I sold my last house - I should have marketed it as a 7 bed not a 4... and perhaps I could have added a few more bedrooms if I had suggested a hypothetical loft conversion and extension. And, thinking about it, I should have included the garden shed as a bedroom in line with what some landlords are doing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Democorruptcy Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 Searching on Rightmove today and found this property. http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-37250954.html Is obviously a three bed but being marketed as a four bed..... They are suggesting that the dining room could be used as a fourth bedroom but that's how you access the conservatory so how does that work? Is this a new way of justifiying prices - marketing properties with as many bedrooms as you have rooms that aren't the kitchen/bathroom? This is a blatent ruse to justify asking a higher price than a three bed would command! I think the "3/4 bedrooms" makes that OK. It's a choice, you could stick a bed in if you wanted. There was a much worse one on here where it was two beds in the same room with no dividing wall and it said "bedroom 2 incorporating bedroom 3" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cartimandua51 Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 You mean like this one? http://www.rightmove...y-36339659.html 3 bed is now the price of a 5 bed as they use both lounge and dining room as bedrooms In fairness, Cardigan road is solidly student let territory, so any would-be purchaser is almost certainly a LL.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scary Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 I think the "3/4 bedrooms" makes that OK. It's a choice, you could stick a bed in if you wanted" Yeah, in the text they mention that it's actually a three quarters bedrooms house. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@contradevian Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 You mean like this one? http://www.rightmove...y-36339659.html 3 bed is now the price of a 5 bed as they use both lounge and dining room as bedrooms Marketed as a potential HMO? Looks like one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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