The latest annoying estate agent trend

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Currently in the market to move again and I can't help but be bemused by the latest estate agents tomfoolery when it comes to photographs.

An artsy angled shot of an ornament on a side board. Focused object and blurry background - check

A picture of a colourful pot plant in an otherwise begraggled and weedy garden - check

And my favourite one, a picture showing a kitchen tap turned on, cascading down like a serene waterfall not out of place in a spa promotional. I didn't know a working water supply was a top worry for house hunters.

Also do they know showing - 10 out of 15 photos of one room, 1 of the outside, 1 of the garden and 1 of the far fetched-squint and-you'll-just-see-it-view isn't fooling anyone. It just tells us the rest of the house is a bit shit.

So what are your most favourite or even annoying quirks estate agents and house sellers insist on doing nowadays? Plus, here's a link to a wonderfully quirky but fits list of the above house we nearly viewed.

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-67408549.html

Sorry for my colicky link fail

I’ve noticed this too 😂

Stunt croissants artfully arranged on a gingham napkin. Wine glasses which appear on the dining room table, then again in the living room. Shite twee descriptions like "When Mrs H first set eyes on the bathroom she knew it would be her oasis of calm".
Fuck OFF with this tripe you bunch of utter twats.

Sorry this is also a pet hate of mine

I was miffed a few years ago when nosing at the photos of a flat up for sale just opposite from me. They had posted a view from the window. It was a picture of my house and my garden!

Very bad wide angled lens pictures, which makes the place look like every room is curved. In general, so many estate agent pictures are either terrible and look like they've been done on a phone in poor light, or wannabe artsy with many close ups of a coffee cup/cushions/a bubble bath or some such nonsense.

I just want to see what the house looks like!

That house is very very local to me. I love it but swiped past the artsy pics fast. They do nothing for me

Not just estate agents but holiday cottage websites. I don’t want to see closeups of your lavender bush, your bunting and your cupcakes, I want to see what your bathroom looks like and whether four of us can fit in your living room.

That link keeps crashing on me - I suspect because we're all on it.

I wonder if estate agents notice these sudden traffic spikes and say 'gosh that stunt croissant photo is really working to make these pics popular'.

When they don't include a floor plan. Why would anyone buy a house from you if you are that lazy?

Surely if Jeremy Corbyn really wants to be Prime Minister, if he promised to abolish estate agents, he'd win easily? The best argument against a market economy there is.

Horrible shit puns and jokes on the description

I'm an adult looking to buy a house, not for dad jokes.

(I think my "favourite" was something along the lines of:

This could be Rotterdam or anywhere, Liverpool or Rome, cause Rotterdam is anywhere, anywhere I own. But enough Beautiful South, this stunning house is in Beautiful Northwood.

Way to really not "get" the Beautiful South. And put me off you as estate agents.

@masktaster oh. My. God.

If I saw that on the proof for the advert when selling my house I'd fire the agent!

Also yes I hate the artsy photos. Why is there no floor plan? Where are the garden pictures? You have four bedrooms but only photos of two?

WTAF?!

"deceptively spacious". I really don't know whetehr this is meant to mean "looks poky but has more space than you think" or "looks spacious but it's deceiving you - it's actually tiny". My experience suggests what it actually means is "looks poky and it is".

As a SE resident can I just say " HOW is that only 300k???" (misses point of thread completely and considered just HOW bad it will be to move 2 6th formers and 1 GCSE teenager right now)

Well, it IS a former public house. Maybe the running tap is straight gin rather than water. I'd buy the house for that alone!

Racecardriver there is a flooorplan

I'm very close to that house too, and remember going in it when it was a pub (I'm old!)

Yeah you just know that when no bathrooms are photographed it's because they are shitholes!

I don’t want to see closeups of your lavender bush, your bunting and your cupcakes

This sounds like a string of euphemisms.

That house is stunning though! (misses point...) I live in London and the price makes me weep.

I know exactly what you mean though, I was looking at a house online recently and out of the 45 or so photos, at least 35 were close ups of small details - a candle on a windowsill, flowers in the garden, mirror above the sink etc. Gorgeous but obviously the current owner would take all that stuff with them anyway... I assume they are trying to sell a lifestyle - it's a bit Boden or Joules catalogue style in that way.

"Stunt croissant" is my new favourite phrase.

Yy To no floorplan, and curved lenses and not all rooms being pictured.

Also annoying is when there's several of the same room just from a slightly different angle, say of about a foot.

Oh, how nice; a picture of a manhole and some broken (?) benches.