Estate agents: doncha just love 'em?

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This week's property free sheet & one estate agency has referred to (twice, and in big, bold type); pier de terre s.

I wonder if they were in a Cooldi sack?

"Mange tout, Rodney, mange tout."

NTT

But pied a terre is estate-agent-speak in the first place!

Pierre De Terre could be the agent himself..

sort after area

I saw "beejoo" once in the local property listings paper.

not quite the same thing but a local estate agents used to start a property description with something like: "WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Look at THIS!!!!!!!!!!"

my local agent, who keeps dropping his fliers through the door, has apostrophe displacement syndrome "just sold, 3 house's in your area - more ugently needed for buyer's"

I'm so tempted to correct the flyer and send it back!

Do it, joyful spike!

IMHO, you should not be allowed to write stuff that enters the public domain when promoting a business if your spelling, grammar and punctuation is not up to scratch.

I see it all the time in my job. One of my faves is "Chef's wanted."

Well, that could be "a chef is wanted..." Hmm, maybe not!

I read this on an estate agent's website the other day, though it's poncetastic, rather than wrong...

Commenting on the sale, the present owner said; ?The property deserves an adventurous purchaser who will appreciate the external elegance of a Georgian home combined with interesting internal dimensions - not least the generous ceiling heights ? and the light and airy second floor restoration that reflects its former association with the town's silk trade.?

I don't believe the present owner said that at all - in today's market I would think they'd just be glad to have a buyer, not specifying the type of buyer their property "deserves", ffs.

I have seen houses described as "charismatic" - it's aHOUSE ffs. And there's another but I can't remember it, it'll come to me.

my favourite is "genuine walk to shops"

estate agents love to say 'yourself' a lot too...as in 'if yourself and your husband would like to book an appointment..'

One of our local agents uses "boasting/boasts" a lot - "boasting" an en suite or even "boasting" gas central heating". Also we have one that regularly describes properties as 3/4 bedrooms. Surely they can decide if it is 3 OR 4!

houses can also 'enjoy' a fine view

"Comprising of"

Hate that "yourself/yourselves" thing - it's taking over!

And "comprising of" too.

When we sold our last house, the blurb for the brochure and the paper was just so awful that I offered to rewrite it and email it back to them. And I did. bet I was popular in their office...

The one I can't fathom is "in the catchment area for local schools". Well, yes. Its got to be in the catchment area for somewhere! Does this mean it's not a good one?...

"en-suite door"
Yes, I had forgotten all those houses that enjoy countryside views - the lucky things!

My BIL refused to accept the estate agent's description of their house due to crap spelling and grammar and so re-wrote it himself.

Branflakes we did that too.

One local agent uses the phrase "of note".