Estate agent language

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It seems that every where is a highly sought after area. Are you finding this being over used?

Friend's house just gone up for sale, almost unrecognisable from the photos - filters and wide angle lenses. They've had a lot of viewings and no offers....hmmm.

I was quite put out the other day to find one that was 'coming to the market for the first time in over 30 years' and yet when I looked at the pictures it seemed perfectly normal. I was expecting batshit weirdness; it was rather a disappointment.

Roy Brooks was brilliant!

Just about all flats anywhere around here are ‘stunning’. That is, unless they would ‘benefit from some updating’. They’re hardly ever flats, either - ‘apartments’ apparently makes them sound even more stunningly desirable.

‘Bright, open plan living/diner’ when applied to flats, means kitchen crammed into one end of a living room and nowhere to put anything.

Shower ‘cubicals’ are often a feature.

Has potential = money pit
Loved by the same family for 50 years = 50 year old electrics, roof and windows.
I’ve noticed places with beautiful gardens are often neglected on the inside. Elderly people don’t ever change their kitchens and bathrooms.

Oh, and around here it’s often a ‘sort-after’ area. 😄

It's generally no better with rentals. Saw a cottage that was so neglected it was semi derelict inside and the estate agent kept bleating 'it's old fashioned'. Old fashioned I don't mind. Old as in derelict, I do. The shocker is that it was 1 of a row of very lovely sought after cottages in a genuinely sought after village, owned by the local big landowner who could afford to so the work. The real shocker is that so many people are desperate to live there it went to someone who offered £200 over the asking rent. We'd already refused it at the original amount.

I've seen 'deceptive' quite a few times. Not 'deceptively spacious', just deceptive. It makes no sense. Just makes me think of a house with a sneaky personality.

I think some of the agents stick it on listings of places where it would be truly disingenuous to claim it was spacious, but they want people who are speed-reading the listing to think that's what was said.

Where i live (not is the uk) every school is 'popular' in a 'sought after area' and all are 'close to shops and transport'

Houses here often have descriptions of how they are close to “sought-after” schools.

There isn’t a secondary for over 8 miles that isn’t requires improvement or serious weaknesses.

Where I live, a new outrageously expensive development is always "exclusive" or "executive family" homes. Meaning they have squeezed 3 more rooms (including a cinema room) than sensibly suit the floor plan and have added another £100k to the price

@Thecazelets that made me laugh so much

Slight related question.

What does OIEO actually mean ?

1. They HAVE offers above and seeing if they can get more
2. They will only accept OIEO ?
3. Something completely different ?

I think it generally means don't prat us about with silly offers.
We won't take anything under the asking price type of thing.