Property News · October 10, 2014

What letting and estate agents really mean


A bijou home? That’s a boxroom to you and me. A sea glimpse? Crane your neck. Letting and estate agents come cleanThe “bijou”’ home that’s a tiny box room; the house “moments from beautiful open spaces” that is actually on a six-lane motorway; the coastal apartment with “sea glimpses” – if you stand on the balcony and have an extremely long neck.Britain’s estate agents have always been creative in their language, undeterred by the (recently repealed) 1991 Property Misdescriptions Act. But now they’ve come clean, revealing the real meaning behind the phrases common on almost every estate agent’s particulars. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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