floorplans
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Features
How we were floored by a new kind of plan
Floor plans are evolving into much more than just ‘floor plans’ as Sheila Manchester found out.
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Our man with a pen tries to make a plan
Most vendors only have a dim idea of the blood, sweat and tears that go into a floor plan. And neither did Nigel Lewis until he decided to have a go himself.
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Latest property news
More demand for lettings floorplans
Metropix reports a further increase in the use of floor plans by letting agents in the UK.
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Products & Services
Planned in
Not so long ago only the most expensive listings had floor plans – the agent had to sketch it on paper and post it to an architect to be professionally drawn. Now, says Nigel Lewis, everyone wants one.
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Products & Services
More letting agents embrace floor plans
There has been a surge in the use of floor plans in rental property listings, according to Metropix, a major supplier of floor plan based products to the residential estate agency market. The figures, which have been gathered via Mouseprice, reveal growth of 182 per cent across a three-year period. In June 2012 just 5.71 per cent of properties listed included a floor plan, while the figure in June 2015 had risen almost threefold to 16.08 per cent. These findings were further supported in recent research among sellers and landlords by Rightmove, in which 43 per cent of landlords said that they would not instruct an agent if they did not provide a floor plan. Furthermore, the same research revealed that many tenants rank the ability to view floor plans as a priority. Rightmove report that many tenants rank the ability to view floor plans as more important than main image and summary text and second only to a selection of images for the property. Brian Farrell (left), Director of Metropix, said: “The Rightmove research tells us that tenants might completely ignore a property without a floor plan so I am not altogether surprised that we have seen such a…
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Without a plan… you’re floored
Homehunters want the full picture, says Sheila Manchester, so why don’t all agents supply floor plans for every property?
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Plan ahead – floorplans sell houses
Andrea Kirkby asks, should floorplans be a permanent part of your marketing mix?
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