What phrases do you dislike from estate agents details...

[KitschinSynch]

My pet hates are:
"this fine home" related to any Victorian house
"buff interior" buff meaning fit rather than the colour...
I will add more when they come to me :)

[mateysmum]

"Conveniently situated"

Usually means ...on a busy main road, next to a pub.

All depends on what you want to be convenient to I suppose.

[KitschinSynch]

Or near a public toilet maybe?

[foxdongle]

"Requires improvement" = You will spend all your time and money on it until you eventually sell it.

[Restrainedrabbit]

"Flexible accommodation" -usually means they have listed the house as a four bed but the fourth bedroom is accessed from the garage.

"Must be seen" - well yes clearly otherwise how else will you know whether to buy or not?!!!!

[FuckyNell]

'Sort after location'

[KitschinSynch]

[BirdsDoIt]

'Deceptively spacious' - they mean it's small but looks big, I think - actually means it's spacious but doesn't look it...

[JuanPotatoTwo]

Requires some updating = total shit heap.
Has great potential = is in a right state.
Charming and quirky = dilapidated and falling down.

[TheOriginalSteamingNit]

'Comprising of'

[OhBabyLilyMunster]

Starting sentences with 'having'.... Ie 'having double sockets to hallway.'

[AlpacaYourThings]

"Well presented" - not for any particular reason, they just always use it if somewhere is decorated neutrally.

[KitschinSynch]

I actually have a bit of a problem with 'property' and 'home'. I would prefer 'house/flat/bungalow' but then I like things to be plain and factual.

[OscarWinningActress]

Our last house was a "handsome executive home". That's code for "lots of dead/unusable/environmentally un-friendly space and grandiose details thought up by someone with no taste and delusions of grandeur".

[noisytoys]

Requires some modernisation - needs to be gutted and start again.

[FrontForward]

Tucked away location down a back alley with no access by car

[FrontForward]

glimpses of the river if you stand on a chair and crane your neck out if the tallest window

[ballsballsballs]

'Benefits from' something you'd expect as a matter of course, like a bathroom.

'Keenly priced' which means they overpriced it in the first place and the vendors are sick of not selling.

[iamusuallybeingunreasonable]

Potential for extension = pokey shithole

Bags of potential = shithole

[scottishmummy]

Do-er-upper= midden
Vibrant location=noisy

[Franke]

Light and airy.

[FrontForward]

a great opportunity to acquire = kid yourself you're getting a bargain because it's cheaper than the neighbours, but by the time you've finished doing it up you'll have spent way more than you should have

[FrontForward]

undergone modernisation but still managed to keep all of it's charactor and charm. Neither modern not traditional. Bit of a hotchpotch

[Lucy61]

Vendor suited- does that mean a well turned out vendor?!

[HaveYouTriedARewardChart]

"Stunning" - the most over-used and inappropriately used word. Have been looking and can't find it but recently saw a garden described as stunning.... it was 20 feet of concrete surrounded by a cheap wooden fence. No plants, no greenery whatsoever. Some old clothes hanging from the fence. In the middle of a local authority estate.