Friday, March 23, 2007
Creatively advertising small properties
I saw an article in this morning’s AM New York about the tiny studios being offered in New York as starter homes – some as small as 100 square feet (a snip at only $1100 a month – where else could you get a rent like that on the Upper West Side?!!!). It reminded me of a property I saw in Barnet, just north of London, while I was driving buses.
On a triangular traffic island between High Road and a major intersecting road (I never knew the name), sat a single story rectangular building, typical of London’s old Public Toilets. Indeed, it used to be a Public Toilet. But some enterprising person in the Council decided that what with the property market being as insane as it was 3 years ago, rather than knock the thing down, sell it to the highest bidder as a home. I often wondered how I might advertise it, if I was an Estate Agent:
“One-of-a-kind starter home: Fully detached bungalow (Americans should know that in England, that’s a good thing! It means simply, a single story house.) with excellent plumbing, 2 bathrooms and his ‘n’ her entrances….”
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On a triangular traffic island between High Road and a major intersecting road (I never knew the name), sat a single story rectangular building, typical of London’s old Public Toilets. Indeed, it used to be a Public Toilet. But some enterprising person in the Council decided that what with the property market being as insane as it was 3 years ago, rather than knock the thing down, sell it to the highest bidder as a home. I often wondered how I might advertise it, if I was an Estate Agent:
“One-of-a-kind starter home: Fully detached bungalow (Americans should know that in England, that’s a good thing! It means simply, a single story house.) with excellent plumbing, 2 bathrooms and his ‘n’ her entrances….”
