Andy Hall wrote:

I am dubious as to how many of the minor ones really affect property
value, though. Turn off if there are choices of other properties,
perhaps.....

As you said in another post - much of this is to do with marketing the
property rather than actaully altering its value as such. Having said
that, as was demonstrated in the million pound property experiment, they
were able to make quite dramtic changes to the sale prices of the places
simply by "dressing" the property to sell.

In reality the only reall value issues they list seem to be:-

Hard / costly to fix:

* Not dealing with structural disasters
* Bad extensions
* Bad layout

Impossible to fix (by acceptable means!)

* Nightmare neighbours

Potentially expensive to fix depending on level:

* UPVC (especially in period properties)
* Bad DIY
* Pine
* Bad taste exteriors

You could include the bathroom suite in there since the colour may be an
indication of it being old enough to want replacing anyway.

The rest seems to be floor / decore / furnishing issues which are easy
enough to resolve.

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Cheers,

John.

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