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Home buyers’ wish list

A larger kitchen is now more important than sitting rooms for entertaining
A larger kitchen is now more important than sitting rooms for entertaining

A new inside poll of house buyers has revealed the wish list of items buyers both desire and detest when looking to buy a new home.

The two top-10 lists, compiled by Zoom995, may prove useful to those looking to swap a for sale sign to a sold sign sooner rather than later.

Dream items for the perfect home include:

A strong mobile phone reception/network coverage

Three bedrooms – with many wanting the third room as an office

The home to come with a large screen TV or other technology gadgets

Adequate storage – with one particular request being “large enough to play hide and seek with the children around the home”

A larger kitchen rather than sitting rooms for entertaining

To be within walking distance of a primary school and the local pub

For there to be a good range of take-away companies that will deliver to the house

Have a maximum of 40 minutes’ commute to work

A garden size of around 1/4 of an acre

Seller-beware items, that’s items that may put viewers off include:

Fish ponds, due to children and grandchildren

Ghosts! The thought of a haunted house makes people shudder

Downstairs bathrooms unless there’s an upstairs one too

Stains on the carpet make buyers wince, particularly in the toilet

Un-trimmed bushes puts off those with less than green fingers

Pelmets are seen as dust catchers so ditch them with the chintz

Damp patches and mould as it instantly makes people worry about cost and health

Broken or missing knobs and door handles

Exotic pets

Wet washing, especially underwear hanging on the radiators

Michael Robinson, director of Zoom995.co.uk, said: “It’s really interesting looking into the requests we receive and the feedback we hear. I’ve worked in the industry for more than 30 years and in this time the wish list has changed dramatically with technology and the want for more space increasing with each generation.

“However, buyers actually haven’t really changed with their list of dislikes. People sometimes struggle to see how their furniture would look on a different coloured flooring so putting extra hurdles in a buyer’s eyeshot won’t help with the sale of your home.”