Emphasizing the Garage When Selling a House

WHS ^
Estate agents often don't get it, not important to them doesn't mean not important to all buyers.
On a purely sales basis if cars are your 'thing' and you are proud of your garage any good salesman would reflect that interest to get the business of selling your house.
The market for people who might want an insulated outbuilding is probably bigger than people who want a pit - but its still a big positive either way over the house with a crappy single skin damp leaky garage.
James

The amount of houses we didn't view because there were either no pictures of the garage, or was not included in the floorplan was huge.

We saw some with only a bit of information because the house was really nice. In the end our decision to buy this house for me was because the garage was longer and a bit wider than a standard single.

Tell the estate agent to include it, its a big selling point for car enthusiasts, woodworkers, bikers... anyone with a garage based hobby.

I emailed Rightmove in the past as they have filters for pretty much everything, but not a garage.

They seemed to care not a jot

Sad times!

Hi, The garage you have can broaden it's appeal. So a line to the effect it has a cavity wall double garage with potential for development. A car enthusiast will pick that up and also anyone who wants to build another room. I wouldn't mention the pit because not all car people like them (I certainly don't) and a developer will see it as extra cost to fill in.

Good luck.

Colin

Confession time...and hopefully I won't be cast out into the internet wilderness.

I am an Estate Agent....

Still here? Anybody?
OK, well basically your Agent ought to at the very least simply add a sentence about the garage in the description and write-up of the property. I often highlight a good workshop or garage by putting those words in capitals in the narrative and would always include dimensions in the body of the description. For what it's worth, I would definitely have taken a look and noted the pit and so on. As you say, why not include it? - such things won't stop someone (who has no interest in cars) buying it and can only broaden appeal as long as they don't take over the whole listing making it appear niche.
Rightmove does have a keyword search so will prioritise listings matching what you put in whether it's a garage/swimming pool/workshop etc etc. It's not a great filter but might help those searching and the text will need to be there to be picked up as a keyword.
If the agent you pick can't be arsed then you've picked the wrong agent. (PS make sure you pick an agent who doesn't tie you into a long sole agency period either!)

Garages are disappearing, everyone round here soon converts them so they can get and extra 7 relatives to live in the house.

It is Birmingham though, we sold our house and move out in 6 weeks. We’re still looking for a new house as it must have a big garage or space to build one

Get them to put in the description about the garage.

I sold my first house to a young couple, the chap looked around the 12x22x8 garage (aka barn) first and decided he didn't need to see the rest of the house to know he liked the place. I do similar when I buy - look around the outside & garage first !

I've since sold a few houses and am now very firm about telling the agent what wording I want in the advert. Have had too many "professionals" advertise for me using what is obviously their standard cut & paste text. Some gems I've seen online have even advertised terraced houses as detached - if they can't get the basics right why would you let them control the rest of the advert?

That will teach me for 'quickly reading'

I read 'a pit and pedestrian' as 'a pit and pendulum' and thought 'the estate agents must of heard about it and didn't fancy going in'

For those uninitiated, it's one scary short story by Edgar Allan Poe.