Property descriptions - Roy Brooks must be turning in his grave

No more brothels in Pimlico.......

News that portals and a local newspaper have discontinued carrying an estate agent's descriptions because of "offensive content" seems a sad sign of the times. The assumption that people are too stupid to "get it" says more about those portals and local paper than we could ever repeat here.

Whilst one might easily argue that humour is best left as the preserve of professional comedians - and selling & letting properties left to estate agents - there does seem to be a very special kind of "sense of humour failure" at work here.

If descriptions that are otherwise totally unoffensive are to be banned can we please suggest that any property descriptions containing the words "stunning", "charming" and "delightful" be trashed first?

In the meantime, here's one of our favorites from Roy Brooks, that estate agents today sadly daren't emulate. However much a silent majority of buyers and sellers might wish.

"Fashionable Chelsea, A clapped out early Victorian villa. Semi detached so you can get your motorbike round to the dirty patch of weeds which passes for a garden........... Dirty, dark brown varnished woodwork dating back to the General Strike (property misdescriptions would have you for that one as well Mr Brooks - what if it only went back as far as WW2?) .....Quiet backwater abutting hospital laundry."