Should bedrooms dictate price, asks Nigel Lewis of Zoopla Property Group | This is Gloucestershire

Should bedrooms dictate price, asks Nigel Lewis of Zoopla Property Group | This is Gloucestershire

Do you remember the battle to keep imperial measurements such as the foot, pound and inch rather than use Europe's metre, kilogramme and centimetre?
Then you may also remember that imperial measurements eventually lost out to metric.
But one metric habit we haven't adopted so easily is measuring our homes by their floor size, rather than how many bedrooms they have.
Go house hunting in France for example and it's often difficult to find out how many bedrooms a house offers; local agents look at you in Gallic wonder when asked.
But what's the problem – that's just the way our strange Euro friends do it, right? Well, no. Using the number of bedrooms as the main measure of a property's price is the most inaccurate way to work out its value for money, many people believe.
For example, the average price per square metre in England for a detached house is £25 while a flat is double that – £51 a square metre, research by property website Zoopla.co.uk shows.