Candour plea on house floor space
%VIRTUAL-SkimlinksPromo%Estate agents should be forced to list the floor space of properties they put up for sale or rent, academics have said as new research revealed more than half of houses in England are failing to meet modern standards on size.
The majority of homes, 55%, do not have a big enough floor area, while more than one in five, or 21%, is short of space when taking into account the number of occupants, the Cambridge University research found.