Does any state organisation regulate Myhome.ie, Daft.ie and the other property sites?

Am I missing something?

Can you not add the individual sizes up to get the overall? And the conversion of m2/ft2 could not be simpler.

In relation to size, the advertiser/brochure does not owe a duty of care to you, you have to measure the dimensions yourself.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/supreme-court/property-investor-s-350-000-award-over-brochure-error-overturned-1.3104735

Because it’s simple to do.

In relation to imperial measurements, are you applying consumer law to property?

Maybe the State agencies should up their game before we look at yet more regulation of the private sector. For example the PSRA gives a record of actual transaction values for all relevant properties but no information on the area. This should be dead easy to provide and would add immensely to the value of the price register.

So get you act together, civil servants, before telling everyone else what to do.

Can you reference the applicable law please?

Strange analogy, that currency hasn’t been legal tender since 2002. What would you do if a customer paid you in the currency you advertised the item for sale?

right cos that’s definitely the same thing..

”anyone wanna buy my house with non legal tender?”

“only if you measure it in feet and inches!!!!!!!!”

To be fair Furze, it’s hardly a ruse/trick to advertise in ft/ft2. Many of us still refer to our own, and others height in ft and “s rather than m/cm. We know small/medium/large rooms/houses by their square footage and builders quotes are still often given in ft2. I recently had to increase the insurance on my house to take into account rise in cost of rebuild, I was asked about ft2 size of my house by insurer.

The conversion from ft2 to m2 is among the simplest calculations there is, as others have said, if you can’t do that in your head, chances are you will find other facets of buying/building almost impossible.

We still call a pint a pint (I know, it’s exempted), the op’s ire and your accusation is akin to accusing a pub of trickery/a ruse for not referring to it in its metric form. The fact remains, a pint is a pint, the same way a foot is a foot or an acre is ….., well you get the drift, the length/area does not get shorter/smaller depending on the unit of measurement. It’s just being outraged for the sake of it.

Make no mistake, changing to metric was all about harmonising measurements within the EU, the reason they still allow imperial to be used as well is that an American wouldn’t know a metre from a shilling, and with the UK reverting to imperial, you can be sure it will still be used here.

Does referring to a room in feet really reduce the quality, reliability and availability of the information to you? Sounds like you are saying the unit used in some way alters the length/area of the room. Strange.

Does anyone think stating your height in mm rather than feet/inches changes how tall you are or is a trick/ruse?

He/she should buy a calculator if mental arithmetic is not their strongpoint. It only “appears larger” to the very few.

In 2021 would you accept payment in pounds, shillings and pence for the item you are selling? The answer to that should give a clue as to the strangeness of advertising the item for sale in those units of currency.

Besides which, an advertised price for an item is merely an invitation to treat. You can advertise the item for sale in beans if you like.

Hope the op never wants to buy in the UK.

If you ask for the overall sq ft of a property you will be answered with a blank stare.

Unless there's an obligation to give a size, there's no obligation as to what metrics to use and most people will know the approximate equivalence between metric and imperial as we get a huge amount of information from the UK

Methinks the op is ranting for the sake of a rant.