{"id":582,"date":"2015-08-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/make-access-a-selling-point\/"},"modified":"2016-09-08T16:27:53","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T16:27:53","slug":"make-access-a-selling-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/make-access-a-selling-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Make Access a Selling Point"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- SEO Ultimate Plus (https:\/\/seoultimateplus.com) - Code Inserter module -->\n<script async>(function(s,u,m,o,j,v){j=u.createElement(m);v=u.getElementsByTagName(m)[0];j.async=1;j.src=o;j.dataset.sumoSiteId='b68b392479b5981b8acf46565e9fe32a0734fc21a1f7c1e60121eaa6ca1a1c64';v.parentNode.insertBefore(j,v)})(window,document,'script','\/\/load.sumo.com\/');<\/script>\n<!-- \/SEO Ultimate Plus -->\n\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\"><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/uploads\/media\/disabled property sale.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"305\" height=\"406\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/>How attractive could your property be to the 10 million UK citizens who identify themselves as disabled?\u00a0That&#8217;s a lot of potential purchasers!<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\">Of course, not all disabled people need accessible property, but a significant number do, and taking the time when you advertise to promote access features of your property increases the likelihood of making that all important sale.\u00a0And it&#8217;s not just disabled people &#8211; older people also appreciate information about access.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\">There\u2019s nothing complicated about promoting access as part of your advert.\u00a0The House Shop\u00a0provides you with all you need in the form of a detailed checklist in which you can tick features that are likely to benefit someone with limited mobility, including wheelchair users.\u00a0For example, does the property have level access, an entrance level WC, or a wetroom?<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\">You can see a full list of access features at the end of this article.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The features that you tick will appear as part of your advert &#8211; and buyers searching the House Shop\u00a0website are able to select any combination of these and choose to view only properties that meet their access needs.\u00a0So taking the time to promote access properly is a really worthwhile exercise from everyone&#8217;s point of view.<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The checklist that we use has been developed in partnership with access specialists, The Accessible Property Register <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessible-property.org.uk \"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\">www.accessible-property.org.uk <\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\">Once you have completed your advert with the House Shop, the property is automatically assessed and, if it meets our standards for wheelchair access, the advert will be uploaded free of charge to the Accessible Property Register website as well!<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\">Wheelchair access&#8217; just means that we are looking for property in which the entrance level is accessible to a wheelchair user.\u00a0The upload will therefore be available to any property including the following features:<\/span><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\">Parking available<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\">No steps on approach to the property<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\">Level or ramped access<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\">Level access to main entrance level rooms<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\">Entrance level WC<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\">Property in multi-storey blocks will qualify providing there is suitable lift access.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How attractive could your property be to the 10 million UK citizens who identify themselves as disabled?\u00a0That&#8217;s a lot of potential purchasers!\u00a0 Of course, not all disabled people need accessible property, but a significant number do, and taking the time<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/make-access-a-selling-point\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wl_entities_gutenberg":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","spay_email":""},"categories":[12,16],"tags":[],"wl_entity_type":[602],"modified_by":null,"_wl_alt_label":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","wl:entity_url":"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0502\/post\/make_access_a_selling_point","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8400,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions\/8400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582"},{"taxonomy":"wl_entity_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wl_entity_type?post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}