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We're all sweet on en suite facilities
En Suites have now become a necessity
Posted: 2008/02/01
LESS than a generation ago the term en suite was more or less unknown in the housing world. But these days the en suite - otherwise known as the posh cludgie beside the bedroom - has bec
Solicitors and estate agents Warners have been shedding light on the fact we are no longer satisfied with just a bathroom or even additional wc when we set off to purchase a new home. More and more of us, it seems, want a place that comes with en suite bathrooms.
This must-have criterion applies not only when we head off to buy a large home. We even want en suite facilities when it comes to choosing new flats.
Scott Brown, estate agency partner with Edinburgh-based Warners, said: "When it comes to choosing a home one of the things many will automatically expect are en suites.
"Until relatively recently, say ten years ago, they were not the norm in even new-build homes.
"But where America leads, Britain tends to follow. And the trend for bathrooms in every room of the house has been big there for years.
"A lot of homeowners have added one in and almost all newbuilds nowadays will have at least one, if not two or three, included as standard.
"When you think back to how things were 20 or 30 years ago it seems crazy to think that two people sharing a flat would need two bathrooms.
"Big families all shared one bathroom, and many did not even have an extra WC. That is still the case in many of the suburban family homes built in the late Eighties and Nineties.
"But the children of that generation, now adults, have more disposable income and are willing to invest that in property that is more luxurious than where they might have grown up."
The agency currently has almost 200 homes on their books. Of those, about 60 have en suite facilities and nine have more than one.
Mr Brown explained: "Life is all about convenience nowadays.
"People are in much more of a rush in their day-to-day lives and they want their homes to be as convenient and calm as possible and they are willing to pay more for it.
"There is also an increasing number of young professionals sharing flats as they wait longer to settle down. These people have the cash to invest in places they are comfortable in and they are expecting more and more from their home."
