Lunchtime Live<\/a>, Ciaran Mulqueen of the Crazy House Prices Instagram account admitted AI is \u201cnot the biggest problem\u201d facing the housing market but said buyers are right to find it annoying.\u00a0<\/p>\n\u201cThat’s always going to be down to a lack of supply,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cNo other industries and no other services or anything like that can falsely advertise – there’s standards there.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIf somebody is selling a vegetarian sandwich, they can’t put meat in it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWhereas with housing, it just seems like they can say and now show whatever they like and it’s just \u2018buyer beware\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr Mulqueen continued that what started with the photoshopping of blue skies has become much more serious under AI.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s evolving into adding on extensions, putting in gardens that don’t exist, this kind of thing,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cLike I saw one where they had furniture in there that just physically would not fit in the room.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI guess that the justification is some people maybe are not able to visualise that themselves.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel that’s a bit very belittling of people; like people aren\u2019t stupid, they know what can be done with a house.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Housing crisis<\/p>\n
Overall, Mr Mulqueen argued that the practice is also unnecessary given how easy it is to sell houses in the current market.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s just another kind of slap in the face for buyers when everything is, everything is stacked against buyers in this country,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThere’s very few new homes ever built for sale, there’s so many issues in the housing market.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is just another one of those things lumped onto homebuyers.\u201d<\/p>\n
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