[Tagging] Estate agent

[Tod Fitch]

> On May 17, 2015, at 9:01 AM, SomeoneElse <lists at atownsend.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> On 17/05/2015 16:52, Paweł Marynowski wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> it looks like since 2010 there is no consensus about how to tag estate agent - shop vs. office. Quick look at taginfo gives clear information, that office=estate_agent is much more popular.
>> 
> 
> Surely both are potentially valid?  Some estate agents' premises are very definitely shops, yet other estate agents work primarily from offices (where the emphasis isn't on facing the customer there).
> 

Perhaps is it because I speak American rather than British, but to me a shop is a place where the item(s) I buy can be carried out, if not in a shopping bag then on a truck (lorry). Assuming that “estate agent” translates to “real estate agent”, I would expect them to work out of an office rather than out of a shop.

Love the “bike shedding” that this list promotes. (Not really, but I was unaware of that term until I joined this list and it really does apply to nearly every tagging topic covered here.)

Cheers,
Tod

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