Thread: Estate agent showed house as owner lay dead on couch

A KEEN real estate agent showed prospective buyers around a $1.3million home while the owner lay dead on the couch - after he mistakenly thought she was asleep.

Agent Samuel Allfort said he thought the 55-year-old woman was resting when he brought a couple over to view the home in Notting Hill, West London, in June last year.

He told Westminster Coroners’ Court that he had taken the couple around the home and left the lounge room until last in the hope that owner Katherine Frame would wake up by the time the viewing ended.

When she didn’t the Marsh and Parsons agent walked the couple outside and before coming back in to try and wake Miss Frame.

In a statement read to the court, Mr Allfort said: “Whilst doing the viewing I decided the leave the living room until last as it looked like someone was asleep on the sofa.

Estate agent showed house as owner lay dead on couch | News.com.au

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You can trust a real estate agent not to let details like a corpse get in the way of a commission

Originally Posted by Looper

I decided the leave the living room until last

Think he meant the dying room.

In the business 32 years I've shown property with a dead person in bed, couples fookin, girls in the shower, drugs on the counter and one with a porno movie of the Korean wife (not mine, the homeowner) playing on the bedroom TV. exciting life real estate is

A mate of mine bought a hotel witha body in one of the rooms.

Turns out the body had been there months.

From Loopers link

This is the picture of the house.

Katherine Frame lay dead on her couch as a real estate agent showed buyers around her London home. Source: Google Street View

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Fook me! You don't get a lot for 1.3 million these days.

Passeger joosed it in the front seat when I worked as a taxi driver...

Originally Posted by The Fresh Prince

Fook me! You don't get a lot for 1.3 million these days.

Not in Notting Hill, mate.

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Originally Posted by The Fresh Prince

Fook me! You don't get a lot for 1.3 million these days.

maybe the body was a previous buyer who died of a heart attck after being told the price