Estate Agents - What the actual !!!!

Pawnless Endgame said:
My 2 cents (or 2 pence) in the house buying process is that you don't know when you get the keys to the house until the day itself. I was lucky in that I had 4 family members and 2 cars shared between them to help with the house move. If I had to rely on a removals firm however, then the planning would have been a nightmare due to not knowing a firm date until the day itself.
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As I recall you barely had time to unscrew all the lightbulbs and dig up the lawn before moving out.




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I pretty much class estate agents just slightly higher in the sewer pipe than journo's and wonder how they can still share the same air as us.
 
I hired an LWB tranny from enterprise last time I moved...
Couple of mates and we smashed it out in less than a day... Although I was only moving about 5 miles.

Bought them lunch and a few beers that evening and worked out very good value for money!
 
Talked about it on here before but yes I agree with all the hate towards estate agents. Well deserved based on my experiences. Our solicitors were so bad I had to get the owner of the company to step in and handle our house move. After that it was better but they still sent me an entire random person's move pack accidentally, causing a huge data breach. What I find funny, is that one of the staples of their job, is to ensure details are correct. Especially addresses!
 
Agents selling my nans house were a mixed bag.. Small company and the owner/boss of the agency was really good to deal with but the job got delegated (as you'd expect) to a 'sales executive'.
She was a total nightmare that would just talk over you and talk forever..
I literally had to tell her to 'shut up and listen' during one phone call, that's how bad it was.

Sale went fine overall but she did not help matters!
 
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VincentHanna said:
This doesn't make sense really, they get commission based on the sale price, so it's in their interest to get the most they can.
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It was a fixed price fee from Yopa. I wish we went with the local estate agents that brought a ton of people round the house my sister was buying and had a 'submit your best offer' bidding system.
 
ANDREW GREEN said:
It was a fixed price fee from Yopa. I wish we went with the local estate agents that brought a ton of people round the house my sister was buying and had a 'submit your best offer' bidding system.
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I sold via a bricks and mortar agent.. They just charged a flat fee of about 4.5k.. Which was pretty good as a percentage on a 350k house
 
When we received an offer on our property, we saw one we liked which was being advertised by the SAME estate agents. I rang them up and offered 5k less for it, as the offer was 5k less on ours, and I insisted that we would only accept the offer on ours if they got us this one. They sure as hell convinced the seller to sell to us, within 24 hours I received confirmation, so if it's in their best interests they can be okay. :/
 
Always used local places, never really had much of an issue tbh. Are they worth the fees? Probably not but you use them out of convenience.

That said, when I was younger and looking at city centre flats, I was presented with some absolute dives, my first glimpse into how some ‘working professions’ actually lived. You’d think the agents would’ve told them to tidy up ahead of us coming or at least tried to put a positive spin on it rather than just follow you about as you looked on in disbelief.

The laws around buying and selling seem better north of the border though, it appears a lot more secure than down south.
 
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