where do you look for houses???

shirlgirl2004

rightmove

I don't know of a local EA that doesn't advertise on RM. I wouldn't consider an EA that didn't advertise on RM if there was one. I guess there will always be areas that buck the trend. Some of it depends on the type of people that live in that area. The area I live in is classified as an area that has a high %age of people that use online banking etc so it follows that these are the type of people that would look online for houses. If I had a retirement flat to sell I wouldn't be worrying about RM so much.

TD5

rightmove

Property Bee only works with Rightmove so no point in looking elsewhere

PasturesNew

rightmove

I hate going to EA offices, as a single female they never take you seriously.

maggie111

rightmove

I use rightmove to look at new properties, then property snake to see if any have been recently reduced.

I did try and find any local EAs with properties not on rightmove and couldn't find one?? Perhaps I didn't look hard enough, but every EA with a website in the area was enough for me

2 months ago I walked into every EA on the high street and said "FTB, mortgage agreed, looking for x" and no one took any details, jumped up and down etc. I walked home in a dazed state! Last time I did that at the height of the market in a different area, I had all manner of EAs phoning me constantly - with an array of sh*t properties

SplanK

I used rightmove a lot and setup several searches that emailed me every 24hrs (this really worked well and pulled back relivent searches instead of trying to push us into something we didnt want)... each weekend I would go into town and look for a place in the EAs windows and then just drive around looking for places with FS signs

but i found that when I went into EA's to ask - they just kept giving me stuff that I didnt want even though I was specific.... IE I asked for a semi, up to 130k (our max) in the chorley area but they ignored this and we got given details on mid terrece, no garden 135k and other poor quality houses

so i sacked off going in unless booking a viewing or asking for more details on a specific house I had seen!

The house we bought was listed on right move and the search picked it out - it was on for 24hrs when we went for our first viewing, then a few days later our 2nd vieiwing and on the Aug BH weekend we put in the offer!

Davesnave

EAs have popped on and off Rightmove in the last 2 years like the proverbial bloke on the Clapham omnibus, so it can be quite hard to determine who is covered & who isn't at any given time.

I used to search EA sites individually once a day, as it could take up to three days for a new property to hit Rightmove. I would then run a quick time-limited scan of Rightmove once a week to see if I'd slipped-up and something had gone past me. It was a sort of game, with me as the property 'goalkeeper.'

Yeah, a bit sad, I know, but like like religious rituals, it just became part of life. I wanted to be sure that 'the' property wouldn't slip though my greedy fingers.

Of course, it did!:(

googler

local estate agents websites or their windows

TD5 wrote: »

Property Bee only works with Rightmove so no point in looking elsewhere

... IF Rightmove has the majority of the properties in your area. Where's the advantage of using RM and PB if you miss 70% of the properties?

tajna

I used to use RM but found that many houses were not advertised on there so had to look in the local newspapers and all of the EA around in our area.

chickmug

Now then confused31 this poll has arisen because you were plucking figures out of the air, on another thread, about the % of folks that used rightmove.

So do you really think this poll is going to be the credible proof source to quote for evermore? Asking people who clearly already use the internet is hardly a good basis for running the poll.

ilovephones

rightmove

I use a combination of rightmove and primelocation. Find that primelocation searches around the area slightly better than rightmove does.

also found that registering with estate agents, they actually call you before putting the house on rightmove to save on their listing fees and have actually been to view a house that went on before it landed on rightmove and it sold, so even though they are sometimes a pain, you can find a gem of an agent sometimes!