where do you look for houses???

shirlgirl2004

rightmove

ilovephones wrote: »

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!

That hasn't been my experience at all. I am registered with a reasonable number of agents as they take your details when you view. They then bombard you with texts/emails/post but I have never had any info sent to me that I hadn't already seen on RM. Maybe all the agents in this area are rubbish . I remember one house I called up about which the EA was enthusing that they hoped we liked it because we were is such a good position. It's a shame I had to see it on RM and he hadn't bothered to contact me before even though he had my details and knew I was specifically looking for a house of that size/price/location.

confused31_2

rightmove

I started this post a few months ago anyway , i like to think that when i am wrong i will admit it and thats why ive had to dig up this old thread , and say i have finally bought a house, and guess what it wasnt on rightmove.

So everyone i think i may have been wrong on this one, and maybe there is more to small estate agents that dont actually use rightmove.

thanks

Davesnave

The house I bought wasn't on my Rightmove either. It was on Rightmove, but it was too cheap to show up in my searches. I picked it up a few days late on the EA's site.