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Any other places to look for properties?

seabass
seabass Posts: 72 Forumite
in House buying, renting & selling
The only ones I know of are sites such as rightmove or findaproperty, any other websites just seem to have the same properties. Is there any other places I can look for more of a range?

Thanks
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  • Muhasib
    Muhasib Posts: 236 Forumite
    zoopla, globrix should fill in any gaps - any more out there worth looking at?
  • googler
    googler Posts: 16,103 Forumite
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    It'll depend on where you are in the country, and what price range you're looking in.

    Some areas Rightmove dominates, others it doesn't.

    If you're looking for country houses or estates, then Savills, Knight Frank etc might be the place to look, since these don't tend to be Rightmove fodder....
  • 54druids
    54druids Posts: 516 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    googler wrote: »
    It'll depend on where you are in the country, and what price range you're looking in.

    Some areas Rightmove dominates, others it doesn't.

    If you're looking for country houses or estates, then Savills, Knight Frank etc might be the place to look, since these don't tend to be Rightmove fodder....

    mmm beg to differ. My house is up for sale with savills and it is on rightmove. oh! and it isn't an country house or an estate, however I suppose I do live in the country and on an estate but don't think that is what you meant was it?
    Smile though your bank is breaking:)
  • chickmug
    chickmug Posts: 3,279 Forumite
    http://www.teamprop.co.uk/index.aspx
    A retired senior partner, in own agency, with 40 years experience in property sales & new build. In latter part of career specialising in commercial - mostly business sales.
  • LizzieS_2
    LizzieS_2 Posts: 2,948 Forumite
    Find a list of all the agents in your area (yellow pages/Thomson Local) - check they all list on the websites mentioned. Any who don't - look up their own site.

    Drive/walk around the areas you wish to live in - some properties are being advertised privately.
  • crisp
    crisp Posts: 435 Forumite
    it would be great if your could search by keywords AND date listed.
  • TD5
    TD5 Posts: 57 Forumite
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    seabass wrote: »
    The only ones I know of are sites such as rightmove or findaproperty, any other websites just seem to have the same properties. Is there any other places I can look for more of a range?

    Thanks

    How about primelocation.com and propertysnake.co.uk
  • adg1
    adg1 Posts: 670 Forumite
    How about registering with the agents in the area you are buying in - some properties will not be on all the aggregator websites at all for a while - photos etc. You'll find out first about new properties. Also, not all agents use the aggregators as they have acertain limitations as to what agents can post on them by way of details - 360 degree views, interactive floorplans etc.
  • pie81
    pie81 Posts: 530 Forumite
    I found primelocation has a slightly wider range of agents in my area than rightmove. globrix is also worth a look. this will vary from area to area though.

    bear in mind that those kind of sites (a) don't catch all agents (the smaller agents re often not signed up to them) and (b) are not always up to date - meaning in a fast moving market properties can be under offer by the time they make it onto these sites.

    realistically the best way to look for properties is to register with all the local agents in the area you're looking - and get at the top of their "hot buyers" list to make sure they send you stuff asap.
  • sjcollett
    sjcollett Posts: 185 Forumite
    Why don't you try the sites which are used by private people - that way you will get a different perspective - gumtree and virtualletz.com have got a range of different properties which you don't get on the usual big boys websites
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