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I registered with some agents
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LittleMissAspie wrote: »One has sold, the others are still there. I don't like anything else on Rightmove and hardly anything new is coming on. I'm not sure that the market is really busy because my search results are returning about 120 properties, it used to be more like 200. Just have to wait I suppose.
What is the advantage to registering?
If they have your details, they send you details of houses more quickly than they put the details on RM. Sometimes they even sell a house direct to someone on their database without listing in on RM at all.
Agents vary a lot in how much they will tailor what they send to what you have told them you are looking for. One of the ones round here sends me quite a lot of details, mostly near misses but not bad. Another sends me an enormous list of everything they've got in my town, which makes me wonder why they bothered asking me how many bedrooms etc I wanted.
ETA Many agents are hopeless about taking properties off RM. More than once I've contacted an agent about something, only to be told "Oh we've sold that already".Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.
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nollag2006 wrote: »Yes - you need to register, and to keep chasing them. They didn't come back to you because the market is really busy at present.
The houses you looked at may well be under offer already. If you are going to find the house of your dreams, you need to be a bit more proactive
weird i registered with an agent.. and like OP they have been giving me nusuance calls.... left 2 answer phone messages and rung 4 times total.. when i finally told them i was no longer property hunting.. just to stop em.
They were desperate to get me in to their office even to talk about mortgages....0 -
LittleMissAspie wrote: »We viewed 4 houses with 4 different estate agents before Christmas and they haven't even asked us for feedback
Do we need to register formally with estate agents? How do we do that and what's the point when everything is online anyway?
Whether you register depends upon a lot of things, but assuming your search is conventional, it does no harm. Some agents are incredibly lazy and won't bother to attempt a genuine link between your wants list and new property on their books, while others probably would, but are too dull to have the cross referencing abilities. Finally, there are the good ones, who will. Being regularly in agents' line of vision may therefore help you.
In any event, you may be showered with vast amounts of paper, yet after making visits, as you've found already, these can be followed by earth-shattering silence! This is direct evidence that people aren't doing their jobs....and that includes the vendors.
With 40 agents + Rightmove etc bookmarked, and about 8 counties to cover, we took the attitude that registering with all of them was a waste of time & paper, especially those who kept office ladies out on the front desk while they got on with the 'important stuff' in a back office. However, most agents we dealt with got properties onto the Internet PDQ, so living at a distance and unable to pop in, we were not usually at a big disadvantage. With Multimap, Google Earth etc, we were also able to write off 90% of property on a first scan, so that was a huge improvement over the bad old days of vague details and a couple of murky photos.
In the end, we bought a property without ever meeting the agent, except on the phone. That was no accident, mind; he was not a nice person.
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Okay I've done an email via Rightmove to 57 agents. I think some might be missing from their list though so I'll check that out at the weekend and register with some more if necessary.
Lol one phoned already and we're going to see some properties on Saturday, but he can't send me details about them yet because they're still going through the HIP process...0 -
LittleMissAspie wrote: »Okay I've done an email via Rightmove to 57 agents. I think some might be missing from their list though so I'll check that out at the weekend and register with some more if necessary.
Lol one phoned already and we're going to see some properties on Saturday, but he can't send me details about them yet because they're still going through the HIP process...
Sounds promising - best of luck with it. It's a good time to buy0
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