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Opinions on £1000 Cashback Please
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My EA provides a £1000 scheme to buyers if they use the EA conveyancing, which effectively comes off the price we get for our house. But of course we can account for that when deciding if we can afford to accept an offer.
Our house is going to be selling for around £180K in the south east, so is a good candidate for first time buyers. My feeling is the cashback might well be attractive to first time buyers, who will likely be struggling to scrape up their deposit. Seems probably worth our while to go with the cashback offer therefore.
Any thoughts please?
Our house is going to be selling for around £180K in the south east, so is a good candidate for first time buyers. My feeling is the cashback might well be attractive to first time buyers, who will likely be struggling to scrape up their deposit. Seems probably worth our while to go with the cashback offer therefore.
Any thoughts please?
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So you end up paying the £1000 and the agent get a cut from the conveyancing?0
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Very much an over simplification. All that counts is the bottom line, and if the cashback can attract more people in so my sale price is at least £1000 better than I would otherwise have got? Agreed the agent benefits too, but I don't care a monkey's if (and it's the "if" I'm asking opinions about) it gets me a better price to at least cover the cashback.david29dpo wrote: »So you end up paying the £1000 and the agent get a cut from the conveyancing?Favours are returned ... Trust is earned
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For a FTB, £1k cashback is nice - but I wouldn't really like to go with an EA's conveyancer. They will be working for the seller and I could potentially lose more than gaining £1k from the house sale.
Personally I woul avoid/decline an EA's recommended conveyancer.0 -
Me too, unless I convinced myself the numbers made it worthwhile.overandout wrote: »For a FTB, £1k cashback is nice - but I wouldn't really like to go with an EA's conveyancer. They will be working for the seller and I could potentially lose more than gaining £1k from the house sale.
Personally I woul avoid/decline an EA's recommended conveyancer.Favours are returned ... Trust is earned
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overandout wrote: »For a FTB, £1k cashback is nice - but I wouldn't really like to go with an EA's conveyancer. They will be working for the seller and I could potentially lose more than gaining £1k from the house sale.
Personally I woul avoid/decline an EA's recommended conveyancer.
Sorry but this is wrong
A conveyancer works for his client. If you are the buyer then the conveyancer works on your instruction. It makes no difference if they are recommended by someone else or are required in a process.
If a friend recommended a conveyancer you wouldnt expect them to take instruction from them rather than you would you?
The EA's conveyancer will be part of the same group of companies nothing more. The fact that they will get a referral fee will make head nor tail of difference to you or the service you receive£2 Savers Club #156!
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To me that makes good sense.LisaLou1982 wrote: »Sorry but this is wrong
A conveyancer works for his client. If you are the buyer then the conveyancer works on your instruction. It makes no difference if they are recommended by someone else or are required in a process.
If a friend recommended a conveyancer you wouldnt expect them to take instruction from them rather than you would you?
The EA's conveyancer will be part of the same group of companies nothing more. The fact that they will get a referral fee will make head nor tail of difference to you or the service you receiveFavours are returned ... Trust is earned
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LisaLou1982 wrote: »Sorry but this is wrong
A conveyancer works for his client. If you are the buyer then the conveyancer works on your instruction. It makes no difference if they are recommended by someone else or are required in a process.
If a friend recommended a conveyancer you wouldnt expect them to take instruction from them rather than you would you?
The EA's conveyancer will be part of the same group of companies nothing more. The fact that they will get a referral fee will make head nor tail of difference to you or the service you receive
My friend will not have any vested interest to the property, the EA does. My friend wouldn't really earn anything from the recommendation, the EA possibly does.
As I said, personally I wouldn't go with a conveyancer that is recommended by the EA. As I wouldn't go with a mortgage advisor recommended with the EA.....0 -
Wouldn't touch it with a barge pole as buyer or seller. But then I strongly disagree with the idea of an EA mortgage advisor and I disagree with EA's providing services to Buyers. It muddies the waters - buyers think that the agent is working for them. Agents have an interest in weeding out buyers who will not take their services.My EA provides a £1000 scheme to buyers if they use the EA conveyancing, which effectively comes off the price we get for our house. But of course we can account for that when deciding if we can afford to accept an offer.
Our house is going to be selling for around £180K in the south east, so is a good candidate for first time buyers. My feeling is the cashback might well be attractive to first time buyers, who will likely be struggling to scrape up their deposit. Seems probably worth our while to go with the cashback offer therefore.
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Very much an over simplification. All that counts is the bottom line, and if the cashback can attract more people in so my sale price is at least £1000 better than I would otherwise have got? Agreed the agent benefits too, but I don't care a monkey's if (and it's the "if" I'm asking opinions about) it gets me a better price to at least cover the cashback.
Its always a good idea to keep things simple when EAs are involved.0 -
The cashback has to be revealed to the buyer's lender so it is just a price reduction. In terms of price negotiations on a £180K property £1K isn't all that significant - a buyer might offer £5K less and the haggle is whether they end up getting £3.5K or £1.5K off.
Depending on who the agent's pet conveyancer is and their ability to slow down/speed up the transaction, you might even be better off offering to reduce the price by £1K if they don't use the agent's convenaycer!RICHARD WEBSTER
As a retired conveyancing solicitor I believe the information given in the post to be useful assuming any properties concerned are in England/Wales but I accept no liability for it.0
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