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chewmylegoff

MissMotivation wrote: »

The reason that EA's won't disclose an offer to another party is nothing to do with the DPA (I wonder if most have actually read and/or understood it TBH). It's so that one party doesn't have an unfair advantage.

When dealing with multiple offers on a single property, the only fair way to deal with them is to ask for best and final offers in writing and then let the Vendor decide who to sell they property to.

they wouldn't have an unfair advantage if everyone was told what everyone else had offered. of course that wouldn't result in the best price for the vendor, which is why it is all done in secret. it's nice that you try to make it about being "fair" to the buyers though!

trolleymate

I don't think googler is an estate agent, estate agents work hard to sell your property, not spend all day on forums.

Definition for "GOOGLER" from the urban dictionary :
A person that uses google during work all day and then provides useless facts and links to waste other people's time as well.

new_home_owner_3

trolleymate wrote: »

I don't think googler is an estate agent, estate agents work hard to sell your property, not spend all day on forums.

Definition for "GOOGLER" from the urban dictionary :
A person that uses google during work all day and then provides useless facts and links to waste other people's time as well.

yes he comes on here a lot, i reckon that must definately make him a estate agent.....

If anyone posts about housenetwork or any online agent he his in like a flash slating them......

MissMotivation

chewmylegoff wrote: »

they wouldn't have an unfair advantage if everyone was told what everyone else had offered. of course that wouldn't result in the best price for the vendor, which is why it is all done in secret. it's nice that you try to make it about being "fair" to the buyers though!

I'm in two minds as to whether you are being sarcastic.

The EA's job is to get the best price for their client....which is the Vendor. I've always tried to be fair and treat others as I would like to be treated. I'm not saying that ALL EA's follow this principle but that's how I've always worked.

new_home_owner_3

trolleymate wrote: »

A person that uses google during work all day and then provides useless facts and links to waste other people's time as well.

youve met him then?

trolleymate

new_home_owner wrote: »

youve met him then?

Yes, nothing to concern yourself with, googler does add some interest to threads but with relatively little substance. Usually he absconds to another thread when he has exhausted his google searches.

new_home_owner_3

every traditional estate agent that i had, when they came round yes we accompany viewings not once did they ever do this, and then i had dodgy viewings from people who where very clicky with our estate agents, they couldnt praise them up enough.....

Then i had the ones chasing me for documents when my offer was accepted, i ran around for them and they said we wont show it to anyone else and they was still taking people around viewing, we got gazumped but it was the best thing that ever happened to us, we offered 180,000 and someone who they shown the house offered 195000, so i dont blame the vendor.

Then the cheeky bxxxxxxxds phoned me up and asked if i was interested in viewing a property i told them to do one...

ljbnotts

Might be obvious but actually let people look at the houses your selling! We have been trying to book an appointment for over 2 weeks now and apparently they have no viewing slots avaliable at all, at any time, on any day.

We are really interested in this house and it will be my 2nd viewing and my fiances 1st, if we like it we will make an offer, not being able to view it is frustrating and makes me wonder why people pay estate agents to sell their houses when they don't actually allow people to look at them!

trolleymate

ljbnotts wrote: »

Might be obvious but actually let people look at the houses your selling! We have been trying to book an appointment for over 2 weeks now and apparently they have no viewing slots avaliable at all, at any time, on any day.

We are really interested in this house and it will be my 2nd viewing and my fiances 1st, if we like it we will make an offer, not being able to view it is frustrating and makes me wonder why people pay estate agents to sell their houses when they don't actually allow people to look at them!

Estate Agencies are finding it difficult to adjust to the slight upturn in property buying in my area due to closing too many offices and laying off agents when times were bad. A lot of agents seem to have found new careers and looking back may see the downfall of the traditional estate agent. There are many other cheaper alternatives to sell property.

MissMotivation

trolleymate wrote: »

Estate Agencies are finding it difficult to adjust to the slight upturn in property buying in my area due to closing too many offices and laying off agents when times were bad. A lot of agents seem to have found new careers and looking back may see the downfall of the traditional estate agent. There are many other cheaper alternatives to sell property.

I couldn't agree more!