Estate Agents Job

Floxxie

VIGILANT22 wrote: »

Do you think you have just been unlucky in your choice of agent?....When you consider this is an agents job, that's how they pay their mortgage..and the agent (I hope) will have sold a considerable more properties than you yourself have....However it is yr choice....Just a shame agent doesn't come up to your expectations particularly when yr footing the bill...

The agent's job is not 'to sell a house'; it is their job to introduce prospective buyers to your property. There is no agent in this world who could persuade me to buy a house - I decide what house I am going to live in, but they can suggest particular houses based on what you have stipulated your needs to be; that is what sets a good agent from a bad agent who just sends anybody around or sends out irrelevant details out.

VIGILANT22

The agents job is indeed to sell a house, regardless of the "sales techniques" involved.............That is why they have been instructed!

The agent is a selling agent, the contract the vendor signs is based on a SALE...regardless of semantics.......

mufi

VIGILANT22 wrote: »

The agents job is indeed to sell a house, regardless of the "sales techniques" involved.............That is why they have been instructed!

Actually, IMHO EAs act in a very similar way to a dating agency by introducing people to each other - a very valuable role, although perhaps not quite as valuable as the price they put on it, and not one that can be easily replicated without using an EA.

Houses sell themselves - nothing anyone says or does makes any difference, provided the agent is competent at matching the right purchasers with the right buyers.

VIGILANT22

Maybe they should charge an introduction fee...instead of SALE of property

petunia100

googler wrote: »

How many viewings has your agent done for you?

For how many of these have you been present, and/or following them round, looking over their shoulder, whatever...?

4 with this agent, but I'm talking not only talking about the experience with this agent but others in the past. I haven't followed them around or looked over their shoulder but have overheard the conversation when they are downstairs and out in the garden and been surprised that the viewers haven't known it was chain free.

petunia100

VIGILANT22 wrote: »

and who sold that house?...the agent or you?

In that instance the house sold it's self but it was a completely different market. In this market we need all the help we can get i.e a good agent.

VIGILANT22

So why are you using an agent if nobody has come up to your standards/expectations............just do it yourself!

petunia100

googler wrote: »

How many viewings are we talking about here?

Only 4 so far, but that's why I wondering about their role as I don't want them to carry on as they are.

petunia100

Chinkle wrote: »

The estate agent may have told them some of the details about the property in the process of securing a viewing, or why driving them to the property.

I have found most estate agents keep fairly quiet so the prospective buyer can focus on looking around and only answer questions when asked. A lot of people don't want an aggressive sales pitch. As long as he/she is able to positively answer any questions the buyer has, I wouldn't worry.

Maybe but they have always turned up separately and I have been surprised to find out when I mention at the end of the viewings that they don't even know it's chain free, which can be a big selling point.

petunia100

mufi wrote: »

Houses sell themselves - nothing anyone says or does makes any difference, provided the agent is competent at matching the right purchasers with the right buyers.

I agree, but it must help if the viewers are aware of all the details.