One or two agents

petunia100

I am coming to the end of my contract with my present estate agent and would like to put my house with another agent.

I can't decide whether to have one or two as I would like to sell quickly.

Apart from the extra cost would it be a bad thing having 2 agents?

Cannon_Fodder

It smacks of desperation - if you are desperate, if might be the thing to do. Why not 3?

Why 1 appearance on Rightmove might not find a seller, but 2 would, eludes me.

I note from your old thread, you priced £10k below the EA valuation. https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2476575

If the EA got it wrong by £10k, you are simply pricing it at the average level.

To sell quickly, you may need to be more obviously competitive compared to other properties for sale.

delmar39

If you get the right agent you only need the one. Why has your current agent not sold? Have you had many viewings? Is there a problem? Assess why you haven't sold and take it from there.

Gwhiz

Where I am it makes sense to use 2 because they seem to have different clients and I know that one, although brilliant at selling, often !!!! people off so won't be used by a certain proportion of potential buyers.

delmar39

Gwhiz wrote: »

Where I am it makes sense to use 2 because they seem to have different clients and I know that one, although brilliant at selling, often !!!! people off so won't be used by a certain proportion of potential buyers.

Good point. Along similar lines I'd go for an EA who has sold a lot of properties similar to yours. Get them to demonstrate to you how they will sell your property based on what they've achieved in the past.

petunia100

Cannon_Fodder wrote: »

It smacks of desperation - if you are desperate, if might be the thing to do. Why not 3?

Why 1 appearance on Rightmove might not find a seller, but 2 would, eludes me.

I note from your old thread, you priced £10k below the EA valuation. https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2476575

If the EA got it wrong by £10k, you are simply pricing it at the average level.

To sell quickly, you may need to be more obviously competitive compared to other properties for sale.

I've reduced it by 20,000 now, as I realised that they had way overpriced it and I'm very annoyed about it as all they did was waste precious time putting it on the market too high to serve their own greed, as their fixed price commision was based on the value of the property.

petunia100

Cannon_Fodder wrote: »

It smacks of desperation - if you are desperate, if might be the thing to do. Why not 3?

Why 1 appearance on Rightmove might not find a seller, but 2 would, eludes me.

I note from your old thread, you priced £10k below the EA valuation. https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2476575

If the EA got it wrong by £10k, you are simply pricing it at the average level.

To sell quickly, you may need to be more obviously competitive compared to other properties for sale.

I don't understand your comment about Rightmove. I'm more interested in the fact that it would be 2 mailing lists and shop fronts as opposed to 1.

petunia100

delmar39 wrote: »

If you get the right agent you only need the one. Why has your current agent not sold? Have you had many viewings? Is there a problem? Assess why you haven't sold and take it from there.

I've had many viewings but they overpriced it which wasted a lot of time. They always send their newest member of staff which have been very young and had no selling skills. The people they send are often looking for something totally different to our house and on one occasion they even sent someone for who they had no contact details. They have lied on numerous occasions and been very rude at times. Also their photo's were crap.

petunia100

delmar39 wrote: »

Good point. Along similar lines I'd go for an EA who has sold a lot of properties similar to yours. Get them to demonstrate to you how they will sell your property based on what they've achieved in the past.

How do you know if they've sold similar properties to yours, can you view their records?

SimonMrGreenWard

Only ever need one agent. It's a complete myth about buying lists of agents being different, they all have the same people registered.

Fact is, nobody cares who your agent is, it's all about how your property is marketed on Rightmove.

Get a few agents round and have them produce a set of details prior to signing up, whoever does the best job, so long as you like them, go with them. State your position clearly and consider putting a low guide price to encourage lots of viewings and hopefully you'll still get fair money and a quick sale.

Good luck.

In response to the poster on having two shop fronts - everyone goes on the internet. Paper advertising and big shop fronts are there to attract sellers, not buyers.

petunia100

SimonMrGreenWard wrote: »

In response to the poster on having two shop fronts - everyone goes on the internet. Paper advertising and big shop fronts are there to attract sellers, not buyers.

Unfortunately that doesn't seem to be the case round here, I hardly know anyone who uses the internet - seriously they are afraid of it.

Can you explain why shop fronts and paper advertising attract sellers and not buyers?