Can you prevent your sold price showing on sites like Mouseprice?

Idonex

There must be a way. The house we just bought has no price on any of those sold price websites. It's registered with Land Registry as i downloaded the entry - there's no price paid on it though and i know they didn't buy it through an auction or reposession.

diable

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyl5DlrsU90

eschaton

If the agent was right then how was he being nasty ?

If he was quoting a price lower than what you expected then it's maybe he knew realistic achievable prices where you were hoping for the best / better.

It's not a crime to admit you were wrong and he was right.

whitesatin

Gwhiz wrote: »

So agent was spot on and now you're !!!!ed off. Get a life!

You can always rely on some pr@ for an agressive response to a light hearted post.

As it happens, it is not the fact that he is right that annoys me so much as the fact that he has pestered the life out of me on the phone and been very, very rude. Perhaps I will drop him a link to these forums, he would feel quite at home.

whitesatin

eschaton wrote: »

If the agent was right then how was he being nasty ?

If he was quoting a price lower than what you expected then it's maybe he knew realistic achievable prices where you were hoping for the best / better.

It's not a crime to admit you were wrong and he was right.

Of course it is not a crime to admit if you are wrong. As it happens, I know we could have got more but just want to move on.

How is he being nasty? By constantly pestering me on the phone and having a very unprofessional attitude despite the purpose of his phone calls being to get me to put it on with them. Daily phone calls saying, "See, wasn't I right? Didn't I tell you what you should market it at? You owe it to us to put it on with us now, don't you think?" It would be the last agent I would go with should my current sale fall through.

Interestingly, he has never been rude to my husband.

whitesatin

diable wrote: »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyl5DlrsU90

Thanks for the link, good song, I will pass it on to the would be agent.:)

dopester

whitesatin wrote: »

You can always rely on some pr@ for an agressive response to a light hearted post.

As it happens, it is not the fact that he is right that annoys me so much as the fact that he has pestered the life out of me on the phone and been very, very rude. Perhaps I will drop him a link to these forums, he would feel quite at home.

Look at it from the EA's point of view. They need properties on their books they can successfully sell, which actually get viewers and interested buyers. Any EA can find it easy to win instructions from sellers with a high valuation, but which is unlikely to sell at that asking price.

Smarter EAs are coming to realise they have to be realistic, and it is the key to their businesses surviving and prospering.

It's better for them to get their 1% fee on houses they can actively sell at a realistic market price of £150,000 and sell 4 houses a week (£6,000)... rather than 1% of an fancily overvalued house at £200,000 and sell only 2 a week (£4,000), or perhaps sell none at all for weeks at the higher, very optimistic asking price.

"Pestering" might have been a smart EA wanting you to get ahead of the curve, with a realistic market price, to successfully sell. I believe we're going to see more instances of sellers chasing the market down. Instead of listening to a smart EA and pricing to sell, we'll see more instances of sellers reluctant to do so, but over months and years, end up lowering their asking prices much further below what the smart EA suggested.

Gwhiz

whitesatin wrote: »

You can always rely on some pr@ for an agressive response to a light hearted post.

As it happens, it is not the fact that he is right that annoys me so much as the fact that he has pestered the life out of me on the phone and been very, very rude. Perhaps I will drop him a link to these forums, he would feel quite at home.

You may THINK I'm a pr@ but I think your OP shows you definitely are one. Being pestered my an EA and you feel the need to tell all on a forum - ah diddums!!!

whitesatin

dopester wrote: »

Look at it from the EA's point of view. They need properties on their books they can successfully sell, which actually get viewers and interested buyers. Any EA can find it easy to win instructions from sellers with a high valuation, but which is unlikely to sell at that asking price.

Smarter EAs are coming to realise they have to be realistic, and it is the key to their businesses surviving and prospering.

It's better for them to get their 1% fee on houses they can actively sell at a realistic market price of £150,000 and sell 4 houses a week (£6,000)... rather than 1% of an fancily overvalued house at £200,000 and sell only 2 a week (£4,000), or perhaps sell none at all for weeks at the higher, very optimistic asking price.

"Pestering" might have been a smart EA wanting you to get ahead of the curve, with a realistic market price, to successfully sell. I believe we're going to see more instances of sellers chasing the market down. Instead of listening to a smart EA and pricing to sell, we'll see more instances of sellers reluctant to do so, but over months and years, end up lowering their asking prices much further below what the smart EA suggested.

I really can't fault what you say, it makes sense. However, as you would imagine, I get a degree of pestering from lots of agents but the majority are at least pleasant in their manner. Believe me, I know when someone is being over the top rude. At least I have the choice to not use him, thankfully.

arby

my first thought was the OP was being ridiculously childish, however, if the EA really is calling up every day then he wins in the childish stakes. That's very unprofessional. He may call up one of his clients every day with updates, they would even appreciate that, but to call up a prior contact so often is just weird.