Joint Estate Agency?

Iconic

We are thinking of going multi agency to try and get a sale.

One of the agents we rang would only take it on a Sole or Joint Agency basis.

I have read about the disadvantages of multi agency but isn't Joint Agency worse? One agent could do nothing to sell the house and yet get half the commission!

Do two EA's ever agree to Joint Agency?

Myown

They don't agree to do it, but they still do! The home I want is with 3 agenencies, Ive told them as all prices were different too! They all said we dont do that, yet they then reduced the price to the lower valued one
Well, ive made an offer, rejected, mmmm if I go to a different agent and he accepts, he will have to pay 2 agent fees

Doozergirl

I don't ever see the point in joint or multi agency.

Market your house correctly with one agent. Make sure your details look great and that your price is right. If you aren't happy with one agent then change to another but I'd just try and choose the right one in the first place by looking at what else they are selling, how they are selling it, whether they have plenty of houses recently under offer.

I do my shopping on rightmove. I don't need to see it twice, just once with a decent pic! More than one agent suggests desperation and most viewings these days come from the internet and from the for sale board outside, not from walk ins where if they're doing one agent in town, they'll be doing all of them anyway.

I just don't see any benefit and you will pay a higher fee for having more than one agent.

Iconic

Doozergirl wrote: »

I don't ever see the point in joint or multi agency.

The way we see it is, the more viewings you have, the more likely you are to sell.

You make some very valid points for a sole agent but we are going to give multi agency a go and think the extra half per cent will be worth it if we get a sale!