It's for sale but heard nothing from estate agent

clutton_2

""i told them to warn the viewer we were under offer and therefore any offers would have to be in excess of."

what would have happened about your canine "garden-occupier" had this gone ahead ?

googler

tyllwyd wrote: »

I think you have got a point. Yes, if the EA has a list of people who have expressed an interest in a particular type of property, the EA should have contacted them. (OP - the EA may have done a mailing - why not ring them up ask?) But having done that, if there is no-one who has rung back to express an interest and ask for a viewing, then the EA can't go out into the street and frogmarch people around your house.

The fact that the OP is selling in Scotland has a bearing on this too - in certain areas of the country, it's become accepted practice for the owners to do their own, open, viewings, typically Thurs evening and Sun afternoon, where viewers turn up unannounced.

If all or most of the agent's previous and current properties are viewing by this method, the EA has no idea who's passed through the property, unless the owner takes names and phone numbers.

How will they build up a list in this scenario?

Also, how is the OP's agent handling viewing? He/she went to market Monday 4th - is he/she waiting for viewers to phone the agent to book viewings, or yet to have first viewing 'session' ...?

tyllwyd

googler wrote: »

... How will they build up a list in this scenario? ...

My experience is all in England, but I'd say that Rightmove etc also have an effect - back in the olden days, we looked in the local paper but also visited local estate agents to get on their lists to be sent details. Now, I'm looking on the internet, and I would only contact EAs if there was a house I wanted to view. So potentally, there are lots of people actively looking who aren't necessarily on an EAs list. (I miss that, it was much more exciting seeing details arrive through the letterbox rather than just appearing on an website.)

googler

OP - if your agent is a member of one of the SPCs - ESPC, GSPC etc - has your property appeared therein, and is it tagged as 'New'?

henpecked1

clutton wrote: »

""i told them to warn the viewer we were under offer and therefore any offers would have to be in excess of."

what would have happened about your canine "garden-occupier" had this gone ahead ?

i am trying to discourage viewings from the new EA for this reason also i have to try and appease them as they want to market till exchange. unless of course someone comes in offering 10k over, i will stick with the current buyers who seem pretty keen.