Estate Agents - Moving my potential buyers

domcastro

yes - I signed "sole agency" and they asked about my poster (it was a village!!!)

phoebe1989seb

domcastro wrote: »

It's just bad luck - but you should pay the fees. I was gutted a few years ago when I was selling. I lived in a village and just put a sign up in the local shop about my house being for sale etc. After 2 weeks, I then went with an agent. The very next day, someone called saying they had seen my advert in the shop window!! I directed them to the EA but I was gutted!

My FIL had a similar situation a few years back - he had a sole agency agreement and his agents were useless, introducing no-one to view his semi-rural property over a period of some months. He advertised locally in a shop and found a buyer through this method. His agent tried to claim the fee for introducing the buyer - who had no dealings with them, had no Internet so hadn't seen it on RM and had never been to the local town where the agent was based. My FIL with our help managed to prove that the EA had nothing to do with the sale and he paid no fee to them.

googler

david.jerwood wrote: »

I originally used an online estate agent to put my house on the market and paid a set one off fee upfront, after a while I also decided to use a high street agent who charge £2500 + vat on completetion.

My high street estate agent has now found me a buyer and I have accepted the offer ............. if they were to remove their offer and place it with my online estate agents as this would save me all my estate agent fee's?

My buyers have there own mortage provider and solicitors so would not need any communication with the current estate agent.

Are there rules against this type of thing? Any help anyone can offer would be much appreciated.

Rules? You mean in addition to the contract you signed with the high-street agent, in which you said, in essence "If you, EA, find me a successful buyer, I'll pay your fee"

How would you suggest the buyers withdraw their offer without "communication with the current estate agent". Telepathy?

Wouldn't it be funny if an EA reading this thread had a David Jerwood on their books......?

googler

LandyAndy wrote: »

The OP's only other post makes interesting reading in the context of this thread.:cool:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/859511=

and 4 years between them, almost....

devotee

domcastro wrote: »

yes - I signed "sole agency" and they asked about my poster (it was a village!!!)

Sole selling rights is different to sole agency - if sole agency you could have sold it directly and NOT given the commission to the agent.
Seems like you've made a mistake and introduced a buyer for your own house and paid the agent for it.

G_M

domcastro wrote: »

yes - I signed "sole agency" and they asked about my poster (it was a village!!!)

In which case you could have avoided the EA fee.

The buyer found via your personal poster was not introduced by this agent, or any other agent. Therefore a 'sole agency' agreement was irrelevant.

Doubtless the agent, however, gave you a different impression. I wonder why?

domcastro

lol lol even more gutted now!

devotee

Send them an invoice