annoyed with our estate agents

gazter

jillybobs wrote: »

Mine has been up for 4 months and not one viewing. House is only 10 years old, modern neutral decor and we put it on £10,000 less that two exact same houses sold for last summer. Estate agent blames it on four new developments being built in our town and the incentives people get there. Our development is in much nicer area and we did put house up for £25,000 less than agent advised us. Your agent sounds great compared to ours lol

Did you use the agents who sold the two houses last summer?

A house five doors down was sold by agent A. We had a range of agents call round, A didnt give the best pitch, but understood the situation better then the others. So went with agent A.

My immediate neighbour (the other half of my semi) had been on for three months with agent B, one offer, well below asking price, my neighbour one further down with agent C. Been on since january, had two viewings no offers.

In the first ten days we had about eight viewings (i think), and an asking price offer, which has been accepted. My immediate neighbour dropped his price by £6,000 sold almost immediately at new price (to one of the viewers who came to look at mine and noticed his), and my other neighbour on my suggestion moved from agent C to agent A, and sold her house within seven days at full asking price.

In the age of rightmove, it seems incredible that the agent can make such a difference.

Ivana_Tinkle

I'd focus on the stuff you can control: if they said you were getting the premium listing, nag them to give you that. Immediately!

I presume they've now fixed the floorplan - if not, again, that needs doing immediately.

As for the other stuff, I can see the agent's point of view about not ringing the buyer again. Even the world's most rubbish agent does actually want to sell your house and get their commission, so if they won't ring them back it's reasonable to assume that there's no hope whatsoever of a higher offer. (Since it was the agent who spoke the buyer, not you, you have to trust them on this and assume that the buyer was v clear about this being their final offer.)

MrsRobbo17

Thrugelmir wrote: »

You've had 3 offers and turned them down..........

Ball is your court not the agents.

The agents aren't going to waste your time or theirs sending viewers round who aren't going to offer more. When there are plenty of other properties in the marketplace.

As a buyer I don't expect an agent chasing me to make higher offers either.

If the offers aren't right, they're not right. The agents are the ones who have valued the property and on receiving the offers have said we can get more but aren't advertising the house correctly.

At the end of the day its the seller paying the estate agent, not the buyer. I get calls off agents in regards to properties we've shown interest in. It's part and parcel of buying a house.

MrsRobbo17

Ivana_Tinkle wrote: »

I'd focus on the stuff you can control: if they said you were getting the premium listing, nag them to give you that. Immediately!

I presume they've now fixed the floorplan - if not, again, that needs doing immediately.

As for the other stuff, I can see the agent's point of view about not ringing the buyer again. Even the world's most rubbish agent does actually want to sell your house and get their commission, so if they won't ring them back it's reasonable to assume that there's no hope whatsoever of a higher offer. (Since it was the agent who spoke the buyer, not you, you have to trust them on this and assume that the buyer was v clear about this being their final offer.)

Thanks for your reply. I'd have thought if someone likes a house enough to put in an offer there's always hope, but I take on board what you're saying.

Yes the premium listing and floorplan have been remedied.

It just seems like it's one thing after another, the latest being they haven't tracked the offers we have had.