making a counter offer for a house STC

Halle71

Our sale is going tits up now but, initially it 'sold' very quickly. We signed the EA contact on the Tuesday, there were two viewings on Wednesday night (handpicked by the EA) and we accepted an asking price offer at 11am on Thursday.

The photographs were taken on Thursday afternoon and it first appeared online on Saturday, two days after we accepted the offer.

But, as others have said, be nice and polite and maintain contact - 1/3 purchases fall though (ours did) so there is every chance it will be back on the market in a few weeks.

suziqqq

Dont rely on right move to find a house, they are nearly always sold when you call. You need to make yourself known to every estate agent in the area and call them frequently for updates. Good agents will inform you when they take on new properties that fit your criteria so you can view before it is advertised.

martinthebandit

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Karmas a git..........

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bylromarha

I think you're expecting EAs to work...

You're never going to get anything unless you're ringing the agents every day to ask if they have anything new to market with your requirements.

As you've found, EAs will take potential buyers to properties before they go on Rightmove, so how do you become that potential buyer with viewings? You bug the EA.

From the EAs perspective, why do they need to bother to ring you when they have 3 or 4 potential buyers ringing them and being proactive.

Completely wrong I know, but EAs are enjoying their comissions again and doing very little for a lot of cash.

So ring daily, get your face seen in the offices as much as you can and it should pay off pretty soon.

Thrugelmir

bylromarha wrote: »

Completely wrong I know, but EAs are enjoying their comissions again and doing very little for a lot of cash.

Why is it wrong? Only so many hours in a day.

Commission is only paid when the sale completes. Many fall through.

Plenty of time wasters go looking at property.

Zoology_Dragon

This kept happening to us, we live a five hour drive away from where we're relocating to so it was difficult to arrange viewings on short notice. It was so disappointing to keep missing out on houses but we stuck at it and had an offer accepted on Friday. At the time I was gutted that our viewings kept getting cancelled but now we've had an offer accepted I completely understand and would be devastated if we were gazumped as a result of the vendor/agent allowing further viewings.

Don't do it. You say you're disappointed that you can't even get to view houses so think how you'd feel if you lost a house because someone had swooped in with a higher offer after you'd started incurring costs.

gallygirl

We have (hopefully) sold a house recently. Estate agent called on Weds, 2 viewings on Fri, 1 on Sat and sold on Sat to someone the estate agent 'knew' would buy it based on it being exactly what he was looking for.

It appeared on RightMove with 'sold' already on it.

You can say it's because estate agents want an easy life, or that they don't want themselves, vendors and buyers to be inconvenienced by lots of viewings that lead to nothing.

Go into the agents, be very clear on what you want, i.e. don't say you want a 3 bed in town x, say you want:
3 bed in y or z areas of town x
new/established/Victorian etc
no work/cosmetic work/full refurb
large/small/only South facing garden
only houses with a bath rather than just shower etc

If you are specific then the right property will trigger calling you first.

Of course, they could just have made a simple mistake and missed you off the list.

thequant

gallygirl wrote: »

We have (hopefully) sold a house recently. Estate agent called on Weds, 2 viewings on Fri, 1 on Sat and sold on Sat to someone the estate agent 'knew' would buy it based on it being exactly what he was looking for.

It appeared on RightMove with 'sold' already on it.

You can say it's because estate agents want an easy life, or that they don't want themselves, vendors and buyers to be inconvenienced by lots of viewings that lead to nothing.

Go into the agents, be very clear on what you want, i.e. don't say you want a 3 bed in town x, say you want:
3 bed in y or z areas of town x
new/established/Victorian etc
no work/cosmetic work/full refurb
large/small/only South facing garden
only houses with a bath rather than just shower etc

If you are specific then the right property will trigger calling you first.

Of course, they could just have made a simple mistake and missed you off the list.

Spot on Post, I want to echo this from the view of a buyer. As I was recently one of those "favoured" buyers who was sold a property before it appeared on RM & Zoopla.


I registered with my EA in person, gave him a list of essential requirements & those that were desirable and flexible.


I viewed some and gave good feedback so he had a better idea of what I was looking for and got to know the EA. Also this allowed him to know I was not a time waster.


A property then came up, which the EA said didn't fulfil our critrea as it was a bit unusual, but was worth looking as he thought we would like it.


We viewed it within 1 day of it coming on the market along with 20 other viewers and the property had yet to hit the net.


We seen it, liked it, put an offer straight in.


From the buyer/seller perspective it was a good match up, as we were looking to make a very quick purchase and seller was looking for very quick sale.


If it was not for the relationship I had built up with the EA, I would not have received that last minute email on a Friday afternoon to go the viewing the next day.


Ultimately there is nothing sneaky about this, in London where demand is outstripping supply. Don't expect the EA to coming running to you.


Why waste time showing tons of people around, when they can cherry pick 10+ of the best buyers who they know they will get a sale from.

Jabberwk

I got quite a few viewings simply by asking, when I was told something was already sold, whether they had anything similar that they thought might interest me. Several times the response was 'well, actually yes. it isn't up online yet, but I can email you through the details. they're doing viewings on x so call back if you want to view it.' or 'yes. we don't have any photos or a floor plan available yet, but it's [insert description]. we can do a viewing tomorrow if you're interested.'

i also got to see a few places by going into the EAs office, asking what they had on their books at that particular point in time, and arranging a time within a few days to view four or five properties at once, driving round in their car. sometimes one place would have sold before I got to view it, but then they usually tried to substitute something else.

in the end, all the places we ended up putting in offers on were actually block viewings on a saturday, but at least one of those I only got to hear about because i'd phoned the EA about another property and asked what else they had that was similar. i think often you just need to be there, in person or on the phone, asking what they actually have in front of them at that specific moment. if they're bouncing back and forth from doing viewings, getting new properties on their books and dealing with incoming phone calls and people wandering in from the street, making outgoing calls is maybe going to be lower on their list of priorities.

tigsly

Whereas my experience of visiitng estate agents was teh exact opposite..

most - wrote me off.. told me there'd be nothing there for me I only had one polite enough to contact me - regularly - and bless him he didn't have a clue what iw as looking for - sent me on wild goose chases.. with bizare - totally not to my spec houses..


I have 2 friensd who got offered houses before they came to market and both were sellling their houses via the same agent..

Keep looking eventually the right house wll appear for you