Note through the door from another agent

googler

As we can see from the above, them saying they have an 'offer' is sufficiently vague as to mean either;

They've received an offer for your property, or
They have an 'offer', or promotion, running

The latter could mean 0.1% off their regular fee.

The former is improbable, to say the least. You're listed with Agent A, someone contacts Agent W, and says "I'd like to make an offer for that property that Agent A has for sale". Really? When Agent W doesn't have any form of contract which entitles them to market the property, accept an offer, or claim any fee.....? And when the buyer could easily contact Agent A...?

MadelinesMum

I get at least two letters a week and a guy from ha*rt phones and emails me a least once a week. I've also had an EA cold call, actually knocked on my door.

Running_Horse

There's this house I absolutely love on the market with agent A but I prefer agent B, so have decided not to use Rightmove any more or make any offers until the silly vendor breaks their contract with agent A and moves to agent B for my personal benefit.

Sound credible?

vuvuzela

Running_Horse wrote: »

There's this house I absolutely love on the market with agent A but I prefer agent B, so have decided not to use Rightmove any more or make any offers until the silly vendor breaks their contract with agent A and moves to agent B for my personal benefit.

Sound credible?

The 'offer' won't be an actual offer from a buyer, it will be an 'offer' or 'promotion' the agent is running.

Cuilean

Interesting viewpoints, thanks everyone for the input. I won't ring them - I tend to agree that the "offer" is indeed that of a "We'll save you money" as opposed to actually having a buyer with readies.


For those of you who've asked why we've not changed from Agent A, things are up in the air at work for both me and the husband just now - he's up for a promotion, and I am looking at a transfer or redundancy, so we're hesitant to do anything until something is definite. The fact that no offers have come in have played to our advantage.

pinky28

I'm looking to buy and one of the nicer EAs often phones us when someone has asked them for a quote for their services. They tell us the street, how many bedrooms and if it's in our range or not. If we are interested obviously they tell the vendor which could sway them to go with that EA. Obviously we haven't bought one of these yet but I would say its obvious the agent has a customer on their books who wants that style of house.

That being said though, if your house has been up for months it's safe to assume the people on their books have seen it on Rightmove if it fits their criteria and ruled it out.

Yorkie1

Cuilean wrote: »

I assume that if (Big if!) there is a buyer, there'd be nothing to stop us giving notice to Agent A.

Except that Agent A were, essentially responsible for introducing the buyer to you because it was their advertising, so you could face an argument from / between the 2 EAs for a fee.

googler wrote: »

The former is improbable, to say the least. You're listed with Agent A, someone contacts Agent W, and says "I'd like to make an offer for that property that Agent A has for sale". Really? When Agent W doesn't have any form of contract which entitles them to market the property, accept an offer, or claim any fee.....? And when the buyer could easily contact Agent A...?

I agree. If you saw a house you might be interested in, would you really go to a different EA and make an offer through them - in all likelihood without even seeing the property? This second agent is stringing you some porkies.