What info do an estate agency actually need

googler

Look at it from the seller's point of view.

You're going to turn up for a viewing, and go into all the rooms of their house, possibly their cupboards and attic too.

If, as is expected, you want to look around yourselves once the EA has shown you around, you'll then be totally unsupervised.

As a seller, I want to know who you are before letting you into my house.

Kittenonthekeys

googler wrote: »

Look at it from the seller's point of view.

You're going to turn up for a viewing, and go into all the rooms of their house, possibly their cupboards and attic too.

If, as is expected, you want to look around yourselves once the EA has shown you around, you'll then be totally unsupervised.

As a seller, I want to know who you are before letting you into my house.

Yes, careful vetting to safeguard the seller is essential and no genuine buyer should object to that.
However, that does not automatically give an agent carte blanche to spam said buyer to kingdom come, especially after they have been asked to stop.

Smodlet

We must have dealt with half a dozen EAs when searching for our last house. We were looking for a specific type of property in a specific price range in a very specific area. Of all these EAs, one, count it, one actually listened to what we wanted. We were sent details of properties miles outside the far end of the city, the last places we would have considered.

One EA was relentless and very unprofessional. It was not until I threatened to report them to the OFT and to their head office that they finally stopped and this was long after we had actually moved and were no longer looking! EAs are one of the lowest forms of life on the planet.

Good luck with your search; hope it is trouble free going forward.

PokerPlayer111

Smodlet wrote: »

One EA was relentless and very unprofessional. It was not until I threatened to report them to the OFT and to their head office that they finally stopped and this was long after we had actually moved and were no longer looking! EAs are one of the lowest forms of life on the planet.

Buyers and sellers need to stop using traditional EAs as much as possible its bad for the eco system. Im doing my bit using postcards to potential property i want to buy and will use doorsteps since fees are £99 to sell. I will buy a property cheaper this way since seller doesnt have EA fees and sell with much less fees.

The EAs are also taught to infiltrate your social media which i find pretty low. We've got them on this forum attempting to control the narrative.

C_Mababejive

They are mostly vultures. Crooks in smart cars. The Arfur Daleys of the housing industry who's sole aim is to line their own pockets by whatever devious means possible.Never trust an Estate Agent.

robatwork

Mutton_Geoff wrote: »

I would be very disappointed if my estate agent showed people round my property who they hadn't properly qualified. I'd want full traceable contact details (disposable email and PAYG mobile not good enough)..

Do you think an EA with their vast technical training and required qualifications (none) has the ability to determine a throwaway email or PAYG mobile number?

In fact how about you say whether a @gmail.com or @hotmail.co.uk email is disposable? I can create one in about a minute and a half, yet lots of people I know use one of these as their permanent and only email address. Are they to be denied viewing a house?

And how would you find out if a mobile number was PAYG?

Can't wait to hear your beginner's guide to being a good EA.

robatwork

C_Mababejive wrote: »

They are mostly vultures. Crooks in smart cars.

This is wildly unfair to estate agents.
Some of them drive Minis.