Buyers agents: Know they're not recommended but hear me out. And property ombudsman scheme question

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JMA74 said:

i've worked in many estate agents offices over the years for different companies and the one constant is that they always rolled their eyes whenever one of these property experts called to ask to be informed about new properties. And the details were very rarely saved.  

Estate agents make a lot of money by pitching and selling other services to buyers.  Whey would they waste time dealing with a buyers agent and not even be allowed to speak to the buyer in the first place?  They'll just call someone else. 

The only time this works in my experience is either:

1.  Land and/or significant renovations (cant sell to the open market, selling agents like to have someone they can just call and pitch it to someone who will have a buyer of some sort for it)
2. High High High Value properties that dont hit the general market.    Standard agents wont do this as the whole point of their business is that they want to be seen to list and sell the high value properties.   They dont want to do deals under the table as no one will see that they have done a good job

Apparently the majority of those kind of properties are now advertised on Radio H-P, not that anyone on here will be getting on there though!