Estate Agent

Herzlos

20122013 said:

Do buyers get bothered if the seller changes agent?

I doubt any buyers will care if the agent changes, especially if they are bad agents. 

I'm not sure what you mean by there being no other agents, there are usually a few covering any area. It may be worth seeing if there's a local community facebook group to ask for agent recommendations. 

20122013

Herzlos said:

I'm not sure what you mean by there being no other agents, there are usually a few covering any area. It may be worth seeing if there's a local community facebook group to ask for agent recommendations. 

Agent A has said to wait for another 6 weeks and see what the market will do - normally I would but Agent B (sales rep) is not motivated etc 

I have spoken to a most of the agents in my area hence I am with my current Agency and had hoped Agent A will also take this property on but now they cannot, I don't think Agent B will do anything different.

Sightly off topic, if a listing says ' this property has been removed by the agent'  that does not mean it has been SOLD, does it? 

lincroft1710

It could mean the agent is no longer acting for the vendor or the vendor no longer wants to sell the property

artyboy

ReadySteadyPop said:

Bigphil1474 said:

Unless these are specialists properties at the higher end of the market, the high street EA's a re pretty much ten a penny. Realistically, most of their buyers will be walk ins (physically or figuratively), either from a shop window or Rightmove. There won't be many in the current market who have long lists of buyers sat around waiting for your property to go on the market and fulfil their every dream.

Assuming it's not a high end property, 2 viewings in 3 weeks suggests that either the listing is poor, the price is way too high, or there's just low demand for the type of property you are selling (or possibly a combination of all of them).

We must have had 20+ viewings on our house when we sold it last year, about half done by the EA and half by me. The first and second time we sold was to someone I showed round. When we viewed other properties, it was always the ones with the owner where you found out more about the property. I'm not really sure of the value of EA's to be honest, other than they can filter out the waste of timers, and help with the process. 

I would go with price too high and demand dropping in many areas.

Yes, because that is always what you go with. Please change the record. Or just turn it off.

20122013

The agreement from the EA I am looking to instruct, is this standard ? and the paragraph reads: 

'Contract
If any part of this contract is held unenforceable or invalid the remaining parts of this contract shall be enforceable and valid. This agreement shall be subject to the laws of England & Wales.'