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What tools did you use to track and manage your house or flat hunt?
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Does anyone just call all the local estate agents and tell them what you're looking for?
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Obviously that is what potential house buyers did pre internet, and it would still be some people's preference. But if you have a dozen agents to phone/email or physically visit, that can take some time, whereas you can quickly see what is available in your price range/house type by looking at RM
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It genuinely never even crossed my mind to do this. Way too much of a faff when I can see all the properties for sale on Rightmove.
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Now that is interesting. You know that agents inform clients of properties they've been appointed before they post them on rightmove? OnTheMarket for example have a 24/48 hour exclusivity on properties they post, meaning other people can snap up properties before you even know they exist if you just use rightmove
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Yes but I didn’t need that when I was buying. The market wasn’t sluggish, but nor was it moving so quickly that things got snapped up that quickly. The house I bought had been on the market for several weeks when I made my offer for example.
In a fast-moving, sellers market I may have done it differently. But there was no need to.
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I viewed the house we bought the day after it went on Rightmove, appearing late afternoon. There had already been viewings from people already on the agent's list.
Make £2026 in 2026
Prolific £231.51, Octopoints £4.60, Tesco Clubcard challenges £38.80, Airtime £10 TCB £225.19, Everup £77.04, Roadkill £1.77, Zopa CB £30, Misc £10.11,
Total £629.02 31%Make £2025 in 2025 Total £2241.23/£2025 110.7%
Prolific £1062.50, Octopoints £6.64, TCB £492.05, Tesco Clubcard challenges £89.90, Misc Sales £321, Airtime £70, Shopmium £53.06, Everup £106.08, Zopa CB £30, Misc survey £10
Make £2024 in 2024 Total £1410 70%Make £2023 in 2023 Total: £2606.33 128.8%0 -
There's a new tool out there called HomeStretch - helps you manage the whole process from beginning to end, mostly tied to first time buyers I think
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I can't quite place it, but this thread has a kind of spammy / market researchy kind of feel about it, rather than it seeming like a genuine question.
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