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Which websites do you look at when buying?
Doozergirl
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I live in quite a rural area and am putting my house on the market with two agents, neither of which advertise on the two bigger sites that I use when looking for a house.
One contract is signed; the agent is the bigger one in the area, very professional, the village branch doesn't advertise nationally though. The other agent is coming tomorrow; they have better sized ads in the press and they advertise on a national site I'd never heard of until now. At the moment I'm not sure if we should go with a larger agency in town in order to get better coverage. Trouble is, I feel a bit sorry for her as she's just taken the place over, but on the other hand don't feel comfortable with using three agents!
Question is, what websites do you look at when buying? (I'm secretly hoping you will all answer with hers!)
I live in quite a rural area and am putting my house on the market with two agents, neither of which advertise on the two bigger sites that I use when looking for a house.
One contract is signed; the agent is the bigger one in the area, very professional, the village branch doesn't advertise nationally though. The other agent is coming tomorrow; they have better sized ads in the press and they advertise on a national site I'd never heard of until now. At the moment I'm not sure if we should go with a larger agency in town in order to get better coverage. Trouble is, I feel a bit sorry for her as she's just taken the place over, but on the other hand don't feel comfortable with using three agents!
Question is, what websites do you look at when buying? (I'm secretly hoping you will all answer with hers!)
Everything that is supposed to be in heaven is already here on earth.
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rightmove and fish40
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rightmove.co.uk0
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Ditto with Woby on that. Asserta home doesn't have a great search facility for the area you want to look at if you don't have a specific postcode.
Which one does she use - then I might look on it?0 -
Rightmove, Fish4 and Primelocation.0
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For a quick look at what's around, RightMove, Primelocation and at a push, Home Sale Network.
I prefer to look at each EA's own website as this tends to be more up to date and contain more information than is available on the portals.
When I was looking for a place, I viewed lots of houses and funnily enough, most of them were with EAs who do not use RightMove. I might have had to look harder to find the property details, but it was worth it in the end!
Serious buyers will find out who all of the EAs in an area are. Personally I think sites like RightMove are a starting point but after having gone through the sale/purchase process, I don't think it is as important as I thought it was before I started.0 -
Well that's answered the question! Nobody mentioned them. They use https://www.teamprop.co.uk - they're basically a network of franchises from what I've gathered. Much like Your Move I s'pose without such good branding.
What do I do then? Stick with these two, dump one and swap for someone that uses rightmove.co.uk or go with three agents??
eurows - were you pointing me at something specific or just the forum?Everything that is supposed to be in heaven is already here on earth.
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Judging by his other posts I think eurows was just making a political point on behalf of those who don't view property websites - at least not until prices crash at least 30%!
Teamprop, or at least some EA's in it's chain, do use RM or F4H because I've gone through to their site from one of those - I think RM. Trouble with TP site is you have to register to see full details of a prop and that must put some people off.
If your buyers are more likely to be local than from outside the area I think both high st presence and good regular ads in local property papers are more important than being on RM. Local buyers will probably know local EA's websites anyway. RM etc are better for people like me looking for a prop in another part of the country.0 -
findaproperty, rightmove, vebra"enough is a feast"...old Buddist proverb0
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