Anyone got experience of online estate agents?

You share a building when you're in prison. Having your own house is way better.

They will normally tell you if there are already better offers - they are just not allowed to tell you exactly what they are. Remember the agent is working for the seller, not the buyer.

It's amazing how mnay people forget this. Including, sometimes, the agents.

In which case they should be informing me I have to make a higher offer, so the seller gets more.

There is no difference between those.

Me: "I offer =A3250K" Them: "Sorry, someone offered more than that, you won't get it." Me: "=A3260K" Them: "That's the best offer so far".

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Right Move's pricing tends to work on a fixed price per agent for as many listings as you like

this kind of makes it expensive to advertise a single property

They wont accept listing from individuals anyway, that is why the internet sellers have sprung up to fill the gap

tim

Nope. It was reformed a while back to make the different rates apply marginally rather than on the whole sum, but its still there:

So buy a place for £500K and you will have and extra £15K of stamp duty to find. (plus probably £1000 to £1500 for legal fees, perhaps £3K - £5K estate agency, another grand for moving etc, plus any mortgage arrangement fees etc)

I was watching HUTH last week

tim

No no no!

you share *everything* when you are in prison

including your arse

tim

IME, works for some

for others it is completely useless and after a few weeks/months of trying, they have to move to a "real" EA

tim

One thing you want the internet agent to do for you is to "accept and pass on" offers.

I saw a place that I quite liked but I felt that the price was a bit high.

I was reluctant to make a low ball offer direct to the seller, so didn't make an offer at all

tim

Oi

That's where I come from :-(

(you're right!)

tim

You can actually advertise your house on the likes of Gumtree. I dunno how successful it would be though. If I was looking to buy a house, I wouldn't think to look there. I'd just Google houses for sale in X, which returnes results form the likes of rightmove.

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Has it gone in Scotland perhaps? When I googled it, it said "England, W= ales, Northern Ireland". I did not pay this duty when buying my house.

I take it it's yet another tax.

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Raynes Park isa nice place to visit. But not worth 360K to live in a pr= ison cell.

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Oh dear, I appear to have turned you on.

It used to be nice. In 1975.

The Queen isn't exactly poor but shares Buck House with the Duke of York and the Earl and Countess of Wessex, and their offices and the offices for the Princess Royal and Princess Alexandra.

She doesn't even own the place.

Owain

That's a bit different.