Friday, Aug 21, 2009
Amateur speculators
Agents Diary blog: Our Survey Says - Monday
A blog that claims to be an insider's description of the estate agent's trade comments about future house price trends.
Posted by quiet guy @ 08:46 PM (676 views) Add Comment
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1. quiet guy said...
There's another post by Secret Agent earlier this month as well that caught my attention as well:
http://agentsdiary.blogspot.com/2009/08/repo-man-monday.html
Has anybody ever heard of this happening in the UK?
2. Macleod said...
god what an annoying load of drivel that was.
3. paul said...
"‘I’ve got Mr Wilkie on line two,’ interjects negotiator S gently. ‘Wants to know if he should put his price back up after something he just heard on the radio. Says he thinks his flat is too cheap now. What should I tell him?’
The options are endless; sadly most of them ultimately involve the Job Centre. Against my better judgement, I tell Mr Wilkie whatever he wants to hear."
That's your problem, right there. Agents being lapdogs to their clients - instead of offering advice that sellers need to hear, he tells them only what they want to hear.
The outcome will be that the seller won't sell their property at the higher unrealistic price (unless of course, he rings back again to lower his price when he hears something negative on the radio - which I doubt).
Consequently, I'd say the option this estate agent currently chooses - to tell sellers whatever they want to hear about the market improving is the fastest route to exercising his job centre options.