Hi,
First to acknowledge message from Administrator Clubman regarding comments regarding House Price Speculation being banned from AAM Discussion Forum. Here are a couple of issues that I wish to get feedback from other FTB's if I can.
1. I have been looking to purchase a two bedroom second hand house (terraced and end of terraced) in the Dublin North area's in particular Santry and Whitehall for about 6 months or so. Twice I have been the highest bidder as informed by the EA handing the sale of the houses. However on both sales the vendor has withdrawn the house from the market with the reason given that they have not being happy with the highest price being achieved. One lady went with another EA with the result that the house was again advertised on a popular house buying website for a higher price. Actually on this particular occassion I was able to view the same house being advertised for two different prices within a couple of pages of each other...on the house buying website. The second occasion the vendor sold the house to a friend of his...
I am wondering if other FTB's are having the same type of experiences that I am, with regard to being the highest bidder only still not getting any success in making their purchase?
2. My second query and request for feedback is concerning the display of identical property being advertised on many house buying websites. I don't want to name these websites here in my post as I understand this is against posting guidelines. However aside from the example given above which I was directly involved...there are other examples of not only different houses being advertised for big differences in prices and rougly in the same condition and on almost identical address....but also apartments being advertised for almost 50 grand differences in prices and these being located within the same development and sometimes the same floor as well??
My particular question is focused on how are FTB's determining what bids to place on these types of properties. I have asked the EA's that I have been talking to explain to me why identical properties are being advertised for such a huge difference is prices and have been told that they cannot comment on that as the other property would be part of the portfolio of another EA company etc.. This I have checked myself and can confirm that this has always being the case. It seems to me that the different EA companies use different selling strategies to sell property and to achieve the highest prices for their clients.
I could post a couple of links to these advertisements to back my comments up...but first maybe an AAM can clarify if I am allowed to do this?
First to acknowledge message from Administrator Clubman regarding comments regarding House Price Speculation being banned from AAM Discussion Forum. Here are a couple of issues that I wish to get feedback from other FTB's if I can.
1. I have been looking to purchase a two bedroom second hand house (terraced and end of terraced) in the Dublin North area's in particular Santry and Whitehall for about 6 months or so. Twice I have been the highest bidder as informed by the EA handing the sale of the houses. However on both sales the vendor has withdrawn the house from the market with the reason given that they have not being happy with the highest price being achieved. One lady went with another EA with the result that the house was again advertised on a popular house buying website for a higher price. Actually on this particular occassion I was able to view the same house being advertised for two different prices within a couple of pages of each other...on the house buying website. The second occasion the vendor sold the house to a friend of his...
I am wondering if other FTB's are having the same type of experiences that I am, with regard to being the highest bidder only still not getting any success in making their purchase?
2. My second query and request for feedback is concerning the display of identical property being advertised on many house buying websites. I don't want to name these websites here in my post as I understand this is against posting guidelines. However aside from the example given above which I was directly involved...there are other examples of not only different houses being advertised for big differences in prices and rougly in the same condition and on almost identical address....but also apartments being advertised for almost 50 grand differences in prices and these being located within the same development and sometimes the same floor as well??
My particular question is focused on how are FTB's determining what bids to place on these types of properties. I have asked the EA's that I have been talking to explain to me why identical properties are being advertised for such a huge difference is prices and have been told that they cannot comment on that as the other property would be part of the portfolio of another EA company etc.. This I have checked myself and can confirm that this has always being the case. It seems to me that the different EA companies use different selling strategies to sell property and to achieve the highest prices for their clients.
I could post a couple of links to these advertisements to back my comments up...but first maybe an AAM can clarify if I am allowed to do this?