Once you have decided on an area should you tell every estate agent you can find that you are looking so you don't miss any opportunities?
Selling off market or privately doesn't always mean the seller is trying to hide the price! We've just sold privately and it had nothing to do with that! It just happened nicely for us and having sold a couple of years ago with an agent, we were delighted to avoid them this time!I'm wondering why off market sales are a thing given that people will obviously become aware that a transaction took place and the property price register will give the price.
but do some legwork yourself as there's houses out there you can maybe get that would never hit the market.
How did you do that without talking to agents?
Do the legwork to know about salesHow did you do that without talking to agents?
Yeah, I'm not from that side of the country so dealing in smaller areas! That would be tricky. But you know what Ireland is like, somebody always seems to know somebody else! Ask friends/relatives if they ever hear anything about a certain area...we heard about a house that way, now it didn't pan out as owners decided to keep & rent it. Two weeks later as luck had it, we went sale agreed on another close by. That house was never going to the market. A bit of luck was involved sure, but we were also on the hunt for about a year in a specific area. No agent was involved (aside from the vendor having a valuation, which we agreed with).It'd be difficult to get plugged into areas like Dundrum to get to a point where you would hear about potential sales before they hit the market.
I’m glad this thread popped up. This is something I’ve wondered about too. We contacted loads of agents and almost always the properties where just about to go sale agreed, it became frustrating. When I would ask about private sales many agents eventually, reluctantly, told us about them. Will caveat that I’m not looking for new builds or new estates & for some reason I’ve a penchant for enquiring about probates unintentionally...
Why would an agent have an issue with a potential buyer inquiring about probate?
The shouldn’t in theory, I think that particular agent just didn’t like being asked so many questions on the first viewing. I had been warned by a few long time property buyers that if the agent didn’t know if probate had granted then that should send a warning. How’s your hunt going? We are about to go sale agreed on an executer sale but it’s a site as opposed to an actual demise and it’s far less of an ordeal as the only other bidders are a couple of small time developers who have a bottom line and we don’t pet se as we’ll build to suit us so it’s a lot more straight forward.Why would an agent have an issue with a potential buyer inquiring about probate?
It would be great if Ireland brought in a 'Vendor's Declaration' similar to those of some Australian and American states.
But, we're all well too shady for that type of transparency...
It would be extra security and would obtain some factual answers with regards to planning permissions etc.
Makes the vendor appear more honest
It would be great if a property ad had to come with an engineers report
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