Does it irritate you when the price is not listed?

Expected price missing is annoying, but it is topped by lack of address & even worse is when the agent does not respond, or evades these direct requests for that info, or whom never answer phone etc.

There are a number of agents that do this in certain areas, usually I just ignore all ads by them.

Other ones that annoy are... Express sale..... express my rear

A new one I have seen recently, is Red Alert...... Red to me means, stop.

Basically, these evasive things are a red flag to never use them, they often do the vendor a dis service, no doubt about that.

 

Ah! Thanks Dan but I'm on an Apple iPad. What's the apple process for this?

 

One of the most useful posts on this forum ever!

 

Wow

59 Hedderwick Street Essendon Vic 3040 - House for Sale #123513226 - realestate.com.au

This house for example is listed as $2.7 Million. Best trick ever. Thanks heaps

 

Sorry mate, no idea. Just tried to work it out on my iPhone but there was no love .

 

Yep, it is the time thing, apparently annoying lots of people is a good business idea

In regard to database, yes, that is what they are up too, ironically I have found a loty of agents will call 6, 12, 18 months later to enquire if you are looking for a property still, I may be odd, but this is even more annoying, for me I would not deal with anyone so obstructive, that is I suppose unless they threw an amazing deal at me (never happened, not once).

Must work for them, can't imagine so many doing it if it did not work out for them, not sure how they measure this though.

 

Just remember this is hidden search price which will typically be less than the actual expected price.

 

This is the best, thanks. No more bothering agents with the price guides for Auction properties!

 

If you only use an iPhone/iPad to browse, you could use an app called 'View Source'.

 

This is happening a lot in Hobart ATM. Very annoying! As if agents aren't annoying enough already!
Anyone help me with the "source code" trick on an apple device?

 

Find out what browser (prob safari on apple) and search for how to reveal source code.

 

Yeah & the listing sites enable agents to do this sort of thing.

I also bet they think this will avoid any under quoting probs.

 

Thanks for this. Very helpful.

 

Just a heads up to all this doesn’t work anymore, well for me anyway.

I found a way to get around it is to search for “minPrice” in the source code and it shows up min/max price range. The ranges are wide, some I’ve seen with a 500k difference between min and max price. I guess they do it so the property gets more hits when people search by price.

 

Yep has been removed in past few days by looks

 

This is exactly what I was talking about, the hidden search range is typically lower than the expected price..

E.g. 500k on hidden search 700k expected sale or whatever numbers you wish to use

 

I think you now have to search for the word "price:" and it will give you a range that the agent put the price in for.

For example price:"600k_750k"