Unit next door to mine is for sale. Well presented, well marketed, very reasonable price expectations (8% below the advertised price of another unit in the building for sale, and 5% below an offer that was made on that other unit recently). Asked the agent how the sales campaign is going so far after two weeks. “Nothing. Not a single enquiry or anyone through the door”. “Really?” “Yeah. Nothing” Sign of the times? That was mildly refreshing. I’ll bet if I was an interested buyer he would have said there’s lots of activity. Perhaps when looking to buy just say you’re a sticky beaking neighbour with no interest and you’ll get the honest truth.
One time I went to an open and it was dead quiet. No intention to buy, I was a neighbour. Ended up just talking to the agent for the 30 minutes about the property market while the house was open. Seened like an honest guy. Anyway, the following week, I was driving to go to my sister's house for a visit. I like to see opens so we did that on the way. Yes, again, no intention to buy. Here was this same agent, but wow, the house!!!! My partner and I really liked it. So we made an offer on it. Later, the vendors accepted our offer. I guess there was no better offer, but we had to wait 3 weeks before it was accepted. Anyway, I feel the agency worked for us.... as a buyer, I was happy. Agency would have been happy as they got a sale. Definitely a more buyer friendly agent than I've seen for many others, for sure.
Yeah, one of the houses I bought a few years back had an interesting agent - maybe because we popped in for a look (not really intending to buy) and he was listening to the sound of crickets (NOT the cricket!) It was one of those POA ads - which in Melbourne usually means "don't bother - we are asking for a lot". Anyway, as you do, we asked the "so how much is the vendor looking for?" question... He started talking and I noticed that with every sentence he spoke, the asking price kept coming down .... It's been on the market a while (we knew that), the owner was needing to go back overseas urgently (thank you for the info!), people aren't really interested ().... Sold.... The Y-man
I wonder why the vendors didn't just put a price on it? Because clearly the current strategy wasn't working.
I'm from the Sutherland shire and been dealing with a particular real estate agent that I think is honest. So they do exist... or maybe the same person
