Agents and private selling
Aug 28th 2012, 2:15 pm
#16
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Joined: May 2006
Location: ex ex-pat, in Taunton
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Re: Agents and private selling
I've just done a search, and the site we used is no longer there. We had our house up with 6 different agents, only one sent any viewers, and they sent about 8 before we withdrew it because we had sold privaely and already got a deposit.
Aug 28th 2012, 8:34 pm
#17
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Joined: May 2008
Location: Marinaleda, Sevilla
Posts: 223
Re: Agents and private selling
I would never pay money to those sites to advertise. Everyone I know who has used them have never sold through any of them. We have sold 5 houses in Spain and except for the last one, which we sold to a relative, never managed to sell any privately. We paid for ads in Sur, advertised on free websites but all we got were timewasters. We used VIVA to sell 3 times and got quick sales (this was when houses were selling). They did have a sole agency agreement if required, but there was an option at differing commission levels.
A friend sold a house privately whilst signed up to a sole agency and they claimed their commission. When my Daughter sold she was still seeing it for sale on some websites a year later.....by Agents she had not listed with
A friend sold a house privately whilst signed up to a sole agency and they claimed their commission. When my Daughter sold she was still seeing it for sale on some websites a year later.....by Agents she had not listed with
