Estate Agent Help

Posted: Tue Jun 5, 2018 8:59pm

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craig245t

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I'm a little confused about the way estate agents work.

I'm told if i register with more than one estate agent it causes all kinds of issues and i may not be able to view certain properties. This sounds a bit iffy?

Heres what we've done so far.

Met with one agent face to face to discuss our needs but not viewed any properties at that time, we weren't ready. We returned home.

From the UK, emailed various agents to ask the street specific properties were located on. This was to rule in/rule out these properties. Very frustrating but many are described as Playa Flamenca but were in fact La Florida and even Los Altos.
We now have a short list of properties we may wish to view in July (assuming they're still for sale)

Does this mean that we are now registered with the agents we've contacted by email and they are the only agents we will be able to view those properties with? If so, this means that we will need to meet 5 or 6 different agents to view our shortlist - we'd rather deal with just one.Any advice based on experience gratefully received.Craig

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Posted: Wed Jun 6, 2018 9:21am

Kelvin1960

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Posted: Wed Jun 6, 2018 9:21am

Great response from Kimmy.

I would add one further point. When we had agents showing us round, we would sometimes drive past a town, and we would ask "what is that town like?"

The agent would say something like "you won't want to buy there ... it is an awful place".

Since moving here, we have found that some of those "awful places" are really quite nice, so we suspect that the agent was diverting us away from them simply because he/she had no reciprocal arrangements with agents selling in those areas.

So ... if you are interested in any particular town, pick an agent in that town.

Best wishes

Posted: Wed Jun 6, 2018 1:28pm

craig245t

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Posted: Wed Jun 6, 2018 1:28pm

Many thanks for the replies and for confirming what we thought - we have inadvertently registered and will need to view the properties with them.

We've met 3 lawyers and chosen 1 so no problem there.

We may have experienced what your talking about kelvin, one agent who responded to my enquiry told me that the "pink and yellow" or "Battenberg" houses which are quite common in the area suffer from dampness because they are badly built. Now they may well do but it sounded odd and I checked - he didn't have any of those on his books but sent me a list of what he had.

Looking forward to viewing......

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Posted: Thu Jun 7, 2018 8:37am

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Posted: Thu Jun 7, 2018 8:37am

Re the damp thing ... you probably know that most houses here have concrete frames with block infill walls (and a decorative render or tile finish).

Some houses have single skin block infill walls (not a cavity wall construction).

A few months ago I was chatting with some people who live in a single skin house - they had condensation in winter, and preferred not to situate furniture up against their external walls. They used a dehumidifier.

This seems to be borne out by Leroy Merlin (the equivalent of B&Q) who seem to sell lots of dehumidifiers during the winter months.

I have never been inside a Battenburg house, and I don't know if this comment is applicable - just another thing to think about when buying a house.