fish4homes etiquette guide to keep house buyers cool, calm and collected.
At last, summer has arrived! Temperatures are soaring around the UK and over the sunny period, fish4homes, the UK’s leading property website anticipates a cool eight million searches will be made by property hungry house hunters on their website alone.
Dabbling in the housing market can be a frustrating game and with the sun beating down hard on our backs, it’s no wonder the stress of finding the perfect property leaves house hunters a little hot under the collar. Unfortunately estate agents are most likely to bear the brunt of heated house hunters’ rage despite their words or wisdom and experience of the property purchasing process.
In a bid to save our sanity and lend a hand to the enduring estate agents, fish4homes.co.uk has created the definitive etiquette guide to beating the home buying blues. Based on feedback from some of its estate agents who contribute to providing 330,000 properties, and feedback from some of the 1.2million fish4homes.co.uk customers, the guide highlights the top ten tips in using your agent to your advantage.
The ‘Agent Handling Handbook’ for customers:
1. Specify when you’re available to view – when you’re available to be called! Agents hate someone who can’t be contacted
2. Get yourself financially checked – i.e. agreement in principle – chat to a financial adviser
3. Return the agent’s phone calls!
4. Make sure partners are present at viewings i.e. decision makers
5. Try not to cancel viewings last minute – agents hate upsetting their vendors
6. Ensure that you register as much detail as possible with the agent, so that you can be contacted at any time so you won’t miss out on property
7. Always give timescales
8. Check out lease/freehold details and how the management companies work for buildings you are potentially interested in
9. Check out conveyancing solicitors and have one in place so that you can provide details quickly should you want to move forward with a property
10. Clearly specify your property requirements
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