Browse Forums Real Estate Who Should the Real Estate Agent be Working For? 4May 04, 2006 10:40 am Bob Ward is a director of Lot 109 Pty Limited, a real estate agent training and public relations consultancy. Subscribe to free monthly e-mail newsletter, "The Lot 109 Letter", at http://www.lot109.com.au Re: Who should the real estate be working for? 5Jun 26, 2006 3:58 pm Wayne www.alphamortgagesolutions.com.au info@alphamortgagesolutions.com.au Contact us for a free consultation for advice on how to structure your loan for maximum benefit Re: Who should the real estate be working for? 14Jan 19, 2007 11:57 am Hi Liya.
Adverting/ marketing included; for sale sign (standard sign- not a special one featuring information on home/ photos) , internet, local newspaper, pamphlets etc. Jamie Re: Who should the real estate be working for? 16Apr 04, 2007 3:04 pm Sorry for dragging up an old thread, what have people paid in the way of commission to real estate in different parts of Australia? auctions are bad 17Apr 21, 2007 7:52 pm Liya Thanks so much for all your replies. This information is very useful and would be good for me to have in your mind before appointing an agent. I requested for a free market appraisal on the Ray White website and got a call back that same day. He asked me to provide him with some brief information of the house etc. I told him I MAY be interested to sell the property and currently meeting with different RE Agents to compare. He immediateley suggested we auction our house which I thought was weird because he hasn't even seen the house, and secondly he hasn't asked what my preference is. I told him ... no..no I would prefer to list it for sale, as I'm in no rush. Why did he suggest to put it up for auction? Are the houses sold easier this way? It's funny that I feel this way but the Real Estate Agent is the enemy to me lol. I think I just can't handle the thought of getting ripped off or played. Anyway, I won't be signing anything with any agent until I'm content. Thanks guys for all your advice Very smart move! Yeah, this "auction" thing, is really a construct of the real estate industry used to rush a sale. The Real Estates are interested in one thing and one thing only, that is seller's big fat commissions from sales. That is their #1 concern. The auction is just a show, pushing the buyers and sellers coming to an agreed price in a much shorter time frame than may necessarily have been wanted from both the buyer and sellers, as the agents just want the commissions, and they want them now! I found this really insightful blog really putting the Real Estate industry underneath a fine tooth comb http://www.australianrealestateblog.com.au and learnt a huge amount about real estate agencies in Australia. Having read a lot of the material from this blog, I'll definitely be keeping real estate agents at arms length in any transactions. 2 4463 I had a similar issue with my fridge not too long ago. It wasn't the same model, but the symptoms were pretty much the same: the compressor would start and then stop… 3 5168 Okay sorry silly me, my wife has solves the mystery for me. It’s because the labels on the ports are all wrongly positioned by the builder hence it confuses me. 2 920 |