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By Miscellaneous
#1904154
lobstaboy wrote:True enough in the sense of certainty (I shouldn't have used that word)! But using a decent estate agent will dramatically improve your chances compared to using PB.

Sadly it is only with hindsight one can determine if the agent was good and even then that's often just a perception rather than being necessarily fact. :wink:
By avtur3
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#1904182
Miscellaneous wrote:
lobstaboy wrote:True enough in the sense of certainty (I shouldn't have used that word)! But using a decent estate agent will dramatically improve your chances compared to using PB.

Sadly it is only with hindsight one can determine if the agent was good and even then that's often just a perception rather than being necessarily fact. :wink:


Finding the right buyer for the right house is so much a matter of chance, sometimes the likes of Purple Bricks (or other low cost providers) will be in the right place at the right time to introduce compatible sellers/buyers. A successful outcome will result in those involved singing the praises of Purple Bricks. There are too many variables to be able to predict if the likes of Purple Bricks would be right agent for any particular property.

Personally I wouldn't use PB to sell a property, but I can understand why some might go that route. Given the existence of PB I think that can be used to negotiate an acceptable rate with more traditional agents.
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By Miscellaneous
#1904186
@avtur3, indeed, all a bit hit or miss. Even when one is satisfied with the price and purchaser it's never truly known that was the best deal.

My experience when buying and trying to get detail, or on some occasions a return call, is testament to that. The modern 'insistence' of not contacting the buyer/seller reinforces my belief. I'd much rather look people in the eye and shake their hand on a deal we agreed between us.

As for conveyancing, well same applies really, they have to be managed too. :D
By riverrock
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#1904194
The chain estate agents are only as good as the people in their local office. At least with Purple Bricks you should get a standard level of service.

When buying current house, we agreed price with seller before contacting the various others (Scottish system, so your lawyer submits a contract to their lawyer via estate agents...).

Seller then pulled out, asking for more, despite agreeing in person (turns out we had agreed price with wife, but husband (going through a divorce - hence sale, said no).
Handshake ain't good enough!

I don't understand why we are told not to directly contact the seller / buyer, so long as you don't say something stupid to them, or rely on something that hasn't been through the lawyers / is on paper. I guess it is to make sure the lawyers get their cut.

On conveyancing - I'd only use one of the factories for things like remortgaging as there isn't that much that they can get wrong...
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By Miscellaneous
#1904195
riverrock wrote:The chain estate agents are only as good as the people in their local office. At least with Purple Bricks you should get a standard level of service.

Since PB agents are self employed I'd suggest the same applies to standards being dependent on the individual. Maybe more so? :wink:

riverrock wrote:Seller then pulled out, asking for more, despite agreeing in person (turns out we had agreed price with wife, but husband (going through a divorce - hence sale, said no).
Handshake ain't good enough!

As far as being a guarantee it is as reliable as any paper contract. Handshake has the benefit of knowing what has been agreed is between the buyer and seller and has not been 'manipulated'. :D

riverrock wrote:I don't understand why we are told not to directly contact the seller / buyer, so long as you don't say something stupid to them, or rely on something that hasn't been through the lawyers / is on paper. I guess it is to make sure the lawyers get their cut.

The lawyers don't get a cut, they get a fee…generally.

Certainly the sellers of our current property paid dearly for not talking to us directly. :roll:
By rdfb
#1904378
Trent772 wrote:Got 4 quotes - around £750 - £850, all checked with no extras.

PB - £1250.......... :evil:

Anyone else had a similar rip off and did you resolve it ?


The biggest problemwith conveyancers is when things seem to be held up on them (or their counterparts) and there's seemingly nothing you can do about it. Meanwhile your chain is at risk of collapse.

So would I pay a few hundred extra in return for customer service? Absolutely. That might make the difference between sale and no sale.

If you compare on price alone you're driving the market towards awful customer service.

No idea how that applies to your quotes above, but you need to look beyond price.
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By Trent772
#1904385
I agree in principle, however this is a simple sale of a no mortgage, no chain apartment. My Buddy who has a significant portfolio of properties up North said it should be around £650.

To have PB quote twice that is just scalping.

We already paid them £1280 for estate agent fees as this got caught up in Brexit/Covid/Cladding etc etc.
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By Sooty25
#1904442
Cessna571 wrote:I think we just found out what profession the troll wants to move into when they grow up and get a job / have a family.
:lol:

Either that, or we found out what her Daddy does!


Presumably specialising in full insulated properties only and promoting moving using a horse and cart rather than nasty diesel burning vans!
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By Sooty25
#1904443
xr25688 wrote:Up north they want everything for nothing.

The fees you have been quoted are reasonable.

Move along.

Paying £200 in fuel to drink a luke-warm "coffee" and quaff a cold, soggy "ham" burger, then whinging about professionals earning a living from having spent years learning their trade to facilitate house moving smacks of "entitlement"... :lol: :lol:


Would you care to explain your emphasis of "ham"?
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By mick w
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#1904449
XR , I know not where your mummy buys her Burgers , but mine
contain only Beef , and I try to avoid them when I fly for Food .
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By Cessna571
#1904454
I’ve often wondered where you can you buy these legendary £200 Burgers?!

I think I’d actually like to try one.

I paid about that for a bottle of wine once, when my wife ordered without looking at prices. She tends to do that, as usually we are in the sort of establishments where it doesn’t make that much difference!

It could have been a lot worse!

I think our troll is an imposter.

Real hippies know that it’s all about the journey, not the destination.
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By Sooty25
#1904467
xr25688 wrote:
Sooty25 wrote:
xr25688 wrote:Up north they want everything for nothing.

The fees you have been quoted are reasonable.

Move along.

Paying £200 in fuel to drink a luke-warm "coffee" and quaff a cold, soggy "ham" burger, then whinging about professionals earning a living from having spent years learning their trade to facilitate house moving smacks of "entitlement"... :lol: :lol:


Would you care to explain your emphasis of "ham"?

That was your takeaway from my comment (NPI)?

There's no real meat in these things pilots pay £200 to eat - offal, detritus from the abattoir floor and sawdust. Yum.


Nowt wrong with a bit of offal, liver, kidneys, tripe, all staples of the true British diet, but I guess you'll be a vegan anyway so won't appreciate any of it.

As for the £200, I assume this is to do with fuel burn to get to our beloved burgers, well, I'm so sorry you are too poor to be able to just blow £200 (often each way) on a pointless jolly, but some of us can. If you think that's bad, you should see the fuel burn rate on my Sunseeker!