Mick Mac

What I thought we were doing here alex_b is not stating what we already know about estate agents, but what makes their offering different from Purple Bricks. You are focussing on why the traditional estate agent model might not work as well as its supposed to, we all know that, but its still different from Purple Bricks fixed fee, pay up front, no sale you still pay us With an established agent, the seller (customer) has a certain amount of control, and what he gets from the agent depends to some extent on how he excercises that control. There is no such control with PB.

Henry_17 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Why do you say a traditional agent is incentivised > to get the best price? >In this environment the agent cares far more about just earning a fee at all i.e. getting a sale done, which means a >more attractive price for the buyer / lower price for the seller. Surely that's the Purple Brick's model. We sell for a fixed fee, we get the same fee iresspective of price. > Why do you say a traditional agent is incentivised > to get the best price? Because they earn a bigger fee on a higher price (of course...) And they dont earn anything if they dont sell. At the end of the day the seller can walk away from a traditional agent at any time, for free, the agent therefore has to evidence to the seller that he/she is getting the highest possible price. For me there are far too many people on the PB reviews saying, "PB sold my house in 5 days....", well sorry but thats generally insufficient time to create sufficient interest in the property / have a number of intereated parties / negotiate with the buyer / and if more than one buyer have some competitive tension etc.

Can i come along pls Mike - sorry for v late notice.

The catch is presumably that you pay up front, or at least contract to pay. And I don't think you get it back if you change agents or take the property off the market.

Their TrustPilot is impressive, but to put it in perspective, Foxtons is too: TrustScore 8.9 out of 10

Great to have an option for people in that area, and looks like quite a cool setup, as opposed to a standard bar chain. Its a big space, so lots of options for how to set it up.

A friend recently did this journey to Stanstead and also got Victoria line from Brixton to Tottemham Hale (no changes, 25mins) and then pick up the Stanstead Express from TH i hadn't though of that before, but Liverpool Street is hard to get to so i had preasviously avoided Stansead completley as its a pain to get to, but might reconsider now.

Id use an agent. Not buying into the purple bricks thing myself. There isnt a right price, the agent works for you and should create some added value.

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I have a late afternoon Hospital Appointment on > Thursday which may go on a bit > as I have to have lots of tests.. > > I'm having problems breathing and > eating/swallowing. > > I am a doubtful maybe. > > Foxy Very best wishes Foxy.

RubyGraeme Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I am furious. Get a life. Jeez

We are indeed facing our first ever shortage of curry houses on Lordship Lane

4000 Boom

Should be good for this one. Thx

And what's your connection to this plan?

Blackcurrant Wrote: > > That assumes the estate agent has some degree of > control over the price achieved, They will in many cases. Once they have a genuinely interested party, they need to manage both the buyer and the seller to a price they are both willing to proceed at. If you don't believe the agent has any impact on price, then use Purple Bricks. But although you save on commission you could well be losing much more than that on price.

Zebedee Tring Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > On a separate but related issue, I am fed up with > the number of last minute platform changes at > Denmark Hill. This is the reason I ditched DH for Peckham Rye about 18 months ago. That station is a nightmare. Fortunatley i can get a bus to Peckham just as easily.

Ladharrbeinn Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > BUT wider point - there was no bus, or other > traffic there at the time. that's irrelevant. I stopped for a few > seconds to pick up an elderly woman. A ?130 fine - > again, more than two days wages for many - is > disproportionate, and imho is the council farming > its citizens rather than creating an incentive to > good driving. A ?20 fine would do that. it sounds like you could afford the ?20 fine in which case its probably not a significant disincentive. Its a lot of money so that people take it seriously. For buses to work effectively they need to be able to progress. Its a slow enough method of transport without people parking in bus lanes. What is a problem is that the road down the side of Denmark Hill station is now no longer available. It means there is nowhere really to drop off. The parking spaces along the road are always taken. Will thie road be reopening?

Ladharrbeinn Wrote: Fair enough

Unless you're DFS House Sales. Yes - there is that....

fishbiscuits Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > L16579 Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > I think there has been a lot of over pricing by > the local > > estate agents which hasn?t helped. > > This is what I can't work out. If the housing > market has stalled, why haven't asking prices come > down? Why are agents still putting on 2 bed flats > at 550K, 3 bed houses at 950K? About a third of the rightmove added in last 24 hours properties on any given day are shown as "reduced" - surely thats a reduction in asking prices.

Rooster Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > This Forum has become the OAP complaints forum! Rooster - just because you are up at the crack of dawn, doesn't mean everyone else wants to be Cock a doodle doooo

I was in Southwold at the weekend and the seagulls seem not to sleep at all. They make noise all night. I don't have anyone to blame. Think of me. Yes, 6 am seems a little early to be in the garden, and perhaps the parents are asleep at the front of the house thinking their little darlings aren't bothering anyone. Perhaps if it happened regularly your brain would block it out - like aeroplanes.

Who's playing?

I'm on hols then - have fun.

Thx - do you mean, being another meat liquour type outlet?