Whykay's happenings

Them Estate Agents... *grrr*

Estate agents (EAs) whine on how the property crash is affecting them, their multi-million Euro houses are not selling as well as they hoped for their clients, well boo-hoo for them. Are they actually worth their salt? Given that I am actively looking for a house, I have contacted numourous EAs (as they seem to be the main ones updating daft.ie and myhome.ie) and apart fro the odd reply of someone getting in contact with you, that's about it really. I really don't want to drop into the EAs offices just so I can enquire about property which I just viewed online, and supposed handy services online to contact agents to avoid me dropping into them in the first place. What's the point? They are not doing their jobs. I was making excuses right up to Christmas for them, EAs are working fewer days, EAs were being let go, early holidays, etc. Now it's halfway through January, and there is no let up in disappointments on the lack of return calls.

I have to say, I'm not the only experiencing this EA-ignoring-potential-clients-just-because-of-their-cockiness, my father-in-law (apartment hunting) found that he would get promises of return calls, even when he rang them up. These were big name EAs like Lisney.

In this climate, I know people would not be sympathetic to us property hunting, in my circumstances, I have been scrimping and saving with my hubby to get to a stage where we have our own desposit for a house. We avoided the crazy you-must-be-on-the-property-ladder business the last few years. It just feels the right time for us, as finally, the wait is over.

The problem is, can we actually get any vendors or EAs to return our calls? I would have thought this would have been the lesser of two evils, the other one is talking to mortgage advisors.

Posted by whykay at January 19, 2009 12:02 PM