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After spending what feels like an eternity looking for somewhere, making offers, and being lied too, I can confirm the estate agents here are as reptilian as any other part of London
Oh do tell. What happened?
We have friends who just bought there, sounded reasonably painless.
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Just the usual shenanigans.
We had gazumping. A lot of “we’ve had an offer 5K under asking, and if you offer the asking price we’re certain you’ll get it”. Discrepancies between EA and seller stories regarding PP and building regs. General poor/slow/protracted communications. There’s plenty more, but we have been looking since we moved back to the UK a few years ago. They weren’t all like this, but I’d say over half were.
The EA branch manager for place we eventually bought was a thoroughly obnoxious prat who behaved like he was negotiating on the apprentice. In fairness the rest of the staff we’re nice, and the manager had “moved on” by the time things got going again two months ago.
TBH I was expecting this hassle. However, it doesn’t happen where my wife is from, so having to explain all this agro and seeing her disappointed many times over made it all more stressful than it should be.
esstee
We’ve just bought and moved into a place in Northfields. After spending what feels like an eternity looking for somewhere, making offers, and being lied too, I can confirm the estate agents here are as reptilian as any other part of London.