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I don't know anyone who does that, it's all via online searches
If you are serious about buying in hot markets, where stuff goes under offer very quickly, one of the more unpleasant things you have to do is suck up to agents with big market share in the sort of property you are trying to buy.
It feels like if you just call up when you get the Rightmove alert you are already on the "B" list.
NickCJ-
definily, i found my place being on the estate agent's list and giving away precise criteria. One of which meaning that they first hand offer those to investors they know.
In the example i am giving, they don't have this property online yet.
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Echoing this. Clearly location and market dependant, but by the time properties have hit online searches they often have already been shipped to people agents know are interested/looking in a certain area.
We're informally looking for something slightly bigger near us and know of 4 properties all of which have sold before hitting Zoopla.
Glws
EstelleGetty
You talked to an estate agent to find the property you wanted to buy?
I don't know anyone who does that, it's all via online searches.
Automated platforms also suggest other properties when you view one, but say you're not interested. That algorithm is usually smarter than an individual estate agent and is more impartial (no sales-driven crap).