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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.
Glws-
Me too, a while back now but the agent knew we were looking for and that we'd had just had a purchase fall through, so he called us about a place that hadn't definitely come on the market yet but the owner wanted to test the waters. We viewed that day and offered on condition they didn't list it. So it never even got as far as Rightmove et al, never even got as far as the photographs being taken.
brokenbetty
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.