Owning your own home

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NickCJ in reply to @JonoMarshall

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.

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EstelleGetty in reply to @NickCJ

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.

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Bobbo in reply to @EstelleGetty

I think that part of this is traditional estate agents holding back properties from Zoopla etc. to justify their fees. There have been a number of properties near us recently that have had the sign etc go up 2 weeks before they appear online.

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