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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.
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.