tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22726546.post3190756262557383375..comments2023-12-05T20:19:45.284+00:00Comments on 'Agents Diary': Storm Chaser - Tuesdaysecret agenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09349969960942971932noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22726546.post-75328826351080648042012-01-19T09:55:07.225+00:002012-01-19T09:55:07.225+00:00Congratulations on the top 10 finish in the websit...Congratulations on the top 10 finish in the website awards SA, get the mortgage man to release some funds for a pint!<br /><br />Barry Bonds <br /><br />http://www.simplybusiness.co.uk/knowledge/articles/2012/01/2012-01-17-landlord-property-2012-awards/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22726546.post-14490683909412583982012-01-16T09:16:06.741+00:002012-01-16T09:16:06.741+00:00Ah the words of the anonymous.
DJIA: who coulkd p...Ah the words of the anonymous.<br /><br />DJIA: who coulkd possibly have realised the corruption and partisanship with the reckless and the corrupt that we have seen by successive govts. However, it is finite. Even with the lowest int rates in history prices are falling, just. That will continue - at best. Then rates will rise again.jonathan davishttp://jonathandaviswm.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22726546.post-85985585851248618282012-01-15T22:57:33.008+00:002012-01-15T22:57:33.008+00:00Great (and funny) article as per usual. I wouldn&#...Great (and funny) article as per usual. I wouldn't bother with the HPC tunnel-visionaries. They've been 'lookers' looking for a house price crash for years with no joy. Keep it up SA.djia977http://www.asset-rotation-system.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22726546.post-72244032925057844172012-01-14T00:16:57.359+00:002012-01-14T00:16:57.359+00:00Not anymore Natalie. have you not noticed, prices...Not anymore Natalie. have you not noticed, prices are the same in London and SE as 4 years ago and 20-50% down elsewehere in UK?jonathan davishttp://jonathandaviswm.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22726546.post-90907044869935560512012-01-13T11:06:27.721+00:002012-01-13T11:06:27.721+00:00He may be a time waster but actually has a point t...He may be a time waster but actually has a point there too. People struggle and collect enough cash to buy and when the time comes they realize the price has escalated and you have to earn another year to two to be a victim of another price hike.Natalie Johansonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02023291442273063814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22726546.post-53729938368109972262012-01-12T00:26:32.471+00:002012-01-12T00:26:32.471+00:00Time waster fact.
Peado????Time waster fact.<br /><br />Peado????Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22726546.post-44036273629797566532012-01-11T23:31:56.934+00:002012-01-11T23:31:56.934+00:00Ahh the internet always brings out the worst in pe...Ahh the internet always brings out the worst in people. Never fear SA, we're with you until the bitter end/office closure!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22726546.post-70807487980059112842012-01-11T18:34:16.227+00:002012-01-11T18:34:16.227+00:00Oh I did... and they told me they knew about it (q...Oh I did... and they told me they knew about it (quite common apparently) but wouldn't do anything meaningful unless I could prove it. <br /><br />And by the way SA, I did forget to say I love your blog! It's nearly as funny as reading HPC :-)GDnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22726546.post-11261411073517749712012-01-11T17:14:20.396+00:002012-01-11T17:14:20.396+00:00Not really sure what your problem is Anonymous, th...Not really sure what your problem is Anonymous, the guy is a serial time-waster? Or do you just read what you want to read so you can have a rant? How is your subscription to the Daily Mail going?<br /><br />Opinionated Hunt, BerkshireAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22726546.post-23135948629663341432012-01-11T15:25:33.647+00:002012-01-11T15:25:33.647+00:00Love the way this mimimum wage gob-shite draws ass...Love the way this mimimum wage gob-shite draws assumptions on someone with money.... Can't be that the guy might have had a good job invested wisely and didn't get conned during his lifetime... No must be a misser! <br /><br />Judgmental cuntAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22726546.post-88080866958831595792012-01-11T14:23:37.493+00:002012-01-11T14:23:37.493+00:00Ha ha, great post. I found it pretty funny.
The ...Ha ha, great post. I found it pretty funny. <br /><br />The vast majority of HPC-ers have been on the wrong side of right for a very long time.<br /><br />- an HPC-er.scepticushttp://liminalhack.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22726546.post-30667495246463002672012-01-11T13:48:44.218+00:002012-01-11T13:48:44.218+00:00It's a shame GD didn't report the agents m...It's a shame GD didn't report the agents making up offers or the ones who refused to put them forward - Trading Standards would have been very interested:It's illegal. As for Anonymous' comment on agents taking back handers not to offer repossessions, they are pressed hard to advertise right to exchange of contracts & even advertise the best offer they have received. Again, go to Trading Standards.The Sussex Idlernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22726546.post-30853234011148528562012-01-11T13:39:02.444+00:002012-01-11T13:39:02.444+00:00Well, I post on HPC a bit, and was an EA myself fo...Well, I post on HPC a bit, and was an EA myself for ten years.<br /><br />EAs do try and sell at the highest price - as an agent it is your legal duty to act in the best interest of your client. That is the seller, not the buyer.<br /><br />It seems to me that SA knows the customer is right about the market and understands that more affordable prices would mean more sales and more commission, but does not like being insulted in his place of work. ho would?<br /><br />BTW, Me and the missus bought a house recently. All the local agents dismissed us as having unrealistic asperations, but we didn't care because we have the internet and can work RightMove.<br /><br />And it wasn't a repo or a probate, but it was a motivated seller.Timmnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22726546.post-258364335815681962012-01-11T12:33:13.605+00:002012-01-11T12:33:13.605+00:00Loving the debate! From my reading of it, I though...Loving the debate! From my reading of it, I thought SA was right to be dismissive as he knows the guy personally as a time-waster from previous experience - a new customer I imagine would have received a more positive service, like any business would do.<br /><br />We have a guy who comes into our office every week just to have someone to talk to, he's nice enough but would I treat him the same way as a new customer? No.<br /><br />Rock on SA!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22726546.post-74453400957053772732012-01-11T12:03:49.121+00:002012-01-11T12:03:49.121+00:00Heh heh, we are not all nutters on HPC. Many of re...Heh heh, we are not all nutters on HPC. Many of realise the Estate Agents are between a rock and a hard place when it comes to pricing vendors houses.<br /><br />Your blog rocks and I love reading it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22726546.post-66098588750895052232012-01-11T11:58:10.466+00:002012-01-11T11:58:10.466+00:00Although I agree that this guy seems a bit of an a...Although I agree that this guy seems a bit of an ass, I can't understand why you seem to think that he is so odious when you know he's right.<br /><br />In my own experience I've had agents talk up prices ridiculosly on both sides of the deal, and refuse to make offers to their clients that they tell me won't be accepted as 10% lower than asking is 'derisory' (even when prices are falling and they have not dropped for 2 years or more, so it is very clearly over priced). I've also had agents make up fictitious offers to gain business and make it sound like there is interest that doesn't exist. So I can understand some of his mentality too! <br /><br />Something is going to have to give sometime soon, as I've never seen a market that is so well and truly sh*gged as it is right now. If it was not for the banks putting pressure on the government to keep housing policy tight and subsidising the feckless through support schemes and avoidance of repossession then it might have a chance. <br /><br />Until it corrects, as painful as it will be, then you might as well get used to people like this as there will be more and more of them. In a few months you may be happy for their custom. <br /><br />Why not do something useful, like finding him a bargain he might actually buy?GDnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22726546.post-19946844421378730752012-01-11T11:51:51.011+00:002012-01-11T11:51:51.011+00:00Maybe SA has over egged it, but if I was expecting...Maybe SA has over egged it, but if I was expecting a bargain right now I wouldn't step foot in an estate agents without knowing some background on the seller. At the moment many people aren't 'sellers' and can sit tight dreaming about the 'value' of their homes - just look at how long some places have been on Rightmove for…these are the ones to blame for most of the problems on the way up and on the way down.<br /><br />Meanwhile those that want/need to sell are setting the real market & sale prices, and from what I can see they are gradually drifting down, but not at 'crash' speeds.<br /><br />Of course, as a bean counter will tell you, estate agents need transaction volume, not one or two high value sales a year, so the sooner they get to a long term sustainable level enabling more sales the better.<br /><br />Btw SA, I think you'll find HPC consider you a paragon of virtue in the Estate Agent world. Well, there has to be at least one ;)Mr Pnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22726546.post-8186691573466710942012-01-11T10:44:54.692+00:002012-01-11T10:44:54.692+00:00So people who want to buy a house at a salary mult...So people who want to buy a house at a salary multiple that was available just ten years ago are not to be trusted with children...<br /><br />Taking things a bit far, isn't it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22726546.post-82570083271358404292012-01-11T10:30:52.045+00:002012-01-11T10:30:52.045+00:00Struggle to understand the vitriol from SA. I'...Struggle to understand the vitriol from SA. I've enjoyed your posts for many years, but I'm scratching my head with this one. <br /><br />I gave up asking for info from Estate Agents when I got a cold shoulder. Silly really, when I find a decent house for a decent price, I'll buy - no collapsing chains.<br /><br />I do wonder how many EAs take a backhander for keeping repos off the market, well minimising advertising anyway. The expectation is that the house goes to BTL portfolios, builders etc.<br /><br />A few that I've bid on have come to my attention through unusual means, mates talking, walking around - seeing a sign even when I'm signed up to the same agents mailing list, have done visits to same EA and talked through what I'm looking for.<br /><br />Like many (soon most?) people - I realise how much of a bubble property has been in and when I buy a HOUSE for me and my family, I want to feel secure in it, knowing I can afford it and to RUN it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22726546.post-56640295732754406372012-01-11T10:07:59.626+00:002012-01-11T10:07:59.626+00:00The guy was stupid to even try to argue with you. ...The guy was stupid to even try to argue with you. What a waste of everyone's time. Of course he was right in waht he was saying.<br /><br />BTW - 'my friends at HPC'???jonathan davisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22726546.post-77729827231404281352012-01-11T10:07:50.668+00:002012-01-11T10:07:50.668+00:00If you look closely, below my post you will see th...If you look closely, below my post you will see the smallest violin in the world.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22726546.post-5740148712814988122012-01-11T08:08:39.079+00:002012-01-11T08:08:39.079+00:003 times average earnings to buy a house = function...3 times average earnings to buy a house = functioning market.<br /><br />6.5 times average earnings to buy a<br />house = non-functioning market.<br /><br />Seems like SA finally understands.<br /><br />Somethings got to give...probably!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22726546.post-60412975648486227952012-01-11T06:48:01.212+00:002012-01-11T06:48:01.212+00:00Emperors and little emperors never like being told...Emperors and little emperors never like being told they are naked Hotairmail, it's why I have to write anonymously...<br />S.A.secret agenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09349969960942971932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22726546.post-56021486687778844252012-01-10T23:22:37.550+00:002012-01-10T23:22:37.550+00:00Good post. Is it true you have the hardest job in ...Good post. Is it true you have the hardest job in the world - defending the indefensible? ;=)<br /><br />I often wonder how the Emperor felt about the bloke who told him he had no clothes. I've never found my bosses like that sort of 'observation' either.Alhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14381013196081166483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22726546.post-24808391809369906482012-01-10T20:31:59.916+00:002012-01-10T20:31:59.916+00:00House Price Crash sends it's regards *wave*House Price Crash sends it's regards *wave*Green Hornetnoreply@blogger.com