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In the present housing market, it is clear that the seller has the estate agent on their side. The buyer, too, can recruit a valuable ally, but is a buying agent an essential safeguard or an expensive luxury? We have all experienced the property market in this country, where frustrations can boil over, unscrupulous behaviour abounds and joy is often followed by tears; where the whole process is so antiquated, long-winded and uncertain that buying a house is at best confusing and at worst traumatic. Those of us who have lost out on the house of our dreams know only too well what this feels like. The loss can be a mixture of grief for what might have been, coupled with unconsummated love for the need to live there. When we fall for a house we become obsessed, because that house can mean so much more than just a roof and four walls. It can promise a dream, a lifestyle that we have aspired to and a happy-ever-after ending. So - how can we try and safeguard our dream? On average, one in three property transactions fail to exchange contracts and the reasons for these failures only reinforce the fragility of the whole process. Do we need help to buy houses? Is there a way in which we can maximise the chances of finding the right house and then actually securing it? Enter the knights in shining armour: Property buying agents, otherwise called search agents, relocation agents or garlanded with the grandiose phrase ‘acquisition agents’. Who are they and what is their role in the whole house-moving procedure?
What many people fail to realise when looking for a house is that the selling agents have a duty to represent only the vendor. Although the better estate agents will always be helpful and courteous to the purchaser, their ultimate duty is not to them, but to their client and in selling his or her property for the best possible price. It is for this reason that you may consider making the intelligent step of recruiting Harringtons Home Finders, who because of their position and experience in the market place would be in the best position to fight your corner and find that dream house that no one else could. With extensive experience in negotiations, we are able to put you in the best possible position for acquisitions at the best possible price for you. For more information about our Home Finding service please call 01329 834 835. |
| The Old Timbers, The Square, Wickham, Hampshire, PO17 5JG Tel: 01329 834835 Contact Branch |
31 High Street, Petersfield, Hampshire, GU32 3JR Tel: 01730 235100 Contact Branch |
The idea that purchasers of property should be represented by a professional agent was born in the early 1980s and has grown to the extent that last year hundreds of millions of pounds worth of property was bought with the assistance of buying agents.