by romablade1889 » Sat Sep 09, 2006 10:57 am
All,
A bit of a warning... If considering ditching your estate agent and dealing direct with the developer, think about why you would do this...
There's no financial gain as the agent (or sales team's) commission is paid by the developer not the buyer.
If it's because you think you will get preferential treatment from buying direct think about this... If (and I'm not saying this is necessarily the case with Fadesa - you have to make your own minds up on that one) the developer is giving preferential treatment to its own sales division to the detriment if its agents (who will always provide the majority share of buyers), how does this reflect on the scruples of that developer? If, again I'm hypothesising here, the developers direct sales team were to encourage those already dealing with agents to ditch their agent and deal direct, what else would this tell us about the moral standards and professionalism of that direct sales team.
If this hypothetical direct sales team and developer could treat their biggest channel to market, its agents, who as a group have immense buying power, with such contempt, how would they treat an individual like you or I if anything were to go wroing with our purchase...
Before you ditch your agent, think about it...
And before you ask, I'm a buyer not an agent...