Estate Agents

I know someone that genuinely is good mate - you pay for it like - but I send many of my clients his way and never hear a bad word. Can put you in touch if you are indeed still looking.

 

Estate agents are incredibly lazy, I agree.

We bought a bungalow in Wakefield to refurbish. Ripped out the fitted wardrobes and fireplace, bricked up the door and serving hatch in the kitchen and fitted a new kitchen, re-plastered and redecorated throughout.

Put it back on the market a few months later with the same agents who took new photos but the brochure and floor plan still referred to fitted wardrobes, fireplace, and back door and serving hatch in kitchen. No mention either of the induction hob and integrated dishwasher, nor the new oak doors. Just sheer laziness in copying and pasting from the previous sales details.

Needless to say, we terminated our contract with them and put the property on the market with Whitegates in Barnsley, who I can thoroughly recommend. We have used them before. Sold within a month to first people to view.

The director of the Wakefield agents had also done the EPC, but got that wrong by stating there was no cavity wall insulation. Even I could see the holes drilled in the external walls, and i took photos inside to prove it had the insulation when we had to expose the cavity internally.

 

Don't get me started on EPCs. The place we have our eye on has a current EPC rating of E done in 2017 the last time it was sold. Yet since then, they've massively improved energy efficiency and insulation. You'd think a new EPC should be mandatory each time a property is sold.

 

I think they last for 10 years, but i agree that a new one should be done when a property is put on the market.

 

Thanks for that, I may well ask for their details... But can't promise ;-)

 

Yes, I didn't realise they just ran for that period. Since the last sale of this property, they'd extended and added cavity wall, double glazing, underfloor heating, thermostatic controls and a new boiler. Crazy none of that is reflected in the EPC.

 

Isn't it crazy that they did all that work and didn't just pay a few quid for a new EPC to benefit from it in terms of saleability? It's in their interests at least as much as yours, surely?

 

Well… he is french

 

Say no more.