I have a question for the experts ,
a lot of you mention about becoming friendly with a real estate agent,
I find this very difficult to do,
mainly becuase they are sales people, they will basically do anything to line their pockets, I hear and read so many posts where REA's are saying the property market is as strong as ever blah blah when clearly its not, (eg the FHO market going nuts at the moment etc )
Ive spoken to a few RE agents and most of them do the sales spiel. eg I said to one last week, I am looking for this and this with a budget of $400k, he said, oh you won't get anything for that price, (I was enquiring for one that was adverstised about $460k), when there are 3 advertised for $390k, and one was sold at auction for $360k. so all credibility went down the drain with this guy, becuase he has outright lied to me.
ive also seen a lot of people hear saying that they were speaking with their REA about their local market, and it seems that they have a good relationship with their REA, was wondering how do you get into this position, Ive even said that I was interested in 2-3 properties in the same suburb in the next 12 months, and that didn't seem to make much difference.
at the moment, I have been going by the number of ads on re.com.au, the prices, the changes in advertised prices, the time it takes to sell a property as a guide to the market in a particular suburb, do I need to even bother talking to a REA, to get a better feel for the local market or even the entire property market??