Those who follow my blog will know my opinion of real estate agents: 'useless' is perhaps the least offensive term. Why would you pay someone thousands of dollars for doing no more than drive someone out to your place for a look-see?
A taxi-driver would do it for a lot less. In fact, some agents are ex-taxi-drivers and a lot of other ex-es besides, but never ex-cellent!
After all, what do they do other than list your property on the internet and then wait to drive someone out to it? I can do that better myself!
A lot of others seem to have come to the same conclusion, judging by the growing number of do-it-yourself real estate internet portals:
- myprivaterealestate.com.au
- propertynow.com.au
- realprivate.com.au
- forsalebyowner.com.au
- buymyplace.com.au,
- sellmyhouseonline.com.au
- noagentproperty.com.au
- owner.com.au
- sellmypropertynow.com.au
- aboda.net.au, et al
Of course, selling directly through the internet is the way of the future, and at least one local agent seems to have realised this by offering the same sort of do-it-yourself package: click here.
Good on ya, Beaches & Bush Properties. Welcome to the future in real estate sales and thank you for no longer beating around the bush!
