fabteo

LOl, thats a good one, i do agreed that 90% of the agents out there are scumbags and cheats, 9% are plain stupid, 1% are professional.

hi people, COV is getting ridiculous even in Sengkang, owners are all asking for 55k up, and trust me, some are even asking for 80K and original condition, I believe it is either greed or the agent is give wrong advice.

Hi people, came across this topic and decided to share my experience. Together with my partner, we have been hunting flats for the past 8 months, as my sister is an agent, she would do the paper work for me as such I do not need a seller agent. That is when i realised that most of the ad placed in website like property Guru are infested with rogue and crook agents which really make the whole buying process sickening. I discovered that most of the ad place by smaller unheard of agency etc. S.E.A (Singapore estate Agency), Hutton and some others had the most crooky agent, they would place an ad and when you call the number, most of the time it is their colleague who would answer and insist on representing you, when I mentioned i had an agent, they would give excuses not to let you view, one from SEA even lied that the unit is in the final stage of closing, but after 1 month, the unit is still in the market. Some of the above agency will not publish their name, just surname and some funny name which give me a sneaky feeling. (I would not trust them with my dog let alone a property transaction). The above selling ethic are against CEA regulation as only exclusive seller agent can advertise. We do come across some good and responsible agent, and most of the time they are from the bigger agency, so after 8 months of hunting, I have the following suggestion for flat hunters which want to save from paying buyer commission, (to me it is rubbish as I seriously believe that we do not need a buyer agent). 1) Keep looking, there are good agent with good listing around. 2) Use the newspaper, though there are some agency which operate as mentioned above, it is much much fewer as paper ad cost them money unlike website ad which they paid for a year. 3) Never deal with smaller unheard of agency, etc S.E.A, ECG, to a certain extend, Hutton. 4) ERA, Dennis Wee, Propnex and OT are few agency which most of the agent abide by the rules Buying a flat is not rocket science, we do not really need a buyer agent, as for those who think that we need one in order to complete a transaction, pay the seller agent some coffee money for the paper done, most would gladly accept.