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Congratz to you! you must be a ground floor lover, there's always a group looking at only ground floors or otherwise top floors! It's a fun unit as it offers more outdoor space and interesting usage of space and lifestyle. you are right, area cannot be covered up, and the management needs to know what you plan to do as for rubbish, what's mentioned is true, but the management would be able to help you resolve in no time

they are lovely people..open and frank, transaction smooth

Hi Goalhome the question 'can cobroke?' is a result of training by our trainers..they have said it's a courtesy gesture..new or humble agents still doing this..of course there are agents who will just call and run through their list of questions. when we ask this questions, at the same time we also get to know if it's owner's listing or not. regards,

just want to share somemore..when the listing is open, the agent knew he might lose the listing or having another agent 'steal' the listing, naturally less time and effort is expensed especially on marketing such as sms broadcast to agents or listing on networks or social media, then to make it worse sometimes the other agent might 'steal' the listing when they get the marketing info.. when there's direct buyer call in enquiry, the tendencies to quote lower prices is there as he is probably 'worried' he might lose the buyer interest as he knew the other agents with the open listing might be doing the same when the buyers come with expectation of a lower price, a higher closing price becomes unlikely back to when a listing is not widely marketed, I personally felt this is unfair to the owner as you can't really say it's the best possible price But I agree in the end all goes down to the preference of the sellers, afterall what better way to sell your house than being in 100% full control over it! Cheers!

on the part on why there's a need to signing of exclusive, they have been many stories behind, perhaps agents to agents knows best, and I don't mean to sound rude here.. other than that, any agent would be most happy and most wholeheartedly market a listings that has been assigned to him 'exclusively', nowadays agents would do-away with the exclusive papers if the owner prefers, and it is basically just mutual agreements arranged. On the part of cobroke, CEA has already put a watch on agents who are unwilling to cobroke..add to that the council ruling forbids dual representation by agents, with hefty fines and revoke of license imposed, leaving agents acceptance for cobroke as the way to get going. this is especially true in HDB resale, due to the paperwork involved and declaration. well I have heard of some owners sharing of some agents willingness to cobroke with their own selected agents only,in this case, I felt this agent has already in breached of the Act; i.e NOT looking after the seller's best interest..as the above poster has mentioned, the OTHER agent might have a buyer that can pay more, in this case sellers/owners should dismiss/replace the agent. Hope this clear some air Overall I felt it could be the level of trust between the seller and agent or just simply between 2 parties that are comfortable with each other as that would take away a lot uneasiness and doubts

I am a property agent so answering this question seems inappropriate, as one might think that my thoughts are naturally skewed towards promoting agents' services.. well, it's definitely do-able to sell on your own, paperwork and co-ordination might be quite a challenge but it should still be able to iron out and follow through I think the tricky part comes when in the sale process, ie. during viewing, and selling the good points of the house to your viewers, there's often some reservation between the owners and viewers, this is a hindrance in the convincing portion, also some viewers will proscastinate even at initial viewing..we all know if there's no viewing, how can there be chance to sell..in this case the agents can persuade potential buyers to view but it will be quite strange for the owner to do that.. As for negotiating, when details and requests are discussed owners often get personal and emotional and this is same for buyers, so another hindrance here, note that there are deals that fall thru because of this..having said that, it is why agents would request owners to entask them this function to act for his interest and to arrived at the same agreeable point with the buyer or buyer's agent and to close the sale. then lastly agents can access to the multi listing network to make known to all agents of your property for sale thereby achieving effective and faster results.