am i being fooled???

i had a call from a real estate agent this arvo, she said she had someone approach her saying they were very interested in buying my other house (the one i inherited from my mum not the one i live in)....shes coming to see me about it tomorrow....its currently not on the market...

i told my sister who then spoke to her real estate agent client who said that's a typical RA tactic and she probably doesn't even have anyone!!!

Is this true??? do they actually do that!!!??

I hope that this isn't insensitive but can I assume that the house would be termed a "deceased estate"? It is possible that the agent spotted this and is trying to get in before any other agents as they would be assuming that you want the house sold. When we recently sold our house the one over the road became a "deceased estate" and although our real estate agent was lovely he did become quite interested in the property over the road.

You could look into it if you are interested in selling but it would be best to avoid signing anything too soon

FIL has been approached recently and told the very same thing... he gave them some over the top figure as to what he wants for the house (he was far from ready to sell considering MIL had only been gone about 3-4 months!) Funnily enough, he hasnt heard from them since! I reckon its just a tactic to try and get ahead of other RA's to score extra commission etc...

I would say be warey, but it did happen to us. We had an agent knock on our door in a house that we had only owned for a year and were in the process of renovating, he said he had people interested in the house and were we intested in selling? At the time we didnt think we wanted to. We talked about it and said okay lets make up a number and give it to him and see what happens. Basically they came back with an offer pretty close to our dream number (at the time) and we sold it. We paid NO real estate fees, as we did not engage the agent. It was effectively a private sale.

I just wanted to add a positive story....it does happen sometimes!

Hi, I'm also involved in the RE unfortunately it could be a ploy - but there are also honest agents out there too! Our company doesn't sit and read the death notices to get a foot in the door our estate listings generally come thru The Public Trust (for example). She may generally have some one interested no harm in having a word - have other properties sold in the area recently? she may have a buyer who missed out on that property.

thanks ladies, I'm glad to hear that it is sometimes legit....

I really haven't noticed the houses for sale around here.
Its a small town and it was known around town that my mum had died because there was a bit of a drama behind it.

about 2 years ago my mum was approached by a couple who wanted to buy her house but mum said no because she didn't want to sell...this couple ended up buying the house a few doors down.

My DH said they might also be after her house because its one of the only houses around that area that has a very large section for subdividing - i cant remember how big it is but my house (i live in) is 800sqm and mums section is close to twice the size.

I guess il find out this arvo when i see her....bit nervous about it actually

Don't agree to anything your not happy with REA's are sales people its their job to get you to list your property with them I've had a bit to do with the industry over the last year and integrity is pretty thin around RE.

There are some nice agents out there but they can be really hard to find. I've had to deal with about 8 agents in my life and only 1 I had no problem with. All the rest were awful and one even got called "b*tchface" between DH and I and another I rang his boss and complained about feeling like we were being stalked lol

Yep the same thing happened to us .. the RA who sold us our house, came back after we had been in it six months and had someone who was willing to pay us 100k more than what we paid for it .. however it was my dream home and no money could but it (until i got divorced and then we had no choice) lol

id say be wary, we had this recently also, we had 2 agents who were hounding my mum to sell our family property, & a friend of ours whos a agent said aparently they can look up and see propertys that are already vacant or deceased estates,