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Why would an estate agent use 1 property site and not the other

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  • 14-04-2017 7:58am
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    hairyslug
    Registered Users Posts: 2,593 ✭✭✭


    I sold my house last year, nothing strange with the sale and the agent advertised on both myhome and daft.
    I am in the process of selling another house now and the agent is not using one of the above sites. I can't get, what i believe to be, a realistic answer out of them.
    Do certain agents have deals with one or other of the sites to advertise solely on them or am i missing something.


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    Ray Palmer
    Registered Users Posts: 8,394 ✭✭✭Ray Palmer


    Simply cost. To use Myhome for example is very expensive per property if you don't advertise on it much.


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    hairyslug
    Registered Users Posts: 2,593 ✭✭✭hairyslug


    Ray Palmer wrote: »
    Simply cost. To use Myhome for example is very expensive per property if you don't advertise on it much.

    Is there much of a difference between the cost of myhome and daft for an agent.


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    Sleeper12
    Registered Users Posts: 17,074 ✭✭✭✭Sleeper12


    The house will sell quickly with just one site. When things are quieter they use as many as possible. Some houses are being sold without listings at all.


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    LollipopJimmy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,442 ✭✭✭LollipopJimmy


    Anybody thinking of buying will be looking everywhere. No need to list in more than one place


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    Bandana boy
    Registered Users Posts: 4,330 ✭✭✭Bandana boy


    In a strong market , using both is not required .
    He could though owe one of them money and need to clear a debt to start using again


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    Ray Palmer
    Registered Users Posts: 8,394 ✭✭✭Ray Palmer


    hairyslug wrote: »
    Is there much of a difference between the cost of myhome and daft for an agent.

    Yes Daft is very cheap compared with myhome and pretty much anybody can use it.


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    BigAl81
    Registered Users Posts: 1,120 ✭✭✭BigAl81


    I'd be more thinking why would anyone use an estate agent when you could go straight to Daft yourself!


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    borderlinemeath
    Registered Users Posts: 5,340 ✭✭✭borderlinemeath


    An EA distant relative of my husband told us a while back that his office pulled a lot of listings of myhome.ie when the website was down/intermittent while they were upgrading it, business didn't suffer so they haven't been using it half as much as they used to.


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