Recommend estate agent for selling in Raheen

Hi OP,

Ive used Bill Hanly for a couple of sales.

Very professional and got great results.

Good luck with your sale!

Here’s some first hand experience.

don’t sell it yourself. I’ve been down this road. The common question was ‘why are you selling yourself’... followed by: is there something wrong with the house / area / scenario.

It’s just too uncommon - and buyers don’t feel ‘at ease’ talking to the owner.

i sold the same house via an auctioneer some years later... and he added 88,000 euro worth of value compared to my attempt 4 years previous.

We expected to make 210-220 given the market. He fetched us 243,000 and was a pleasure to deal with.

Very organised, professional and kept us constantly updated.

Plus... his ‘rate’ is very favourable.

Rowan Fitzgerald

get him in to do a valuation and have a chat. Won’t cost you a cent

Anthony Galvin Property management.

Avoid GL auctioneers. Absolutely awful company.

He valued a property for my father for a bank. Got it completely wrong. Did not know the area or the up to date interest in the area. Had to give the bank my own valuation and explain the reasoning. They accepted my valuation which was correct as bourne out by sales at the time. Was not impressed with his attitute when i asked to explain his valuation when he quipped he was the property expert not me! I would agree with others sell it yourself, especially in this market. No one knows your property better than yourself, and indeed its value. Its worth a try either way and will cost you little more than a daft add. Dont do multiple viewings. Take a whatsapp video of the house and area and text it to interested parties first. Just bought a house through a private sale and all went smoothly. Dealing with the actual owner and not the estate agent is refreshing as you have direct contact even after hours should you have any queries on progress etc.

Bill Hanley avoid, very rude to deal with. Same with Geraldine Leddin Auctioneers, they seem to not have a lot of time to deal with you especially the Man in there.

Michael Roberts or Rooneys is a good option in my opinion.

Re read my post and youll see i meant the opoosite of what you said. So youre one of these people who wants to buy something for as little as possible but wants inflated values on paper. No wonder the country went arseways.

‘No one knows your property better than yourself, and indeed its value.’

the market dictates the value of property. Id go on that before i bought a house off the likes of you.

what does x + 20% mean. Theyll just raise it to suit you?

i was a valuer for ten plus years. Nonsense.

Why can we sell a car by ourselves but need someone to sell our house for us?

A big one to ask them is what they will do differently to every other auctioneer in the city. If they waffle about having a pool of potential buyers on file you can walk away. Potential buyers do not sit with one estate agent they actively search themselves. After that I'm not actually sure what any of them do differently to others. They all take a few pics of varying reality and quality. Put an ad on daft with generic blurb. Do a few viewings (or group viewings if they are really lazy) and accept offers. In reality they do not have the time or resources to vet bidders and it actually suits them if a few fake bids go in as it creates more interest. A 1.5% commission is really too paltry for any real interest in the final sale price. As they say in the business..keep closing sales not selling. Thats where the money is.

Just wondering who you went with looking at auctioneers at the moment. We have a house to sell in September curious who you went with?