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Price on Application (POA)

  • 21-06-2013 11:17PM
    #1
    yoloc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 375 ✭✭


    Price on application. WHY WHY WHY do estate agents do this. Ive seen loads on daft,myhome or property.ie saying this and it does my head in. why just they dont put the price on the ad because as soon as you phone up, they tell you. WTF!!


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  • #2
    nicol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 367 ✭✭nicol


    This drives me crazy too. There is one estate agent in my locality who has most of the properties they have for sale advertised as POA. I know some sellers probably request it but it puts me right off!
    yoloc wrote: »
    Price on application. WHY WHY WHY do estate agents do this. Ive seen loads on daft,myhome or property.ie saying this and it does my head in. why just they dont put the price on the ad because as soon as you phone up, they tell you. WTF!!


  • #3
    StillWaters
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,799 ✭✭✭StillWaters


    yoloc wrote: »
    Price on application. WHY WHY WHY do estate agents do this. Ive seen loads on daft,myhome or property.ie saying this and it does my head in. why just they dont put the price on the ad because as soon as you phone up, they tell you. WTF!!

    Back in the old days before the Internet, all prices were POA. You didn't want neighbours knowing your business. Lots of older people still in this mindset, hence why this practice persists. Thats my theory anyway.


  • #4
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 75,480 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    StillWaters wrote: »
    Back in the old days before the Internet, all prices were POA. You didn't want neighbours knowing your business. Lots of older people still in this mindset, hence why this practice persists. Thats my theory anyway.

    I can remember asking prices well pre internet... Local rag had online archives to about '77, may look to see when it became common


  • #5
    Scortho
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,871 ✭✭✭Scortho


    Unless the property ticked all the boxes (and that's a very long list of boxes) poa gets ignored. It's too much hassle during the search phase.


  • #6
    yoloc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 375 ✭✭yoloc


    Scortho wrote: »
    Unless the property ticked all the boxes (and that's a very long list of boxes) poa gets ignored. It's too much hassle during the search phase.

    I agree, youve to go through all teh different price ranges if you want to see all the POA ones to because they dont have that search option on it. Something daft and myhome should look into


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  • #7
    TheDriver
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,178 ✭✭✭✭TheDriver


    also I have found you simply ring up the EA sec and they tell you all the POAs right away. Most of the time they are seriously overpriced


  • #8
    The_Conductor
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 32,286 Mod ✭✭✭✭The_Conductor


    Seems to be common practice outside the main urban areas- with particular crops of POAs in some midland towns and/or rural areas. Not sure why (though these areas are registering lower price falls than other what you'd consider equivalent areas and property types elsewhere).

    For most people these days- POA is a turn off- they don't even ask any questions about the property- when in reality they might be very very interested, if it was appropriately priced, and advertised in a standard manner.


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