Advice on auctioneer in Cork City to sell house...?

tonylong28 wrote: »

price reduced from €545,000,00 to €475,000,00

You are aware all advertisements for the property show the price as 495,000??

The best way to find out if an auctioneer is any good is to ring them about a property on their books currently and see what response you get. If you leave a message and they don't get back to you within 24 hours - do you really want an auctioneer that will fob off other potential purchasers for _your_ property?

And gauge their enthusiasm - you want someone who is interested in selling a property and keen to get you to arrange a viewing, and not someone bored with their (probably very slow in the current climate) job.

Also make sure you check the quality of their currently listed properties. If they are poorly written with no futher information on each room other than "it has electrical sockets and a curtain pole" then my advice would be to steer well clear.

Other posters often mention, too, that they don't like ads with all capital letters because it's very unprofessional on the web - it's as if they are shouting at you.

And make sure they advertise on _both_ daft.ie and myhome.ie because you'll get more 'hits' that way.

Once you have narrowed it down to six or seven that you like, ring them as a prospective seller and ask them their level of commission. From what I can gather, Cork seems to be between 1.25% and 1.75% these days, although someone from the city may charge more for the extra commute to Midleton.

Then once you have narrowed that list to three or four, invite them to the property for their advice on the price.
But make sure the person who comes will be the one selling your property - larger auctioneers will often send the best sales agent to the property and then another auctioneer who may not have seen your property will be the ones eventually doing the write-up and the (not as good) sales pitch to the viewers.