Would you use an Estate Agent to sell your home who doesn't advertise on Rightmove?

What happens if you are new to an area and want to look within 30 minutes drive of your work. That’s an awful lot of time and money driving around on the off chance you see a for sake board for something that isn’t on right move

Well how else do you know it’s for sale

No

Only if I was in the billionaire market and using a really specialist agent.

The estate agent pays out of the amount you pay them. It’s why the OP is suggesting this - if she doesn’t have to pay the Rightmove fees, she can cut her prices.

It’s the same as 20 / 30 years ago, the estate agent didn’t bill for printing details of your house or doing an advert in the local paper. It’s part of the cost of doing business,

You absolutely are paying for it, the estate agent just doesn’t break down their expenses when they quote.

Edited to say: Unless you are in the very rare areas (more common in Scotland, apparently) where for some reason Rightmove hasn’t taken hold. Otherwise, Rightmove is so ubiquitous that I’d expect you to be told if your house wasn’t going to be on it.

We purchased our property via a friend that knew the seller, we wanted to move they wanted to sell...job done, no EA involved.

I'd still look in EA windows, Facebook market place and if I knew the area I wanted to live in I'd do a drive round noting any for sale boards that were up.

Equally I'll look up an EA's own Web page and have a browse.

Nope

we are selling our house - we have not been asked to pay for Rightmove

No, when we were looking for a house I looked up on Rightmove and Zoopla every day, several times a day.
How else can you get the info? There is no other way realistically.

If I lived on a coveted street such that money was changing hands under the table from prospective buyers bribing estate agents to get my house before it was advertised then I wouldn’t mind not being on Rightmove. If your village is somewhere like that then it could work?

unless it’s an unusual house I’d immediately assume there’s back handers somewhere. There’s a couple of agents near me who have not shown houses properly or advertised them properly because they are making big on a back hander

Rightmove for me for sure.
I don't go onto our local estate agents website because their cookies policy means i am apparently accepting them if I continue. Bang out of order. Sod that. I can't be bothered fannying about with my phone settings either.

Rightmove means i can sort my cookie preferences quickly and easily.

No I wouldn’t. The rightmove listing is the main way to sell your house. The estate agent is secondary. I also don’t understand why people use two estate agents. When you see the house on rightmove you then have to decide arbitrarily which agent to call.

I too have many questions on this!

No, I always check Rightmove first, I never actually go into an estate agents or look in their window, I just look at Rightmove. I've sold a house and an apartment recently and I definitely don't think the apartment would have sold so quickly, within 2 weeks of going on the market, if it hadn't been on Rightmove.

I'm so confused by this and desperate for an explanation. If you are on a property on Rightmove, you can click to call for more information, but it just directs you to the agent - so if they aren't responding well, that's the estate agent, nothing to do with Rightmove.

Or if you are calling up Rightmove - why are you doing that? And why aren't they explaining your mistake? None of that makes sense.

If you sell a property before it’s listed, as a buyer I’d be eternally grateful you didn’t then list it on Rightmove because it would stop gazumping. Which honestly I feel like good EA’s manage.

Also, as the seller, I’d rather that property wasn’t listed on Rightmove because if that buyer then dropped out I’d want the benefit of ‘launching’ the property so to speak.

So I think the answer is keep listing on Rightmove, but exercise discretion when you secure sales before they’re listed. But also this is a huge benefit that you’re able to secure quick sales - don’t discount the value of that. I’d actually pay a premium to an agent who could sell my property faster so I think this is huge value add. Don’t undervalue your work.

Who is buying the village homes?

Outsiders- you need rightmove because those customers won't know to look for your business.

Locals - they'll see your sign and you probably have a fairly captive audience so probably fine.

Definitely not

Fair enough if that works best for them; but surely it isn't surprising that some sellers would want to feel confident that they got the best possible (realistic) price and weren't unintentionally selling themselves short by tens of thousands?

Yeah, I'm confused too. Rightmove is just an advertising platform and not an agent or middleman.

Like in the old days, you wouldn't look for a plumber in the Yellow Pages and then phone the YP publishers to get your chosen one to come out and fix your toilet!

I think it depends on local area. When I lived in Edinburgh it was espc and could be hit miss as to which properties made it onto rightmove.

Maybe I'm unusual, but as a seller using you as an agent, I would be very hesitant for you to say that you already have a buyer, so no need to put it on RM.

I would be concerned that you might just be looking to flip my house and get your commission quickly, rather than working for me and trying to get me the best possible offer by advertising it on the open market.

After all, as PP said, it isn't difficult at all to sell a house if you happily accept a ridiculously low knock-down bargain price - the professional skill is in finding the right buyer and achieving the right price.

But equally if you're thinking of living in a particular area surely you'd check out the local estate agent scene as part of your research?

Actually, no, I wouldn’t and last time I moved, I didn’t. I was looking for a fairly standard two bed flat in a particular area. I viewed 8-10 off Rightmove and bought the one I liked the best. There was a large choice available, why would I waste my time looking anywhere else?

If I ever win the lottery and I’m looking for the perfect multi million pound house that ticks every box, I may take longer / but until then, Rightmove suits me fine. Most ‘perfect’ houses / flats in my price bracket have something annoying that only comes to light after purchase, anyway.