Further to my post of 1st November, I can report what may be a widening of this issue. An apartment on a main road close to the local shopping centre/transport interchange has for some weeks carried a larger than usual “sold by” sticker with prominent portraits of the selling agent and his young offsider. More recently, another sticker has been added below the first – “bought by” a buyer’s agent!
I await developments; will the selling agent react with outrage and remove the sticker that is, in effect, gaining a free ride on the agent’s hardware? Selling agents like to boast about the great prices they realise; buying agents do the same about how they keep the price down to a level that more than recoups the presumably substantial fees that they charge.
Who is winning – the vendor or the purchaser? Perhaps the respective agents are the only ones coming out ahead.