Is someone pulling a fast one

[Pit Pony]

Okay, so small alarm bells are ringing, not sure what if anything I can do, but I thought I'd present the facts to the PH business community and see if they see something fishy.

It started for me a whole month ago:

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

When I saw this property for sale here : http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...

and then again here : http://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/31970926#...

with the following price changes :


First listed

£55,000 on 13th Feb 2014

Asking price changes

• £50,000 9.1% Reduced on: 21st Feb 2014
• £40,000 20.0% Reduced on: 12th Apr 2014

So in 1 month, I've phone the agent, and spoken to "Jonathon", who assures me he'll try to arrange a viewing.

I've phoned them more than a few times, and got a story, that firstly they are having difficulty getting hold of the vendor, then they have spoken with the vendor and answered all my queries, but failed to organise a viewing, and eventually they are having difficulty getting in touch with the vendor.

now after a bit of digging I realise that

http://www.yellowspringbok.co.uk/ and

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/find....



So basically if I get this right, they have a part of the business that buys houses from desperate people, at 3/4 of the value, and puts them back on the market for 19/20 of the value. And the rest of the business pretends to be an estate agent ?

And in a whole month they can't secure me a viewing ? Strange ?

[Pit Pony]

I don't fully understand how that would work, unless they buy it for £35K and sell to me at £40K on the same day, with seconds apart ?

[Pit Pony]

jammy_basturd said:

Can you get hold of the owner details through the land registry and try and do a deal directly?

Don't know the Flat number.

[Pit Pony]

Simpo Two said:

Pit Pony said:

Don't know the Flat number.

Ding dong.. hello, are you the chap with THIS property for sale (shows printout)... yes/no etc.

I am popping into Derby on my way back from Hemel to Liverpool tomorrow afternoon, solely on the off chance that I can get one of the other residents to tell me which post box to put an envelope for the vendor into. So I will find out who owns it hopefully.