Who pays the real estate agency for services, buyer or seller? You'll be surprised.

Most often, when we buy real estate, we are trying to find something themselves and to avoid attracting unnecessary estate agents. But after a long search, wasting time and effort, we understand that time was wasted and you will have to apply exactly to the professionals. So today, in the third part of the theme about mistakes of buyers when buying property in Spain, I suggest to consider the common stereotype as: better and cheaper to buy property without any agents.

And so, desire to buy property in Spain without any agents can give us. I'm probably going to surprise many when I say that in Spain, owner pays for real estate agency services when selling property, not the buyer. Because he wants to sell the property and find client, not vice versa. Therefore, if you go directly to the seller, you don’t save, but only expose you to additional risks, not knowing the whole procedure of buying property in Spain. Now Spain's offer of real estate far exceeds demand, so the sellers and agents are going to all sorts of concessions to sell the property. Therefore, buying property in Spain with the help of agencies (in one of the blogs I will tell you how agencies in Spain to be trusted, and how not) you get free set of services to support your transaction, and free yourself from unwanted knowledge, waste of time and nerves. Everything is done by professionals, and you will only need to come and look at real estate.
Another thing, don’t ask your friends who live in Spain or who bought an apartment there to help you. After all, they also bought it with the agency. And if suddenly they accidentally give you false information, or miss something, you can’t then ask them to claim, but your friendship will suffer.
When the question arises how to find good real estate agency in Spain, I advise you to refer directly to the Spanish agencies, rather than their representatives in your country. Employees of the Spanish agents speak English, Russian or German and it won’t be difficult to understand each other. It is best to look for such agencies at real estate portals, such as Spanish Portal TOP-CASA. There dozens of agencies are collected, you can see the size of the agency, how much property they sell, which regions cover and compare with others. You can also watch rating of agencies, which immediately tells what to choose.

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