Selling your home? Choose your estate agent wisely or repent at leisure

Buying a home is a big deal as is selecting the right agent. As estate agent Majella Galvin explains, it’s not always straightforward

Arrange meetings with several reputable agents at your home to gauge compatibility and to learn about their experience and approach.

You've found a property you’d like to buy, listed through an estate agent in town. As you contemplate making an offer, a question arises: Should you also engage this agent to sell your current property? Is using the same estate agent for both transactions the right choice?

On a surface level dealing with one person might seem more convenient and of course you may feel the agent is even more incentivised to sell your property, knowing that it must be sold if they are to complete the sale of the property you want to buy. But is selecting an agent on this basis alone a wise move? If you look a little deeper, you’ll see that instructing an estate agent to sell your home solely because they’re handling the sale of a property you wish to buy doesn’t convey any special advantages while it excludes many other considerations.