The Buyer Agent
A Buyer Agent is a real estate agent specialising in individualised realty estate searches.
The Buyer Agent's sole responsibility is to represent the client: the buyer!
As a professional real estate agent, he or she is fully licensed to act on your behalf as an intermediary between you and seller.
As with all real estate professionals, the Buyer Agent is compensated only after the closing signatures.
The Buyer Agent offers a complete service to you, the buyer: assistance in the search for the right property and guidance through the entire transaction. He or she will search for and select properties according to your specifications, participate in price negotiations and advise and consult with you, the future buyer, every step of the way.
Eight good reasons to use Côté Acheteur "France Buyer Agency"
1) You are not located in the search area
Whether you have a professional transfer in a few months time and want to buy a villa or an apartment before moving, and therefore are not yet located there to search the local market…. Or you are just living abroad and want to buy an investment property, a holiday home or a permanent residence, an effective property search will require a lot of travelling back and forth to visit properties that do not always fit: It is difficult to find your dream in just a few visits (most of the visits are disappointing as property ads do not always reflect the full reality!) and on the other hand, it might be dangerous to buy too quickly and realise afterwards that it does not really fit.
Côté Acheteur search agents will visit the selected properties for you and will send you detailed reports so you know that the property will fit before you even decide to visit it by yourself !
2) You don't have the time to search by yourself
You are decided to buy a property but you are quite busy and have no time to dedicate to property search, and/or have enough of successive frustrations from wasting your time by visiting properties that don’t really fit…
Indeed, searching for a property is quite long and frustrating. In particular in France, where we don’t have proper tools to scan all internet offers from private owners and/or real estate agencies, and no databases centralizing all real estate offers, requiring to visit them one by one if you want to scan the whole market!
Again, It is in addition difficult to find your dream in just a few visits and on the other hand, it might be dangerous to buy too quickly and realise afterwards that it does not really fit.
Côté Acheteur will do all the hard work for you: selection, visits, reports: you just need to tell us what you want and will visit the properties by yourself only when you’re sure the property fit and can be of your interest!
3) You don't know well the search area
Côté Acheteur property finders can advise you for best locations for your specific needs and desires; taking into account your key criteria such as proximity of schools, shops, airport or train stations, public transportations … They live there and have a very good knowledge of the whole search area, ensuring an effective selection of properties that will best suits you and exclusively for your interest.
4) You want to move quickly into your new home
Whether you just sold your house or apartment, or have a renting contract ending, or a short deadline to move to a new home, and in order to avoid multiples moves and relocations, a temporary rent, and additional fees for furniture storage….
Côté Acheteur property search services allow you to:
-Have a buyers agent dedicated to your search
-Have the proper Knowledge, search tools, network and time to best scan the whole local market and gain in reactivity
5) You want to buy a property at a fair price
Whether you want to buy an investment property, a holiday home or a permanent residence: if you don’t know the local real estate market and want to be sure you pay a fair price for your investment, searching through a local property finder like Côté Acheteur will provide you with the relevant information about current market price and opportunities. In addition, Côté Acheteur buyers agent have the skills and experience to negotiate for you with the right arguments, in order to get the price lower than you could negotiate by yourself!
6) You want independent advice and a unique contact to manage the whole project!
Traditional real estate agents try to sell properties that they have in their portfolio: their clients are the sellers, not the buyers.
Côté Acheteur is an independent property search service. We are not an estate agency, we do not have properties for sale, and do we share the estate agent’s fee. We therefore guarantee there is no conflict of interest, and will act exclusively for you and the best of your interests, searching for the property that best suits your needs, without being influenced by commissions from other real estate agents.
In addition, you have to go through many different real estate agents if you want to search the whole local market to find the best, meaning multiple contacts that do not always understand your needs and do not always take into account your personal interests and experience. Côté Acheteur will assign one search agent to you in order to manage the whole project : you will have a unique contact from the beginning to the finale signature, understanding your requirements, getting your feedback on the properties they visit for you, managing the whole buying process for you, knowing and taking into account your taste and constraints !
7) You don't speak French
Real estate agents don’t always speak good English, so best is to use Côté Acheteur property search services if you want to be sure :
-to cover the whole market (without restriction of using only ”English speaking” real estate agents),
-to get all the detailed information required about the properties you’re interested in,
-to understand and go through the whole buying process smoothly,
Côté Acheteur search agents send you detailed reports in English and translate all necessary relevant information for you!
8) You have never bought in France before
The buying process can be quite long and frustrating, not only the search (through many real estate agents), but also the sale itself, through notaries, which takes usually a few months time and has to follow a number of rules and regulations. Côté Acheteur property finders will help you to go through this process smoothly without last minute surprise.
