Negotiation strategy with the agent and the seller

The house was valued by me by a building expert for 380,000 euros and that is also what the seller wants.

Then give him the money if you want the house.

As mentioned, the house was inspected for 3 hours by an experienced building expert and accordingly valued. The house has no defects and is in an almost like-new condition. However, 380,000 euros is too high for the location or rather precisely calculated.

Then the house is probably worth the money.

The problem is the shark broker.

Ok, not everyone likes every profession.

So the currently involved forum members don’t see that I can use the situation to reduce the broker fee to 3,000 euros?

You have already negotiated...

My smartphone sent what it wanted. Lower Saxony, not Saxony

Put the location in your profile, then forum members can gauge your area.

I’m not losing anything. But it would be pretty stupid of him.

Ah...

Of course he will immediately shout no and be totally outraged. But I’m the one who has nothing to lose in the whole matter.

He has to come up empty for 6 months. Fine by me. I give him my offer and ciao. He has plenty to think about what he should do.

Even if I offer the broker 10,000 euros tomorrow instead of 13,900 euros, he will whine

Your thinking reads as very arrogant and pretentious.

At some point in negotiations, one should also know when it is enough, when the limit is reached, or when the value is achieved. That’s about negotiation strategies.

If you think the broker is a shark who only has reason to complain anyway, but you have nothing to lose, then turn away from the poor troll and keep looking.

Deals are made on equal footing, not by belittling someone.

Who says that the broker won't have sold it to someone else by October? He might get the full commission then.

...I'm going to get some popcorn...

;-)

Type question, if you sell yourself as skillfully as here, surely 98% of the agents will laugh in your face and say "ciao". Then you have something to "ponder"... Man, you are buying a house, probably one of the biggest investments in your life. The chances are not good and you still want to haggle boldly?

You certainly are not sitting at the longer lever...

Apparently no one here really knows much about negotiation strategies. I don't really either, but apparently more than some here. Even if I offer the broker 10,000 euros tomorrow instead of 13,900 euros, he will complain and initially won't want to accept it or only with a lot of hassle. People have mostly met in the middle since there have been negotiations. I tell him 3,000 euros, he says maybe 11,000 euros, and I tell him my last offer would be 4,000 euros and goodbye. He has to think long about whether he ends up empty-handed after 6 months or if he still gets 4k or 5k or whatever....

What does negotiation strategy mean? You are at a disadvantage compared to the seller and his interested party because of the broker. The seller wants 380k and will get it in 3 weeks, so why should he come down? You wouldn't do that either. The only lever is the broker. Tell him your price, I'll buy the place, and afterwards we go to the notary. Maybe he says 8k under the table and that's that. By the way, if I were the seller and had 2 interested parties, I'd even try to get a bit more. That's negotiation :) happened with my colleague in the urban area

Your offer should always be just above the level of audacity. In the last negotiation for a 450k euro house, I pushed the price down to 405k euros and the broker's commission from 24k euros to 12k. And that even with a house that apparently had many interested parties. Old house, shell without floor for me, therefore rejection. After my rejection, the house was sold within 3 weeks. You just keep paying diligently and let the euros be taken out of your pocket with the thought that everything has its price. Exactly because of people like that, it has come to the point where the outrageous broker demands 20k for an exposé, a few photos, and a viewing where he knows almost nothing about the house and you have to ask the neighbors yourself. 2000 euros would still be too high for such broker service. I'm out.