It might depend on what you are planning to spend. Most buyer agents split the commission on a boat with the selling agent. You might find it hard to get one involved with a used older boat. We bought our boat through a Pop-Yachts listing and were provided a buyers agent automatically by Pop-yachts (remarkable for how little we paid for the boat) but we never met him in person. He was very helpful but as with anyone working on commission, we had to really push him to negotiate the price down to where we knew it should be based on the comps we got. More advice is available for completing a Pop-Yachts transaction if you like.
The best two things we had going for us were: 1. An independent, 3rd party, broker willing to do free comps and give market advice for us via email with the understanding we might use him in the future when we buy a more expensive upgrade. I found this guy by calling a buyers agent office and learned about the disinterest of buyers agent relationships for low-cost yachts at the beginning of our search. You might be able to pay someone a fee for this service if needed but ours offered for free. 2. A surveyor lined up BEFORE we decided on a boat. Ours was exceptionally helpful and spent hours on the phone with me talking about the various yachts we looked at during our search (try not to abuse their time, but Tom was a "talker" and kept me on the phone most times) On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 10:04 AM Adam Hayden via CnC-List < cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > Hello listers > > > We are considering/ starting our search and looking for something newer > and slightly larger than our current 1981 C&C36. > > I am sure this has been debated before. Do I need to have a buyers > broker( like real estate) looking our for my interests or is that an > unnecessary expense? I purchased my last 3 boats without one but they > were more local. > > Thanks > Adam Hayden > > Thanks > Adam > > Sent from my Bell Samsung device over Canada’s largest network. > Thanks to all of the subscribers that contributed to the list to help with > the costs involved. If you want to show your support to the list - use > PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray Thanks > - Stu
Thanks to all of the subscribers that contributed to the list to help with the costs involved. If you want to show your support to the list - use PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray Thanks - Stu
