Can local agents contact me about selling my property?
Yes. After a market estimate you can ask to be introduced to the agents who work your area. They are sent the property and the estimate but not your contact details, and an agent who wants to speak to you pays a one-off fee to see them. It costs you nothing.
Yes. Once you have your market estimate, the section "Ask agents who work this area" offers Contact local agents, and that puts your property in front of the agents who work your area. They come back to you directly. It costs you nothing, and you are not asked for anything beyond the name and email you already gave for the report.
Who is told about it
Every agent registered on your portal who works the city your property is in. You do not choose them by name and you do not choose how many: the introduction goes to all of them, and each one decides for themselves whether to follow it up.
That is deliberately a wide net rather than a shortlist. A shortlist means somebody is choosing which agents get to hear about your home, and the fairest version of that choice is not to make it — so the city is the rule, and which of them actually calls you is left to them and to you. In most of these markets there are no exclusive listings anyway, so a seller normally talks to several agents, and a wider choice is the point.
What they are sent, and what they are not
They are sent the area, the property — the type, the number of bedrooms and bathrooms and the floor area, as far as you filled them in — the range your market estimate gave, and whether you want to sell or to rent it out.
They are not sent who you are. Your name, your email address, your telephone number and your exact address are held back: an agent looking at the introduction sees a home in a part of their city and an estimate, and cannot tell whose it is or knock on the door.
How an agent gets your details
An agent who wants to speak to you pays to be shown your contact details — 10 USD, once, for that one introduction. Your details are then revealed to that agent, and to that agent only; the ones who did not pay never see them.
Several agents may pay, and each pays separately. Nobody is given your property exclusively, and paying first does not reserve you — so the calls you get are from the agents who thought your home was worth the fee, rather than from whoever happened to be quickest.
You pay nothing, at any point. What an agent pays is a fixed amount for the introduction itself and it is not a commission or a share of what your home sells for, so nothing an agent paid us has to be earned back out of your sale. The fee reaches Housing Market Group and not the agent, and it does not buy the agent any claim on your property, any instruction or any exclusivity — if you never sign with any of them, that is simply the end of it.
What you see
You get your own confirmation email when you ask. Your market estimate, the full report and the property saved in your homeowner account are yours either way and are not affected by whether any agent gets in touch.
We do not promise you a call. How many agents work your city, how many of them decide to pay, and how quickly any of them telephones are not things we control or predict, so we do not put a number or a waiting time on any of them.
If it is not offered to you
Where agent introductions are not available on your portal, the page says so, and everything else stays yours: your market estimate, the full report and the saved property are unaffected.
That is the case everywhere today. Introductions are switched off while the step in which an agent pays and your details are revealed to them is finished — until it exists, an introduction sent out would be your details given to every agent in your city for nothing, which is exactly what being switched off prevents. Your market estimate and the full report are unaffected by it.