@zer0hedge..bro My favourite sport walking home from the pub in London was pulling down the prolific visual pollution of estate agent boards left up with 'sold' signs to gain free advertising space.
The fuckers would come around regularly to put them back up... even the ones that happened to fall in dog-doo.
Glad that I sold both my London properties (owner occupier) without the 'services' of estate agent parasites. Their job is to tell the seller their property really is worth what they've listed it for and to talk the buyer up.
If Germany had any sense about it they'd make the seller pay real estate commissions. Right now for the seller its a free service and they can be as lazy as they want to and make the buyer pay for it.
They used to do this with rental apartments, and changed in 2016 I want to say where he who orders the real estate agent pays for it -- amazingly thereafter many landlords decided it was wise to rent their apartments themselves and not engage a real estate agent. Funny how that works. Thank you for sharing with us