Archive for June 5th, 2009

Finding a flat to rent with Sydney Estate Agents ★★½☆☆

Jun 05, 2009 in reviews

We, like many ex-pats moving to Sydney without the support of an employer’s relocation package, presumed that a couple of weeks would suffice to find the area we wanted to live, and find a flat which ticked most of the boxes.

What we found was not the dog-eat-dog competitive housing market we expected (at least not at the prices we were prepared to pay) but instead a bewilderingly inefficient and downright unprofessional industry. There were a few good eggs out there, but some really rotten ones too, and I run through the headlines in this article.

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