telling them your budget doesn't mean that's your offer price to buy, right? Maybe they just want to know your ballpark figure instead of waste each other time. If they say that's the price, cannot nego further then go look for another unit.

Sometimes got a few agents dealing with the same property, try asking a few.

This post has been edited by idoblu: Sep 2 2016, 04:41 PM

You be surprised how many people actually go see house just for fun or beyond their budget. Now I'm not saying you are and I'm not an agent but I tried selling my own house before, that's how I know.

There is also a reason why some can't reduce their price. For my case, I wanted 1.2m, so I advertised slightly higher than that. I can't advertise 1.3m cause nobody would even look and I can't advertise at 1.2m cause that's my bottom. Anything over a million is not easy to sell. There's not much room for negotiation.

If they ask for your budget, just say a number below their asking price. But don't say few hundred thousand below asking la.

Of course! Every agent on earth will want to hike up the price except for my stupid agent. She put lower than what I wanted.
Some small taman/project they can even pakat to maintain a certain price.

Eventually mine sold by another agent.

What kind of house you looking at? How many storey

Oh I thought you are looking at a particular place, like you already set your target on a particular project.

No need valuation.
Once you narrow down your search, and you are certain of a particular project, then approach your loan officer, they can check passed transaction prices. They can more or less tell you how much loan they can give. At the same time you can also get them to "pre-approve" you